2026-05-20
32 分钟There is a fear that sits underneath almost every anxiety symptom I have ever seen.
It's not panic.
It's not intrusive thoughts.
And it's not the worry about health or relationships or whether you've locked the front door.
It is this.
What if I'm not enough?
What if, at the end of it all, I'm just fundamentally not enough?
Not as a partner, not as a parent, not as a person.
And here is what makes this fear so insidious.
The harder you try to answer it, the worse it gets.
You seek reassurance.
You collect evidence.
You build a case for your own self-worth.
And it works, but just for a little while.
And then the doubt comes right back, and this time louder.
Paul Gilmartin.
He's the host of the Mental Illness Happy Hour and someone
who has sat with thousands of people in their darkest places.
And we are going deep into this fear,
where it comes from,