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From: Karin Wikoff <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 13:23:32 +0000
Curious. When I was taking psychology as an undergrad in the
mid-1980s, they called this "Fear of Success" Syndrome. I knew a
woman who literally dropped out of college and ran away when she was
close to success, and later left a good job and moved to California
with nothing -- because she was having success and it made her
nervous. And, sadly, a faculty member who drowned herself in part
because she felt like a "fraud" as an economist because she was an
academic and not a "real" economist (and because she was an only child
and a daughter not interested in taking over the family's generational
plumbing business). She was also bipolar, so she had a lot of
struggles. Both these people were in Academia.
New name, but the features sound the same.
Karin
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From: "Goodwin, Bryony" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 09:14:29 +0000
***APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING***
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