Fraud
What is Fraud?
Convinced your competence or success is accidental. That you've fooled people and will be found out.
When you might feel fraud
Fraud is a specific form of impostor, which itself is a type of worthlessness. You might experience this feeling in situations where worthlessness is present, particularly when the circumstances align with the nuances that define fraud.
Emotional Hierarchy
Explore Fraud on the Interactive Wheel
Use our free interactive feeling wheel to explore fraud and discover related emotions.
Open Shame & Guilt WheelRelated Emotions
A core belief that something is fundamentally wrong with you. Not what you did —...
Feeling damaged in a way that can't be fixed. As if you came incomplete....
A pervasive sense of not being as whole, good, or whole as others seem to be....
Chronic sense of inadequacy. Achievements don't touch this belief — it runs deep...
Performing a version of yourself that doesn't match how you feel inside....
Believing that love, care, or good things are not meant for you specifically....