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Why achievements don't erase shame about family origins

I'm successful and stable but I still feel like I'm pretending to be normal and someone will eventually figure out I come from the kind of family that gets written about in police reports

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

You're struggling with persistent feelings of fraudulence and unworthiness that persist despite external success because internal shame about your background remains unhealed.

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