The first serious fall after limb loss can shake confidence badly. Sometimes the physical injury is minor. The mental effect is larger.
Suddenly every curb looks suspicious. Every wet floor feels dangerous. Every uneven patch of ground becomes something to calculate.
That caution makes sense. But fear can become restrictive if it convinces you that the safest life is one where you stop trying anything uncertain.
Falling is not proof that you cannot do something. It is information.
What happened? Were you tired? Was the surface bad? Did equipment fail? Did you rush? Did you misjudge something? Could another technique help?
Nobody wants to fall. The goal is not pretending it does not matter. The goal is refusing to turn one fall into permanent permission for fear to run your schedule.
Confidence after a fall usually returns through smaller successful experiences. You get up. You move again. You remind your nervous system that one event was not the entire future.
And if you fell in public and immediately looked around to see who noticed before checking whether you were injured, congratulations. You are extremely human.