What stops most people is not failure but success. Once they get a result that doesn't match up with their self image they sabotage themselves back to the beginning.
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Additionally they are terrified of positive attention their success will get because it means others will have higher expectations of them, but their external locus of control means they can’t repeat their success, it was an accident that happened to them. They’re doomed.
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Sabotaging their success lowers others’ expectations of them in a less catastrophic way and decreases their stress that they’ll be too happy and then get so disappointed they can’t go on. They’d rather be comfortably miserable than crash extra hard and die.
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I've had that same success anxiety as well. What a mind fuck that is.
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Attachment issues often cause this, my clinical speciality has been fixing that weak root.
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