Self-worth & sabotage
Bipolar or neurodivergent? Why I don't think my cycles were mania
How do you know if your mood swings are bipolar? How mania differs from an autistic or ADHD energy cycle, and why only a proper assessment can tell you.
Self-worth & sabotage
Wrecking things when they go well. Boom, crash, fraud feelings.
Self-worth & sabotage
Boom, then crash (my energy cycle)
Why do I start things with huge energy and then crash? What I've learned about hyperfocus, autistic burnout and the boom-and-bust cycle, and what helps.
Self-worth & sabotage
When you hate yourself (what helped me, and where to get help)
What do you do when you hate yourself? What helped me, why self-hatred is often a symptom of something treatable, and where to get help today.
Self-worth & sabotage
Building self-esteem after 50
Can you build self-esteem later in life? Yes. What the research says about self-esteem and age, and what is slowly working for me in my mid-fifties.
Self-worth & sabotage
Imposter syndrome and the neurodivergent brain
Is imposter syndrome worse for autistic and ADHD people? What the research shows, why masking feeds it, and what I've noticed in my own head.
Self-worth & sabotage
Feeling like a fraud at the front of the room
Why do you feel like a fraud even when you succeed? Imposter feelings, what the research says, and why masking autistic adults may feel it hardest.
Self-worth & sabotage
How I'm interrupting my self-sabotage
How do you stop self-sabotaging? What helps me catch the urge to wreck good things, and what psychologists say works, including self-compassion.
Self-worth & sabotage
Fear of success is real
Is fear of success a real thing? Yes. Where the idea comes from, what drives it, and what it looks like in someone who backs away every time things work.
Self-worth & sabotage
Why I wreck things when they go well
Why do people sabotage themselves when things go well? Self-handicapping, low self-esteem and the autistic cost of success, from someone who does it.