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Therapy for sure. I’m in my 8th year of practice and second year in house and I still often doubt myself. A few things I’ve learned in therapy:
1. Not knowing everything isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It means you are learning and challenging yourself. So the day you know everything is the day your job gets permanently boring. I still question what I know every day, but I don’t associate “what I don’t know yet” with my overall competence.
2. Imposter syndrome is often the result of an underlying need to have external validation because you tie your overall worth to your work. But you are much more than that. And I do think as we age and grow our relationships/families, perspective helps us all to realize there are more important things that we contribute to in life meaningfully, aside from our work. And I am sure the same is true for you!
Super weird that I blacked out & forgot writing this post because this has to be me… But in all seriousness, I’m a 5th year and feel precisely this way. No great suggestions - just commiseration. But I do like this reframing of imposter syndrome that I saw floating around Tumblr:
Unironically, this reframing has been more helpful in confronting my imposter syndrome than years of therapy
Pro
Therapy!
(Continued) But when I read up on it, I think I fall within the “perfectionist” category and it can lead to self-fulfilling prophecies and actually make me a worse performer. We’re all anxious and stressed from this profession, but how do I overcome this? Is it just a time thing? I feel as a 5th year I shouldn’t be doubting myself anymore.
You sound like me 😭😅
I once tried some help on this. I read a book called “Yes, You Are Good Enough” it had a giant list of things that I would be feeling if I had imposter syndrome. I only resonated with two things on the list and then put the book down. So I guess it worked.