Impostor syndrome
The feeling that you haven't earned your place and that sooner or later others will discover you aren't that capable.
How it shows up in daily life
You attribute success to luck, circumstances or extra effort. You attribute failure to yourself. Because you don’t accept evidence of your ability, accumulating more doesn’t remove it — which is why more successful people often feel it more, not less.
What we do with it in therapy
We work on how you process evidence about yourself in the first place, not on gathering more of it. Along the way we often meet a family message that praise is dangerous or that standing out isn’t allowed.
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See also
Systemic therapy
An approach that understands a difficulty within a web of relationships rather than within the individual alone.
Executive functions
The group of capacities that make planning, starting, switching and inhibiting possible.
Impermanence
The awareness that time is limited — a source of anxiety and, at once, one of the strongest sorters of priorities.
