Imposter Syndrome

A common affliction for high achieving anxious people.

Nerissa Talique
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6 min readJul 22, 2021

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I have struggled with anxiety for majority of my life. My mother likes to tell me that I was always a worrying child, from the impending end of the world to if sinister secret societies were actually real. That was my head space in grade school and looking back at it as a young adult I sometimes scoff at how silly it all seems now.

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Nerissa Talique
ILLUMINATION

A young woman with a wide ranging love for all things literature and nature so much so I dream of being both a Biologist and a Novelist.