Feelings and self-understanding

Imposter Syndrome: Why Recognition Makes You More Anxious

Imposter syndrome is when your achievements do not feel like the result of your own ability. Why it gets worse as you achieve more, who tends to experience it, and how to handle it.

Social Anxiety: Why You Tense Up in Front of People

A racing heart and trouble speaking in front of people is not a sign of a timid personality. When it gets worse, how it differs from introversion, and where personality ends and treatment begins.

Preferring to Be Alone: A Problem or Just Personality?

If meeting people tires you and being alone feels comfortable, it is most likely personality. But being alone by choice is different from being alone because you avoid people. How to tell the two apart.

Loneliness: Why You Can Feel It Even Around People

Loneliness does not come from being alone. People feel it in a crowd too. What is missing when this feeling appears and how to ease it.

Choosing a Career: What to Base the Decision On

Being unable to choose a career is often not about a lack of information but about not knowing what to base the choice on. Whether to follow what you love or what you are good at.

Trouble Falling Asleep: Nights When Your Mind Will Not Stop

About lying down only to find your thoughts multiplying and sleep not coming. Why it gets worse at night, what to change, and when to see a doctor.

Why Compliments Make You Uncomfortable, and Why It Is Not Modesty

About feeling awkward rather than grateful when complimented, and wanting to change the subject quickly. Why it happens, how it differs from modesty, and how to accept a compliment.

Fear of Change: Why It Is Not Laziness

About being unable to change even when you know it would be better. Why losses feel bigger, who finds change harder, and how to start.