Erasing Everything You Wrote/Dropping Self Confidence

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I've been trying to start a thread similar to this one for a while, and I start out pretty confident with myself, but I keep loosing confidence in how accurate what I'm saying is, if my facts are accurate, and how accurate my evaluations of myself are, if I'm writing what I mean, and if I'm telling the truth, and I worry that people might think I'm more confident than I actually am as after I think about what I'm writing too much I fell I have no idea what I'm talking about so after I write quite a bit I end up just erasing the entire thing. I keep doing this for posts on other threads as well for the same or similar reasons, and after I make a post I worry about the same stuff. The same thing goes with other social communication, I feel confident at first, but I loose my confidence over time until I feel I should just say nothing. The reasons for the drop in confidence are justified, as I'm often over confident and end up doing something stupid, but I'm under confident just as much, and end up doubting myself even though I was right and I end up missing out on opportunities. Does anyone else feel the same way?

you need to learn to trust your "first" gut instincts, they are the most often right.

doubts fill your head with despair, wondering if your right or wrong, prejudging others just because you don't have an answer from them or for your self. assuming the worst. when the truth is, the world is not about you.

your so afraid, wanting acceptance, when all you honestly need to do, is just join in for a while, and let others get to know you.