Support Through Life Stressors and Transitions
You do not need to live with a mental health disorder to benefit from therapy. When people go through certain transitional times or face unusual stress, they can have a hard time coping. A licensed therapist can talk you through some of those difficult times and help you avoid unhealthy thought patterns.
What is Imposter Syndrome?
Imposter syndrome is a cognitive distortion that causes people to doubt their skills and accomplishments. This syndrome, which was first identified in 1978 by psychologists Pauline Rose Clance and Suzanne Imes, elicits feelings of self- doubt and personal incompetence that persist despite your education, experience, or accomplishments. People with Imposter Syndrome often feel that they have only succeeded due to luck.
What is Personality Disorder?
Personality disorders are mental illnesses that affect a patient’s ability to form and keep interpersonal relationships, adapt to the changing demands of life, and use healthy behavior patterns. People with disordered personalities often feel as though their behaviors are “normal,” but they struggle with their rigid worldviews and social difficulties.
Like all mental illnesses, a personality disorder disrupts a person’s life. Patients must meet several criteria before they receive a diagnosis of this kind. The psychologist must see deeply embedded behavior patterns that show that the patient’s perceptions, actions, thoughts, and relations with others are severely distorted.
Personality disorders tend to present in the teenage years, and symptoms continue well into adulthood. By middle age, the signs of the disease tend to be less evident than before.