Distinguish imposter syndrome from depression, burnout, anxiety, perfectionism, trauma response, and real skill gaps. Apply the differential when "imposter syndrome" may be the wrong label — because the wrong label gets the wrong treatment. This is class-of-condition dispatch. Different conditions route to different handlers: depression has a CBT/medication evidence base; burnout needs structural change; perfectionism needs standard recalibration; skill gap needs skill-build. Running the imposter handler on a depression event isn't just a no-op — it's a handler that suppresses the retry logic the actual condition needs. Get the dispatch right before optimizing any handler.
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This module exists because "imposter syndrome" is the diagnosis people in your demographic reach for when they are trying to name an uncomfortable internal state that may not actu…
What gets called "imposter syndrome" in casual usage is sometimes:
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1. Take PHQ-9, GAD-7, and MBI if you haven't recently (cross-ref Life in General M1). 2. Run the differential on your top 3 imposter feelings from M1's checkpoint: imposter? depre…
6 lessons. Read in order; spiral back when you need to. By the end you'll have used the core ideas twice — once on the abstract, once on something you'll meet at work next week.