My posts about Impostor Syndrome – feeling like a fake no matter how well you succeed.
A few years ago I wrote a series of posts about Impostor Syndrome. It occurs to me that people might not have seen those, and so I’ve decided to put this post up linking to all four of those.
I know some other people have been having trouble with it lately. I thought it might help. I hope that if this is something troubling you, it helps you a little.
Another part of the Fighting the Impostor process for me is this one: Watch your language.
I’ve been doing this. Well, working on this.
In my last post, I talked about one of the things I need to work on to deal with my (admittedly self-diagnosed) Impostor Syndrome. And I do want to stress that – this is not me diagnosed with anything other than depression and anxiety. But it does express itself in that way, so I’m using that term for my issues. That may change at some point.
Today’s issue to deal with: Practice accepting compliments.
A few days ago I wrote about Impostor Syndrome and how it’s affected me. Shortly after I found a video of this talk from Denise Paolucci at dreamwidth.org about it. Two things from it stuck out for me, and I decided to expand on them more, from my point of view. I’m going to do them separately so that I can give them each the attention they deserve.
The psychological experience of believing that one’s accomplishments came about not through genuine ability, but as a result of having been lucky, having worked harder than others, or having manipulated other people’s impressions, has been labeled the impostor phenomenon.
Thank you, Wikipedia.