[I reply multiple times to comments with multiple independent critiques of my post]
>and it’s because we have a lot of our self-image riding on it, not because we’re chronically depressed.
This whole piece is about how people are wrong. Are people usually right about knowing they’re not depressed? (People around them? Their coworkers?)
Depression was the wrong word. My coworkers may be depressed and I don’t quite know if I’d notice. But if depression were the reason they doubted themselves endlessly, there’d be no reason to invent “imposter syndrome” except to describe a symptom of depression.
Although, as someone who was hospitalized because of depression, most of the people who have described themselves as former (or current) imposter syndrome sufferers did not seem to be depressed before self-diagnosis.
[I reply multiple times to comments with multiple independent critiques of my post]
Depression was the wrong word. My coworkers may be depressed and I don’t quite know if I’d notice. But if depression were the reason they doubted themselves endlessly, there’d be no reason to invent “imposter syndrome” except to describe a symptom of depression.
Although, as someone who was hospitalized because of depression, most of the people who have described themselves as former (or current) imposter syndrome sufferers did not seem to be depressed before self-diagnosis.