6 Signs You Might Have Impostor Syndrome
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Date: 2023-08-20
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Hey Psych2Go, thank you for your amazing content, I really appriciate it. I have one question, what is the name of the feeling that you don't know anything? Like when somebody feels like they know something but then it's the exact opposite? It happens almost every time (if not without the almost part.
For context: Lucas (random name) feel like knowing something for example 2 + 2 = 8, then another person asks What's 2 + 2? and Lucas says As this guide states, 2 + 2 = 8. At that moment Lucas feels like he is someone that finally, after a long time, they could help somebody to solve a problem, but then bunch of people says No, 2 + 2 = 4 and again You're wrong, 2 + 2 = 4, and again It's like they said: 2 + 2 = 4. Then Lucas came back to reality, I mean, they feel failure, they feel like they will never ever be able to do something, because they don't know anything, anything at all, all is there is now shame and even the shame of living a life they feel like don't deserving because they can't even answer that really simple question.
So, do you have any ideas of what this is? How is it called? Thanks in advance, again thank you for your amazing content (and sorry if my example is really messy. If you did read all this text to here you're amazing, if not you're amazing anyways.
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Hey Psych2Go, thank you for your amazing content, I really appriciate it. I have one question, what is the name of the feeling that you don't know anything? Like when somebody feels like they know something but then it's the exact opposite? It happens almost every time (if not without the almost part.
For context: Lucas (random name) feel like knowing something for example 2 + 2 = 8, then another person asks What's 2 + 2? and Lucas says As this guide states, 2 + 2 = 8. At that moment Lucas feels like he is someone that finally, after a long time, they could help somebody to solve a problem, but then bunch of people says No, 2 + 2 = 4 and again You're wrong, 2 + 2 = 4, and again It's like they said: 2 + 2 = 4. Then Lucas came back to reality, I mean, they feel failure, they feel like they will never ever be able to do something, because they don't know anything, anything at all, all is there is now shame and even the shame of living a life they feel like don't deserving because they can't even answer that really simple question.
So, do you have any ideas of what this is? How is it called? Thanks in advance, again thank you for your amazing content (and sorry if my example is really messy. If you did read all this text to here you're amazing, if not you're amazing anyways.
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Coral
I do show some of those signs, but the reason why I watched this video was another one: I'm in a very close friendship with someone right now (we've been friends for around a year) and I have some problems. Most of the time everything works well, but I've made some mistakes in the past. Now because of those mistakes, I find myself shutting my friend out, trying to convince them they'd be better off without me. And sometimes even being inpolite in the hope that this will drive them away. I'm just very unsure what to do in this situation, and its very hard for me to see if maybe my friend is even manipulating me somehow. I just dont know at all who is in the right, whether my problems are valid and if my mistakes are really bad or actually no mistakes at all.
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I do show some of those signs, but the reason why I watched this video was another one: I'm in a very close friendship with someone right now (we've been friends for around a year) and I have some problems. Most of the time everything works well, but I've made some mistakes in the past. Now because of those mistakes, I find myself shutting my friend out, trying to convince them they'd be better off without me. And sometimes even being inpolite in the hope that this will drive them away. I'm just very unsure what to do in this situation, and its very hard for me to see if maybe my friend is even manipulating me somehow. I just dont know at all who is in the right, whether my problems are valid and if my mistakes are really bad or actually no mistakes at all.
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bs
I've been struggling from this impostor syndrome (possibly) so much since I've started college but sadly I don't have access to a professional therapist. I went from a cheerful, bubbly, social butterfly, class topper in highschool to a depressed suicidal possibly mediocre college student. I feel like stabbing myself to death when the fear of failure gets too overwhelming.
About the first point, I do believe that luck has favoured me on my path of success more than hardwork, however, I don't believe that I don't deserve any success. I'm not that humble. In fact, I sometimes believe I deserve more and get frustrated when I see my peers in college doing better than me. What's wrong with me?
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I've been struggling from this impostor syndrome (possibly) so much since I've started college but sadly I don't have access to a professional therapist. I went from a cheerful, bubbly, social butterfly, class topper in highschool to a depressed suicidal possibly mediocre college student. I feel like stabbing myself to death when the fear of failure gets too overwhelming.
About the first point, I do believe that luck has favoured me on my path of success more than hardwork, however, I don't believe that I don't deserve any success. I'm not that humble. In fact, I sometimes believe I deserve more and get frustrated when I see my peers in college doing better than me. What's wrong with me?
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Anakin
wait does imposter syndrome apply to mental illness? cuz i've genuinely been having a LOT of anxiety and schizophrenia symptoms recently but people i know and love have shunned me for it and said i'm just faking it for attention when i don't think i am, but then what i am faking it? what if i'm just mentally stable and trying to gaslight myself to fit in with the all lgbtq+ teens are mentally ill stereotype, but then i DO get hallucinations and delusions, i DO get panic attacks, but because i express my panic attacks through anger and stress more than hyperventilating and shaking and and crying struggling to speak, i feel like i'm faking them
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wait does imposter syndrome apply to mental illness? cuz i've genuinely been having a LOT of anxiety and schizophrenia symptoms recently but people i know and love have shunned me for it and said i'm just faking it for attention when i don't think i am, but then what i am faking it? what if i'm just mentally stable and trying to gaslight myself to fit in with the all lgbtq+ teens are mentally ill stereotype, but then i DO get hallucinations and delusions, i DO get panic attacks, but because i express my panic attacks through anger and stress more than hyperventilating and shaking and and crying struggling to speak, i feel like i'm faking them
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Eclipse_Eternal
When I was doing my GCSEs I was going through a stage of freezing up when I was doing exams and on the day of the final exam for English I froze and practically wrote nothing later on when I got my results I saw that I had passed English and I know that I passed it realistically due to me showing before hand through multiple good exam scores that I could pass but I still feel like a fraud and I feel like I only passed it out of sympathy and just got lucky that it was teacher assigned grades (eventhough they have to present evidence)
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When I was doing my GCSEs I was going through a stage of freezing up when I was doing exams and on the day of the final exam for English I froze and practically wrote nothing later on when I got my results I saw that I had passed English and I know that I passed it realistically due to me showing before hand through multiple good exam scores that I could pass but I still feel like a fraud and I feel like I only passed it out of sympathy and just got lucky that it was teacher assigned grades (eventhough they have to present evidence)
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Coco
O relate ro all these symptoms toooooo deeply and i always try to question my bad sad thoughts thinking that i shouldn't feel this way because u don't have the right to do so. Last year studied so hard and eventually i took good grades not excellent but it was definitely better than before. guess what when o got the news i felt like i don't deserve it. like o never worked for it and i even started to question my efforts and i believed that the teachers were easy on me and they helped me
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O relate ro all these symptoms toooooo deeply and i always try to question my bad sad thoughts thinking that i shouldn't feel this way because u don't have the right to do so. Last year studied so hard and eventually i took good grades not excellent but it was definitely better than before. guess what when o got the news i felt like i don't deserve it. like o never worked for it and i even started to question my efforts and i believed that the teachers were easy on me and they helped me
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Afrina
All of the 6 symptoms match me. I am in my 30s, I recently heard about this and came here to verify this.
I have 3 Master's degrees, one in Pure Physics, one in Nuclear Physics, and one in Finance n Banking.
I have recently defended my doctoral dissertation in applied material science.
I worked for five different lucrative jobs altogether since I was 23
I feel I do not know anything, for example, I do not know coding much, and I am planning to learn it soon!
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All of the 6 symptoms match me. I am in my 30s, I recently heard about this and came here to verify this.
I have 3 Master's degrees, one in Pure Physics, one in Nuclear Physics, and one in Finance n Banking.
I have recently defended my doctoral dissertation in applied material science.
I worked for five different lucrative jobs altogether since I was 23
I feel I do not know anything, for example, I do not know coding much, and I am planning to learn it soon!
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PJServo
Recently I did wonder if this might be the case for me but I'm not 100% sure. I mean on one hand I don't think I ever really viewed myself as a fraud per say but on the other hand I.
- Can get overwhelmed somewhat easily due to my overthinking
- Be plagued with self-doubt about what I can do
- I've had to remind myself that I can and have actually accomplished things before more than once.
And things like that.
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Recently I did wonder if this might be the case for me but I'm not 100% sure. I mean on one hand I don't think I ever really viewed myself as a fraud per say but on the other hand I.
- Can get overwhelmed somewhat easily due to my overthinking
- Be plagued with self-doubt about what I can do
- I've had to remind myself that I can and have actually accomplished things before more than once.
And things like that.
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education
I work in research and when I make mistakes in a field I didnt go to college for, I have trouble sleeping and get heart palpitations from the stress. Its ridiculous. I try to convince my brain its fine because everything I know I just self-read with no guidance, but my brain also tells me, I shouldve known it all along, and I should know everything like the back of my hand after 3 years of studying it.
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I work in research and when I make mistakes in a field I didnt go to college for, I have trouble sleeping and get heart palpitations from the stress. Its ridiculous. I try to convince my brain its fine because everything I know I just self-read with no guidance, but my brain also tells me, I shouldve known it all along, and I should know everything like the back of my hand after 3 years of studying it.
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Karina
I put myself into an art uni and now this is my entire life yayyy. Each and every point is something I say, think and feel on a daily if not hourly basis. I both procrastinate to the extreme and am a perfectionist to the extreme. Scared to start but when I do I overwork a simple assignment and have no time to finish the rest of my project. I wanna throw up with the stress I'm feeling even as I write this
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I put myself into an art uni and now this is my entire life yayyy. Each and every point is something I say, think and feel on a daily if not hourly basis. I both procrastinate to the extreme and am a perfectionist to the extreme. Scared to start but when I do I overwork a simple assignment and have no time to finish the rest of my project. I wanna throw up with the stress I'm feeling even as I write this
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zWLF
I struggle with imposter syndrome because I procrastinate and Im lazy so I always think that I dont deserve the life I was given, if I could, I would give it to someone who dreams of it. My two younger sisters are better than me in many things and I just hope and know they wont end up like me at all. A loser who is depressed and does nothing to make changes in their life.
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I struggle with imposter syndrome because I procrastinate and Im lazy so I always think that I dont deserve the life I was given, if I could, I would give it to someone who dreams of it. My two younger sisters are better than me in many things and I just hope and know they wont end up like me at all. A loser who is depressed and does nothing to make changes in their life.
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Paige
I don't deserve food. Let alone whatever it was she said, and I'm both a procrastinator and a perfectionist tell me how this works? I'm waiting for the day everyone can see what I see, can see me for how I see myself. I'm surprised no one has noticed. And I've been 'diagnosed' with RSD, So I'm well aware I'm scared of failure. Crippled by it at times.
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I don't deserve food. Let alone whatever it was she said, and I'm both a procrastinator and a perfectionist tell me how this works? I'm waiting for the day everyone can see what I see, can see me for how I see myself. I'm surprised no one has noticed. And I've been 'diagnosed' with RSD, So I'm well aware I'm scared of failure. Crippled by it at times.
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Lilromierome
2 Years late but after these passed 5 Years I realized how bad this can make me feel. I Teach Drumline, Coach, Make Projects, and Compete in Powerlifting and all those things bring out all those signs mentioned in the video. I feel like it got worse over the years as projects and goals become bigger, but talking about it does help
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2 Years late but after these passed 5 Years I realized how bad this can make me feel. I Teach Drumline, Coach, Make Projects, and Compete in Powerlifting and all those things bring out all those signs mentioned in the video. I feel like it got worse over the years as projects and goals become bigger, but talking about it does help
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Gecko20
Wow I hit all of them genuinely I dont remember I time that I havent felt like I deserved the result of my work
Got other thing weighing me down at the same time but yeahhh im planning the next time I feel extremely down, which due to stress is pretty common right now to see the student welfare place in my uni
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Wow I hit all of them genuinely I dont remember I time that I havent felt like I deserved the result of my work
Got other thing weighing me down at the same time but yeahhh im planning the next time I feel extremely down, which due to stress is pretty common right now to see the student welfare place in my uni
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Lady
What if you fear being found out as a bad human or evil? Work success is one thing buy being afraid that your family will figure out that you are not worthy of their love. They tell you how sweet you are and how much they love you but deep down you are so scared that they will figure out you are a phony
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What if you fear being found out as a bad human or evil? Work success is one thing buy being afraid that your family will figure out that you are not worthy of their love. They tell you how sweet you are and how much they love you but deep down you are so scared that they will figure out you are a phony
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yung
I know this isn't a proffesional diagnosis but im really young and i experience everything that is said here especcialy the i dont feel like i deserve what ive gotten. But im too scared to tell anyone in fear of them not helping and worsening it and ive been keeping these emotions for a very long time.
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I know this isn't a proffesional diagnosis but im really young and i experience everything that is said here especcialy the i dont feel like i deserve what ive gotten. But im too scared to tell anyone in fear of them not helping and worsening it and ive been keeping these emotions for a very long time.
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A.
Yep. I graduated with a bachelor's degree in nursing and I feel like i only graduated because I somehow slipped through the system undetected or that i was just at the right place at the right time and got a teacher who wasn't strict.
I can't even look at my diploma because i feel like a fraud.
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Yep. I graduated with a bachelor's degree in nursing and I feel like i only graduated because I somehow slipped through the system undetected or that i was just at the right place at the right time and got a teacher who wasn't strict.
I can't even look at my diploma because i feel like a fraud.
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Its
Do you feel really ashamed or humiliated when you fail at something?
You dont? Hm.
That one is going in my notes
Things wrong with me
1, 891. ADHD
1, 892. Imposter syndrome
If I listed my symptoms on the list this comment would be long and my notes would go to 1, 895
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Do you feel really ashamed or humiliated when you fail at something?
You dont? Hm.
That one is going in my notes
Things wrong with me
1, 891. ADHD
1, 892. Imposter syndrome
If I listed my symptoms on the list this comment would be long and my notes would go to 1, 895
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Robert
Question: is it imposter syndrome if someone quits something because they get to much praise for it? Or is it something else? Example, I have a friend that stopped playing piano, guitar, singing, jobs, and even hobbies because someone told them they're really good at it.
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Question: is it imposter syndrome if someone quits something because they get to much praise for it? Or is it something else? Example, I have a friend that stopped playing piano, guitar, singing, jobs, and even hobbies because someone told them they're really good at it.
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Alien. medicine
Does imposter syndrome also count as feeling like people feel bad for you, like the only reason they want to talk to me or anything like that is because they have pity or they dont want to hurt my feelings. I feel like everyone treats me like a freak
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Does imposter syndrome also count as feeling like people feel bad for you, like the only reason they want to talk to me or anything like that is because they have pity or they dont want to hurt my feelings. I feel like everyone treats me like a freak
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Damian
I have an impostor syndrome. All my life people were telling me that I am not good enough or the things I do are pointless and I started to believe it. Today I am to scared and to lazy to do anything to move on because I just know it'll be for nothing.
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I have an impostor syndrome. All my life people were telling me that I am not good enough or the things I do are pointless and I started to believe it. Today I am to scared and to lazy to do anything to move on because I just know it'll be for nothing.
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Mr.
Anyone else come here because you just needed some fellow imposters to relate to.
And yes youre valid if you think you dont have imposter syndrome because youre not good enough to have it. Now youre having imposter syndrome of the imposter syndrome
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Anyone else come here because you just needed some fellow imposters to relate to.
And yes youre valid if you think you dont have imposter syndrome because youre not good enough to have it. Now youre having imposter syndrome of the imposter syndrome
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never
Im kind of both a perfectionist and procrastinator. If I dont think I can do it perfect I dont want to do it. For most things
For things Im passionate i procrastinate doing it and then once I do I best myself up if I notice its not perfect
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Im kind of both a perfectionist and procrastinator. If I dont think I can do it perfect I dont want to do it. For most things
For things Im passionate i procrastinate doing it and then once I do I best myself up if I notice its not perfect
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axolotl
I've suffered from IS most of my life as an artist, musician & author. Other people enjoying my work seems odd to me because I don't like a lot of my own work, and compliments make me uncomfortable and feel fake.
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I've suffered from IS most of my life as an artist, musician & author. Other people enjoying my work seems odd to me because I don't like a lot of my own work, and compliments make me uncomfortable and feel fake.
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4GVN
I dont know if this is what I have yall just naming random people activities and grouping them idk but I wanna load up in a car and never look back its coming crashing down soon and I dont want to be here to see it.
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I dont know if this is what I have yall just naming random people activities and grouping them idk but I wanna load up in a car and never look back its coming crashing down soon and I dont want to be here to see it.
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