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Jun 7, 2022 · If you’re feeling inadequate in general—or about something in particular—research shows that a number of strategies can help you feel better: Modify your expectations and ideals.
- Why Do I Feel So Inadequate?
As adults, armed with education on emotions and how...
- Why Do I Feel So Inadequate?
Mar 16, 2021 · An inferiority complex is when you feel personally inadequate, deficient, and inferior. Typically, this is measured against peer groups and other people. However, you may have feelings of inadequacy even if you don't suffer from an inferiority complex.
- Roots of Inadequacy
- Signs and Symptoms
- How Therapy Can Help Inadequacy
- Case Example
There are many events in life that can contribute to feelings of inadequacy, from childhood neglect to workplace harassment. Most often, feelings of inadequacy are rooted in childhood experiences, like having had overly critical parents, cruel peers, shaming authority figures, or, perhaps, having not had opportunities to engage in positive, challen...
The experience of inadequacy leads people to view themselves negatively in a number of ways, and they often assume that other people view them in the same manner. Some people enter intimate relationships with the expectation (often subconsciously) that their partners will fill that void, or that simply being in a relationship will cause them to vie...
Therapists help people uncover and address childhood experiences that lie at the source of negative feelings in order to recover from them. Working with a therapist, people identify their assets and expand upon them; clients learn how to acknowledge their strengths and minimize their weaknesses so that they can feel confidentand adequate, regardles...
Inadequacy and depression: Jessica, 44, enters therapy for a moderate, persistent depression, recently exacerbated when she lost her job. The therapist helps Jessica uncover deep feelings of inadequacy, which they trace to her childhood; her father was emotionally abusive, and her mother was stifling, keeping her home all the time and preventing he...
May 20, 2018 · As adults, armed with education on emotions and how childhood adversity affects the brain, we can understand that feeling "not enough" is a byproduct of an environment that was insufficient. We...
- Hilary Jacobs Hendel LCSW
Aug 1, 2021 · Psychologists say the deluge of attractive posts can trigger feelings of inferiority or inadequacy, especially among young people with less experience to differentiate the social media world...
Jul 17, 2021 · Changes can make you both scared and overwhelmed. Things like getting a new job, going to a new school, or losing a friend, can shake you to your core. These feelings of inadequacy can often start with some significant changes in your life, and they can stick around for the long haul.
Jun 23, 2014 · For people who define themselves as socially awkward, the perceived risk of being seen in endlessly negative ways—inadequate, ugly, boring, stupid, anxious, depressed, empty, arrogant, fat,...
