(1) Attach great importance to your mistakes, failures and limitations.
(2) Conclude that they mean something is wrong with you.
(3) Feel guilty and/or ashamed of yourself.
(4) Decide that the way to feel less guilty and/or ashamed is to make no mistakes, avoid failure, and erase your limitations.
(5) Fail repeatedly at step 4.
(6) Punish yourself for step 5.
(7) Imagine that other people see you as you do.
(8) Assume that this puts you at risk for being criticized, judged, rejected and/or abandoned.
(9) Decide that it would be better to punish yourself for your flaws than be punished.
(10) Return to step 1 and repeat the cycle.
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[3] Why I’m so hard on myself
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