After Chritmas, I accidentally did something that angered my supervisor at work. For most of the month of January and part of February, my supervisor was very mean to me at least 2-3 times per week. Stuff like sending me nasty emails, picking at my work, attacking my work ethic. It was horrible on my anxiety. I cried from the time I got home, and then couldn't sleep at night. I thought about quitting my job. I got depressed. I didn't think it would ever stop, and I need this job. The straw that broke the camel's back was a mean email she sent saying that my work looked "amateur" and that "competitors were enjoying these errors." She was very condescending in the email, and totally wrong about what she was complaining about. So, I decided that I had to stand up for myself. I had her come in to my office (my territory) and told her that she was wrong, that I had no way of knowing that she wanted the project done a certain way because she never communicated that, and that I had done my research before completing it. The whole time I forced myself to look her in the eye, raise my voice to a dominant level, and keep my posture upright. She backed down almost immediately. As of today it will have been 14 days (work days) since she has been rude to me. She has actually been noticeably nicer. I didn't even have to give her the whole "do not speak to me that way" line like I had been practicing. Quite frankly, I am bamboozled that this worked. I thought I would have to do this multiple times. But no. This has been such a huge improvement in my life and my anxiety has been much better (even better than it was before she started acting out). I think it's because my anxiety isn't always telling me that I'm weak anymore and making me terrified of standing up for myself. I did it and it worked. I still have some bad days, but I no longer dread going in to work every day.