Does anyone suffer from this? Have you been properly diagnosed? What are you doing to cure yourself of it?
Can you even be diagnosed with an Inferiority Complex? I don't velieve it is in the DSM. Do you mean "Avoidant Personality Disorder"?
What is it then when a person feels that they're not worthy of having anything good in their lives, that they feel totally beneath anyone's attention? Is that what you mean by Avoidant Personality Disorder or have I misunderstood? Alternatively, there is the kind of seeking for compliments situation, where someone denigrates themself deliberately in order for someone else to compliment them, but is that another different syndrome altogether? It's not always easy to categorise these personality disorders and some of them tend to overlap anyway.
Inferiority Complex is an older idea developed when modern psychology was just being explored. It still has relevance today, especially in sociological school of thought, and while it may seem very similar to avoidant personality disorder, it's not. Inferiority Complex is what happens when a physical attribute (race/gender/disfigurement/musculature/etc.) makes someone feel inferior and so they are constantly trying to achieve impossible goals to make up for it (aka: the Napolean Complex). Avoidant Personality Disorder is the more severe form of Generalized Social Phobia, and is more alike what has been talked about in this thread. However, with personality disorders, it's not just how the person feels that defines the disorder, it's more in how they deal with those feelings. Someone with APD will keep to themselves, avoid going out, and avoid relationships because of their feelings of inferiority. Someone with Dependent Personality Disorder feels so inferior that they're completely dependent on someone else to make decisions for them in order to feel good. This is what Xantuary is referring to, and exactly what makes personality disorders so hard to nail down. They do often overlap (APD and Generalized Social Phobia have near identical criteria, it's the severity that makes the difference, for example), but those little differences are everything.
well if its self induced paranoic thoughts stop giving a fuck what others say and think about you, ou may lose freinds and become lonely but it helps you find thereal you and your survival instinct.
Everyone suffers from it. The truth is that most people feel like they are not quite as good as the people around them. That is because we are all trying to put up a good front to the world. The problem is that we know our own front is bullshit but we think that other peoples are who they really are. This leads to a lot of self-judgmental shit. This is a good way to waste about half your life. At some point, you decide (hopefully) that you do not give a rip about what other people think of you and then you begin to like yourself a little bit. However, by that time you are usually too old for it to make much difference. Better luck in the next life.
