A common and distressing outcome for people who are in recovery from chronic childhood trauma is the sense that we have a hard time feeling confident about our interpretations of own experiences without validation from someone else. For example, maybe we had to give a presentation to a group of people about a topic in which we have experience, or perhaps we are assigned some kind of project or piece of work to complete that we know how to do, but we might feel very anxious about our performance afterwards and, despite our experience and capability, have a hard time believing that we did a good job without reassurance from the people around us that we were successful (and even then maybe still doubt it!).