Imposter Syndrome talk
@Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town The trick is that everyone is vulnerable to feeling like they're faking it. We question ourselves constantly, and there's no such thing as objectivity. Our senses exist within our mind's eye. We are vulnerable to being tricked that things aren't or are real. Ultimately... I think that as long as your feelings aren't harmful, they are valid and real enough.
Imposter Syndrome talk
it took a long time to recognize that hearing my name from another room was indeed auditory hallucination, not (as my father liked to imagine) my "fantastic imagination" or something. and that my visual hallucinations were not simply 'tricks of light' that everybody had but nobody reacted to.
(and that's not to call Otherkin stuff or furstuff or anystuff mental illnesses, that's not a thing I'd say or a thing I believe)
Imposter Syndrome talk
@BigFatFae @Ulfra_Wolfe
everybody coherent who I've ever talked to long enough in the MH system has admitted, on some level, that they feel like they're 'not really <diagnosis>' or their symptom isn't 'really severe enough' or their undiagnosed issues are 'maybe not really there'
even my doctors with their symptoms/diagnoses/issues
even me