Hi Anita,

I’m glad to have met someone who has experienced the feelings of being less than others and has found a way to lessen the feeling. If I understood correctly, the feeling of being less than will not go away entirely, but can be lessened over time by creating new neurological pathways (different thoughts) for that emotion? I’ve heard of CBT before but never really tried to change my thinking. I just let the old tapes (thoughts) re-run themselves.

What I find truly interesting about what you wrote is understanding this on an emotional / deep level. I know that intellectually I am not less than anybody, nobody is, but I can’t seem to really convince myself (or my mind) that I really am enough. How do we understand more on an emotional level? Is it just something that the mind will eventually grasp after creating different pathways and new ways of thinking?