I guess I am never impressed with myself. I am not proud of my achievements, everything feels so minimal even though it may be a huge achievement for some?! I delete my work over and over and edit and redo and it is never good enough!
other people are much more ‘full of ■■■■’ in other words for some simple stuff. Maybe it is my grandiose that makes me feel so small and insignificant 
What about you?
Other people are more proud of what I’ve accomplished than me.
This sounds so much like the curse of high functioning MI. It’s unfair that we are handicapped mentally and emotionally but we still have to hold up to the standards of normies. In work I get it. Gotta keep professional. But then we also need to be kind to ourselves if something doesn’t pan out or we have an emotional breakdown. Support systems help with that too.
lollll these are funny
I really think I’m starting to believe the “hype” that people have been giving me, especially since my last major suicide attempt. But, that one wasn’t my fault. My new working position has been the shot in the arm that I needed so I could get back to the level I was at when I was volunteering at the computer access center.
what are you talking about? Hope your work is going well!! I was suicidal this past winter too
I’m probably too proud of some not so impressive achievements. I have a love/hate relationship with myself. That old cliché “there’s a fine line between love and hate” is never so true as about some person’s relationship with themselves.
I strongly believe I was in a friendship with a pathological narcissist and just before the computer center closed I started to have feelings of dread. The suicide attempt didn’t happen until about 10 months later. I also believe that I was going through a little-known malady called “narcissistic victim syndrome”. It felt like this “friend”, who was also the co-ordinator of the center, had just bitten into brain and I really didn’t know what was going on at first. That’s it in a nutshell!
That sounds crazy @anon96671092… I think I’ve met a narcissist or two, but they didn’t influence me too much. I didn’t make friends wih them, but we were on ok terms.
So did you get over it now? I hope so…
I think I’ve been over it for quite some time, now. I’m no clinician, but I wouldn’t call this guy an extreme narcissist like Trump, more of a moderate case. Just enough to cause trouble. He wasn’t a total louse, but I reached a decision to finally end the “friendship”. As far as I’m concerned though, now, he can go stuff it!
There was a track or two I made that I felt proud of. But right now, no.
Pride is kind of a delusion we’re really not all that in control of what talents we get or do not get. Even though I believe that I also am foolish enough to fall for it and be proud of something I’ve accomplished. Not so proud of that.
Im not proud of myself. Not because i think i dont deserve it but because i think being proud of oneself is a human thing and im not a human.
After pride cometh the fall. Pride is just as troublesome as shame.
Not too much of it, anyway!
Yes, I’m proud of myself for having my son. And for graduating from nursing school. And for getting my B.S.N. And for getting my cosmetology license and diploma. And for recording, producing and promoting three contemporary classical music albums. And for getting recognized by YouTube.com for three video singles off of those albums. And proud of producing several music videos for those three music albums. And proud of producing album jackets for those three albums.
Impressive, @Gina2! 15
Thank you, @anon96671092.
Sometimes I am, I suppose I have a lot of achievements to take pride in, but sometimes I am not. Right now I am not.