Fake Friend Syndrome

Sometimes a friendship can become so painful or unhealthy that we need to end it.

But we often don't have clear guidance or formulas to make these decisions. Our negative emotions drive our thoughts and may cause us to make poor decisions and lose relationships we could have kept.

• Assume first that you are doing the easiest thing, and not the most difficult.
• Do not deny someone’s responsibility for it exempts them of all agency and power. Things don’t happen on their own, all involved have personal responsibility, including the victims.
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There are several reasons why the impostor syndrome seems to have become an epidemic.

• We have given the phenomenon a name.
• Our preoccupation with it is the result of profound social change. Many people work in the service economy, where we create impressions rather than tan...