belief

[mzkero]

How do you make yourself believe? You know intellectually that you are smart... but you can't ever really believe it. You know you are reasonably attractive, but you can't see it. You can't actually believe it

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Well

[sweetmmeblue]

putting on the professional hat

[anonymous]

For myself, I mostly let it go

[entrope]

I did a lot of this for a lot of years: http://psychcentral.com/lib/2011/challenging-our-cognitive-distortions-and-creating-positive-outlooks/

[debsquared]

Sometimes the brain critics win, sometimes they lose, and sometimes I am so absorbed in just living that they don't even exist. I try to take them as a sign that I'm not at my best at that moment (tired, hungry, sick, pms) and to be easy on myself while that moment passes.

[zzbottom]

Personally, when it come right down to it, I take a lot of things on faith. It took years for me to understand that I'm intelligent, so that I don't have to take on faith. But good looking or desireable, when it comes to those, I just have to take it on faith when someone reveals that they feel those labels apply to me. I tend to think of them as anomalies.