Hey, i’m 29, and I can’t stop feeling like my family thinks i’m stupid. No matter what i do to prove them wrong, I just end up looking worse. My psychologist says it’s probably because of how my dad raised me. His whole idea was that the more he insulted me, the more i’d try to do better. But all it really did was make me feel like crap, i mean, if you keep telling a kid they’re useless, they’re gonna grow up thinking they’re useless, right? That’s basically what’s happened to me. I’ve been working on it for a while now, but I still feel like a failure most of the time. And it doesn’t help that I waste entire days telling myself, “Okay, tomorrow I’m gonna change everything and finally get my life together.” But I never do, and honestly, I feel like I’m just getting worse. What really sucks is that my family keeps bringing up dumb stuff I did as a kid like, small, stupid mistakes from years ago and they use it to make me feel bad whenever I screw something up now. It’s not even just “oh, you’re wrong.” It’s like they think I’m actually dumb. Sometimes I wonder if I’m, like, slower than everyone else or something. I don’t know… can you even fix this kind of thing? Is it possible to stop feeling like this after so many years? I feel stuck, and I don’t know what to do anymore.