UPDATE: wow, never thought this post would take off this much! thanks
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At the expense of simplifying it massively:
You ever been high and got paranoid? Or ever been driving and had a cop drive behind you and get you feeling uncomfortable, like you’ve done something wrong and you’re about to be called out on it?
It’s that. But about everything. It doesn’t matter how reasonable or illogical it may be, you’ll still feel like a big fat faker.
It could be about a job and how you feel like you’re going to get caught out at any moment and shamefully frogmarched out in full view of everyone (despite being a model employee), it could be about your relationship and how your partner is one day going to wake up and realise how you’re totally not what you said you were and they’re off. It could literally be about anything.
It seems strongly related to a fear of shame and embarrassment (to me, at least), but I’m not au fait with the actual definition or how it would be diagnosed and that’s me literally guessing because that’s a prominent component in my potential experience of it.
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