What Alfred Adler Can Teach Us About the Inferiority Complex?

Feeling “Not Good Enough”? 

Have you ever sat in a meeting with a “perfect” idea, but kept your mouth shut because you were sure it sounded stupid.

Or you shunned away from a challenge because you knew you wouldn’t succeed.

Alfred Adler, the psychologist behind the idea of the inferiority complex, said “to be a human being means to feel oneself inferior”

To put it in other words: feeling less than is normal. It only becomes a problem when it controls your choices and hinders your growth.

Adler called this an ‘inferiority complex.” When that feeling dominates your mind and turns into a mental block that can hold you back in life.But the feeling itself can also be fuel.

Two things can happen:

–You use it as motivation to learn, practice, and improve.

– Or you avoid responsibility, compare yourself to others, and slowly shrink your world.

The difference isn’t the feeling; it’s what you do with it.

Next time that voice of self-doubt whispers in your ear, ask it one question:

“Are you here to stop me, or are you here to push me?“

Dr. Chavi Gupta

Psychiatrist, VHC