You are talented-you should be getting good feedback from other gifted people. You deserve that!
I am horrible at taking compliments and always distrust the giver. I think it's probably that whole perfectionist crap, nothing is ever good enough I have done. I believe I will always be second rate. Happened to me the other day, this lady looked me right in the eye and said all this super nice stuff about my work and it didn't register at all. She is a successful, millionaire, PhDs and everything. All I could think is "what is really behind this?"
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Thank you!
I do love compliments, I suck them up, and need more.... More....
I'm sort of always on a roller coaster between "yeahh I'm really good at this and that and I'm special and awesome" - and then - "I'm not good at anything, I should sleep all day everyday, I don't matter".
I know a have some narcissism going on (I really do) The core of narcissism is low self worth & no self-love, and because of that an unhealthy way of trying to see urself as "perfect" and "better than others".. a rollercoaster between perfection and self-loathing.
When I get a compliment, I feel "yesss I'm the best, I'm great" but seconds later I feel like maybe the compliment wasn't honest, or one compliment isn't enough, I should have 200 compliments and be famous, or else I don't matter and what I do isn't good at all.
Yup. I'm messed up.
At least I'm aware of it and I know it's based on my lack of selv-love, and how my parents didn't take care of me when they should've been.
And they didn't give me compliments ever.