Are You Suffering From Inferiority Complex?

An Inferiority Complex is a psychological phenomenon characterized by an individual's persistent feelings of inadequacy, self-doubt, and a belief that they are inherently inferior to others. This often results in low self-esteem, anxiety, and can hinder personal and professional growth. Are You Suffering From Inferiority Complex? Watch this video to find out.

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[neofulcrum]

Growing up with Low self esteem, you’ll be in your head so much and think you’re never good enough.

[damnablethief]

I got bullied as a kid, at least until I messed a couple of dudes up. But even though I've done all these cool things with my life, and have a ton of viable skills, I still struggle a lot with this. Especially in dating. Like nothing I do will ever be good enough. This is helpful, thanks.

[KhoiruunisaRF]

"Comparison is not a tool to measure your worth as a person. It simply tells you where you can improve" Well said

[wayneheidlebaugh]

Growing up with an abusive father was a real life nightmare! Even my big brother would try to force me into doing the jobs our father specifically wanted him to do, also he would sometimes bully me just for the fun of it. My step sister was much worse. When I first started going to school, all the other kids harassed bullied me constantly every day and there was noting I could do about it! If I did anything to defend myself I always ended up in trouble for it even if I was doing the same thing they were doing to me! Yet the others are never in trouble for it! My only explanation was that they did it to me first, why are they not in trouble? I was beat up by them on numerous occasions and nothing was done about it! I started thinking School was a place that parents sent their bad kids. I would ask my mother what was it I did to deserve being sent there and she would say she sent me there to be educated. She never could understand what was happening to me. My father though what ever was happening to me I deserved it. There was nothing else I could do but just let it happen and just take it.

[cartoonperson]

Unfortunately, if your inferiority is based on constant failure, you need a path that leads to success...if you cannot find that path then regardless of how your mind works, you'll still feel and act inferior....

[msboon]

Over thinking your place in society is more of a problem. Everyone is + or - . Its the judging. Life is not a scoreboard. Its a bubble to fill up with experience. Your experience is important. You are the best you ever made.

[SitaRaman-sfxy]

I always feel inferior because no matter how hard i try, how much efforts i put into my work, there is always someone who can do it better.

[offrails]

I've had an inferiority complex pretty much since I was a young kid. Getting picked on by classmates and siblings likely contributed to that as well as criticism from peers, teachers, etc.. At school I was a terrible athlete and didn't know how to make friends, so I just accepted that I was the "outcast"' at my school and knew from Day 1 of high school that no girl would ever want to go to prom with me. The scars still affect me to this day, and while I've made some strides in my life, I still have a very fragile self-esteem

[JBarista]

As a person who's been suffering this for a year and a half, ever since I started interacting with more talented artists my age online and having to be stuck at boarding school with a few toxic people taking 3/4s of the year all together and of which has ruined my self esteem as an artist but thankfully improving on it, i've gotta pysch2go, this vid has been long overdue

[theotherway]

So many of us, if not all, have been conditioned from childhood to be anxious about other peoples' expectations, worries, and demands. It's almost like we can trace all of our worries and anxious thoughts back to other people teaching us to give them priority in the mind. Books like "30 Days to Reduce Anxiety" by Harper Daniels and other mindfulness related books can be good for detaching from the conditioned thoughts. I just try my best not to condition other people or enable their conditioning any further. We need to be so much nicer to ourselves and kinder.

[CryingAutumn]

I refuse to accept that I’m not useless.

Also my cat is laying on the floor and purring

[sarry]

Thank you Psych2go for affirming my symptoms of inferiority complex.

Going to keep this short. I am 32M and I live with my parents and have 3 permanent disabilities: hydrocephalus, mild cerebral palsy and, mild left hemiplegia. The 4 main things I can't do, sports (one wrong move or contact and I'm on my back or out like a light), tie knots/my shoes (no tie laces have been a god send), write well (I grew up, with technology so typing is my main way), and driving. Self-confidence on top of my body and the area I live in is not great to learn to drive since no one does the speed limit. All this makes me a hardcore homebody. I've tried remote work, but unfortunately I couldn't get my mind to swap from home to work so I need to commute. Moving with my family in 2021 has been the hardest for me. Train is now 6 miles away along a highway instead of the 2 miles in the city and things like Uber don't run in this part of the city robbing me of the independence I had for years.

now to the topics, comparison: Yes I have compared myself to even my own family mainly my brother. No health problems, can drive, played sports, and even finished college (I dropped out).
Bullying/finanical insecreuties: In school I was bullied but not due to my disabilities. Nope that came from my mother who for almost my entire working life has told me to get a real job despite having all my bills paid and I'm content with the money I make even though its a dead end job for minimum wage. This stings more since I am at the point where I am commuting as much as I am actually working for the day. My father sympathizes with me since he was in the same position when I was born.

Plan is to move out this next year and start my own life. Thanks to all who have read this, it was really difficult to put this down for others to see.

[mentalwellnessdaily]

Adolescence can be quite a challenging time during one's upbringing. It's an interesting point that parents may play a role in their child feeling inferior not just through abuse, but also through too much parental surveillance. It gives the impression that the child is unable to do something on their own.

[RayPeng-]

This is a super important topic to talk about. I think you guys totally should make another episode about this if you can? I never heard about such a thing before, but I think I struggled with this all my childhood and teen-hood. I think I still feel defects of this, but kinda less I think.

[staircaserecords]

My self esteem has always been low. But it has not helped that my entire life, everyone around me has refused to believe I have the mental capacity to understand anything that isn’t extremely simple. At this point, I feel like I’m shoved into having an inferior complex from others with a superiority complex.

[ScreenySketches]

having gone through something similar to this (still sort of am?), and naturally responding with repetitive "nice"-ness, it's a good thing to see a different view on the whole situation. Thanks again Psych2Go! <3

[vintxge_taetae]

The financial hardships one hit home :, )) couldn’t have related more

[AbdulWahab-pbbz]

Your videos really helpede understand what i am going through
I suffer from inferiority complex and depression but I cant reach out to a therapist cause am still a teen living in my parents house
Growing up in a home where I am constantly emotionally abused and from the time i was little my parents would always fight and I am constantly compared to others and no matter how much i do its nothing to themWhereas my sister is 22 but am always compared to what she did at my age . I am constantly put down in every way possible. I now suffer from depression since I have left primary and moved on to islamic education i barely have the friends I have known that always complemented me and always made me feel loved. Even though i havent ever told about it they would always make me luagh and smile but in my new school i hardly have friends and i feel lonely . And I am always told that am lazy at home because i don't have the energy to do anything and I dont have any motivation. i am also expected to cook at the age of 14 since my sister learnt a few thinsg at that age . At school I come out at the top of my class and still they never care . After long day when i come back from school i am expected not to get any form of rest .My weaknesses are always used to put me down . I should never feel pretty and valued cause then it's pride 😢 I always felt ugly but my friends made me realize that i was actually pretty and whenever I say that my friends told me i look like this actress they put me down . While every boy in my class liked me .
Do i have pride if i think i am pretty
What can I do ? 😭😭😭😔

[joaquinmacias]

i always grew up playing basketball with older kids, they always told me i sucked but when i played around my age group, people told me i was exceptional or above average at least. I was never confident and when i got older, i got kicked off the team and i quit basketball for good. Im still learning how to be normal around people my age without feeling like i suck

[johnrainsman]

Am I a pathetic loser? I'm 27, still live at home, having never moved out. I have never had a girlfriend or a date, and I don't even have a driver's license. I have both a learning disability and ASD, and sometimes I say unfiltered things or act weird in social moments. I assume my ASD makes me "less normal." I don't have too many friends now that I've graduated from college and most of my friends have left town. My coworkers all seem to fit in; I usually stand out. I often feel like a misfit at work. They don't seem to want to include me in on the fun. I guess I can be weird and annoying socially. I wonder if they're better off without me. What's funny is they say you should always be yourself, but that's a fallacy, isn't it? I graduated high school at TWENTY, having been kept back in preschool (speech delay) and homeschooled. I even graduated at a small charter school instead of the superior public high school my younger sister is at. I'm jealous of her; she's stronger than I would've been...and about to be a senior when I was a sophomore her age. I seem slow and helpless and do better with a guide than by myself (my boss basically said that to my face).A disabled man who doesn't match standards, yes, but a failure too?