Does running away from imposter syndrome ever work?

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Feeling overwhelmed at work. I'm constantly feeling like I don't know enough and am not good enough. I have to try to pretend I know what I'm doing, but am just waiting for the next mistake to happen. I beat myself up about things (minor, major and often not issues at all). Already on A/Ds for anxiety. Does leaving your job and going for something less responsible ever work, or do you just end up worrying about other aspects of a more mundane job??
(For context - I'm highly qualified and experienced in my field and get great feedback, I make mistakes as often as a regular person I think, but still feel like I'm waiting for everyone to realise I know nothing, which is why I've self diagnosed imposter syndrome).
Does running away from this ever work?

Have you heard of the Peter Principle? It’s the idea that people can get promoted to the level of their incompetence. It’s a huge problem in the civil service for instance, or any organisation that makes it difficult to step down a level. And it can be a factor in jobs where promotion can mean managing a team, with no actual management training, based on your performance at a hands on job.

In those kinds of cases, it can be helpful to step back, or at the very least seek training or to augment skills.

But if the imposter feeling is more pervasive, and occurs in every role or different aspects of your life, then counselling might be more helpful.

Would love to know this too. I'm hoping that if you can remember times in your working life when you didn't feel like this, then it should be possible to get back to that. I know I have felt confident I was up to the job in previous roles, so clinging on to the fact that I can recover that.

I've not heard of the Peter Principle, but I'll look it up. I don't have to manage other people in my job now, but I have before and I actually felt much happier in that role. I've gone up the ladder to essentially a desk bound job (from home) so also feel very unsupported, when previously working in an office has been sociable and situations could be discussed as a team. I feel very remote now, and my decisions and their consequences lie just with me. The working from home won't change, but there should be more meetings/training etc in person as covid restrictions ease. I'm wondering if that may help.
Thank you for your replies