I Feel I Have to Prove Myself All the Time

I always have to prove I can do what everyone else can. i always have to make people around me know that I am a person with valid opinions. It may be because I am part of a huge family.

Why do I feel the need to constantly prove myself?  Why do I always think I am not good or deserving enough? Or feel its what other people think, therefore I have to prove myself work harder achieve more!!! ...

Hey all. So yeah, I feel I need to prove myself to people all the time. I only really realised this after a few friends pointed out some of my personality quirks.
1) I always want to be seen as a badass. Or as my friend put it, "You...

Alot of eyes are around me, and I felt as if I couldn't afford to make a bit mistake. But that was before. Now, as much as possible, I want to keep my focus on my goals. And as long as I know that I am playing things (life) fair and...

Once more I have to wait. Wait for you to come back. Even when your home. You yell because I fall, Then you turn your back on me. Like I'm an embarrassment to you.But you never see me get back up. Please save yourself the stress. I'm...

I have multiple illnesses, some worse than the others, so I always feel like I have to prove myself because some people only see my illnesses, they don't see the real me.  They don't see what I have accomplished or what I can...

i feel i have to prove myself all the time, to my partner, to my friends, & even to my family ... i dont know why, but i find it SO SO SO hard to trust people, even family members, i hardly talk to anybody about how i feel or whats on...

*enters the building*Ahem...here goes:I feel I have to prove myself all the time.It may be because I'm constantly surrounded by pigs that are happy in s*** (thanks Samuel L. Jackson), love to feel themselves, and hate me because I'm not...

all my life ive felt like ive had these expectations placed on me ....  I was supposed to be the one to go to college , i had to get good grades in school  basically ive always felt like ive had to be perfect and live up to...

I seem to have acquired a job and good marks in a Masters Degree which really put me in a state of awe, as to how I actually deserved to get this far.  I didn't do very well throughout Primary or High School, was not very...

People don't see what they do to me when they say that I can't do something. What happens is when they say that I can't do something that is when I try untill I can. It is like they are challenging me! When they challenge me to...

I come from a family of nurses. Naturally I was expected to be one too. Never mind that I wanted to be a teacher. So I was fed all the propoganda as a small child. This continued on into the teenage years. The time came to apply to...

Yes it's true I feel I have to prove myself all the time, because clearly other guys are jealous of me being so damn good looking and such in such. But if you read my stories you can tell that in real life face to face that I'm not like...

It's been like this all my life. Some people would walk in a room, and be instantly liked and trusted, and be listened to. But not me. I would walk in quietly and be hardly noticed, and the scrape through. Then would have to prove...

I feel like because I'm a woman in a male-dominated profession, that I have to prove I'm just as good all the time.  Most of the time, the guys I work with are cool, and I'm proving myself to the passengers, but occasionally, it's...