Being Less Hard on Yourself
Self-criticism becomes a problem when the voice in your head holds you to standards you would never apply to anyone else, and the resulting shame starts to cost you, in confidence, relationships, and the ability to move forward after mistakes. If you find yourself replaying errors long after anyone else has forgotten them, or feeling like a failure over things that are genuinely ordinary, that pattern has a name and it has real solutions. You are not just being dramatic, and you are not stuck with this.