Impostor syndrome is a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist despite evident success. The feeling that you’re not suffering enough to deserve mental health treatment or seek the support of a therapist-what we’ve started to call mental health impostor syndrome-is real.
As early as March 2020, a poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 45% of adults say the coronavirus pandemic has affected their mental health and 19% say it has had a “major impact.”Īnd yet, with so much going on and the ability to observe the experiences and suffering of others via social media, some of us feel that we don’t “deserve” mental health treatment, even though we might be in pain ourselves.
The effects of the coronavirus pandemic combined with the growing racial justice movement, rising unemployment, and unstable economy means that the mental health crisis experts predicted as a result of the pandemic is here.
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