Imposter syndrome?

[GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat]

Anyone suffering with this? I have some anxiety anyway and a recent (very big) work thing has just gone very well for me. I’m happy, to excited to tell people and proud of myself but I keep getting this pit of my stomach feeling. It’s like, shit what if they call me and tell me it’s all been a mistake. What if everyone’s thinking WTF?!

It happened yesterday and this evening I just feel like crying. Not sad tears but just really overwhelmed tears. I don’t know.

Anyone else get like this?

Congratulations, that's amazing! Being overwhelmed is understandable as it's obviously something you're proud of.

I also get imposter syndrome. I always feel like I'll be found out that I'm actually terrible at my job/life etc. It's stopped me from achieving so much more and I always downplay everything.

You've done brilliantly, cry some overwhelmed tears and then celebrate!

That’s exactly it! I have also avoided career progression or change because of the fear.

The people I have told haven’t been surprised, they are very nice and just say ‘well of course!’ But I want people to be surprised. I don’t understand why they aren’t!! I bloody am

Anyone else?

Massively, and a lot of the women I've worked with do as well, at least to some degree.

I've got a senior role and have never had a major setbacks, so no reason to not feel confident.

My strategy is to simply acknowledge it as something my brain does, but that has no relationship to how good I actually am at my job. Just background noise. Works reasonably well.

That’s interesting as technique to deal with it and very similar to the CBT I’ve had to deal with my Anxiety disorder. Acknowledging it, but carrying on anyway. It’s something I’m trying to teach my very shy teenager as well. Fake it ‘till you make it type of attitude.