Imposter Sydrome
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
United States
May 25, 2021 1:58pm CST
To put it simply, imposter syndrome is the experience of feeling like a phony—you feel as though at any moment you are going to be found out as a fraud—like you don't belong where you are, and you only got there through dumb luck. - Copied from the interwebs via VeryWellMind.com
That's how I am feeling lately. I guess you might say it started yesterday, but it really seems to be hitting today.
I just tried crocheting something and messed up. This WAS the first time I used this technique though I have used similar. I kept going, but I'm not satisfied with it. I know this is okay, that it was the first try and I DID WELL but that doesn't stop me from feeling like fraud.
I know this too shall pass, but at the moment I guess I'm sitting in these feelings.
Do you ever feel this way?
Reference for those who want to learn more :
https://www.verywellmind.com/imposter-syndrome-and-social-anxiety-disorder-4156469#:~:text=%20A%20few%20different%20types%20of%20imposter%20syndrome,These%20individuals%20are%20always%20trying%20to...%20More%20
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
25 May 21
I think you are right. We just have to let it pass when it will.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
25 May 21
@Nevena83 Today I feel as if my mind is blanking a lot. I start to think and I can not get the thought to complete. It feels like I am forcing it, you know?
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@Nevena83 (65280)
• Serbia
25 May 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum Yes, we often try to fight bad emotions, and then it happens to get worse, I just think it takes time.
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@Tina30219 (81545)
• Onaway, Michigan
26 May 21
It will pass. As for your crocheting project like you said it is the first time doing this pattern so give it time.
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@Tina30219 (81545)
• Onaway, Michigan
26 May 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum Your welcome I hope you sell tons when you post them
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
26 May 21
@Tina30219 I hope so. I have a hobby lobby order coming on Friday. I may do some crocheting tonight, but today I focused more on finishing a big pillow for myself.
Might list a few things that were my moms that I tried to sell to the thrift store and they didn't take.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
26 May 21
Thank You!
Oh and thank you for all the pretty things you've tagged me in. It's given me some inspiration. I think I am going to try to do some market bags again, using a different pattern than what I was doing before and list them.
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.@much2say (53944)
• Los Angeles, California
25 May 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum We are our own hardest critics. Sorry about the stress . . . that one I definitely feel but have not shared here. Life is ball of insanity sometimes. Oh, camping sounds great - I hope you can go. Change of scenery and activities is good 
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
25 May 21
@much2say Right. I try to keep my life private on here now, at least for the most part. Still, sometimes one needs to just vent.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
25 May 21
Right. I'm telling myself at least I tried. It's tying in to a lot of stress I'm feeling at the moment too. Might be going camping this weekend (still haven't rightly decided) and if I do, that will be a good time to just unwind.
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@moffittjc (118611)
• Gainesville, Florida
26 May 21
I got promoted up to an agency director position at a very young age, not many years removed from the bumbling college drunk I was. Most of my peers were much older, most approaching retirement age, so I felt like a fraud for being in the position at such a young age. I had to work extra hard just to prove myself, but in the end it paid off.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
26 May 21
I bet those older peers didn't help much. They were probably a little resentful for how fast you moved up, wherein it took them years to get to the positions they were in.
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@moffittjc (118611)
• Gainesville, Florida
26 May 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum Most of them were pretty nice about it, and very welcoming, but you're right, there were some who felt I didn't belong in the big boys club.
@LindaOHio (157506)
• United States
26 May 21
I hope that feeling passes because you are certainly not a fraud. Sometimes I used to wonder how I was given the position I had at various companies -- I even had my own business at one point -- and I suppose I felt like a fraud too...but it didn't upset me.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
26 May 21
I do feel better this morning. I have a plan of action for the day, and well I am starting my day coloring. That really helps me focus.
How was cleaning day yesterday?
I think we all feel like frauds at one point in our life. It's human nature for us to compare ourselves to others, and yet therein lies the problem.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
26 May 21
@LindaOHio I will look for that then. Seems like you accomplished a lot. We have big trash day coming up, so really I need to get started looking through what I can.
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@LindaOHio (157506)
• United States
26 May 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum I'm glad you feel better. I wrote an update about yesterday. We put away a whole bunch of clothes, donated about 1/2 of a garbage bag full and threw away some that were not suitable for donation.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
25 May 21
It certainly can. I am going to try to take today to just reflect on what I have accomplished. Might color after while, haven't done that at all today.
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@CarolDM (203451)
• Nashville, Tennessee
25 May 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum Sounds good.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
25 May 21
@CarolDM Maybe a movie later.
Oh and I do think that One Chicago Wednesday is happening this week. For some reason I thought it was an off week, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
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@RebeccasFarm (86841)
• United States
25 May 21
I do not get these feelings Amber, but I can understand them.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
26 May 21
Thank You. I've learned over the years that the best way for me to get over them is to be honest about them. I tell mylot sometimes, but even when I don't, I tell my closest friends. They (the friends) usually tell me they love me, that the feeling will pass and that they are here if I need a hug or someone to talk to.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
26 May 21
Thank You!
I am feeling better today. This morning I woke up and felt like today would be a productive day. It's only 8:18 but I am already well into my routine.
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@thelme55 (76481)
• Germany
27 May 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum You are welcome. I just came in on Mylot. I was so busy today and now it is almost midnight. I will be interacting more tomorrow. I am glad you feel better now.
@cperry2 (5608)
• Newport, Oregon
26 May 21
As a writer, I find myself in this situation often. Sometimes I cannot believe I wrote what I did. Not feeling I am good enough to have put that piece together. I understand it is a common affliction for writers, even Neil Gaiman claims to have bouts of it hit him.
What I do is shake my head and start writing again.
