Fraud Syndrome

MattHall (he of the Questions) has discovered a disease. Treatable, but incurable. If left untreated, it can destroy your quality of life – paralyzing, maybe even life-threatening.

Fraud Syndrome.

Symptoms include the lifelong nagging fears that:

• you do not really have any idea what you’re talking about
• you’re about to be found out at any moment
• you should know more, do more, be more
• much more
• than where you’re at
• everyone else is ahead of you
• everyone else is laughing at you behind your back
• they’re right to
• and you should just give up.

Untreated, the condition can spiral into:

• loss of self-esteem
• shame
• guilt
• enervation
• apathy
• ennui
• depression
• paranoia
• and even suicidal ideation.

Who are we kidding. Even when you do treat it – even when you do work your tail off every single day fighting it – it can still snap up and bite you.

• “You’re ___ years old and yet…”
• “You call yourself a ___ and yet…”
• “You tell people ___, and yet…”

Fraud Syndrome. When what’s inside your head hurts way more than anything you’d ever catch from anyone else.