Are you gaslighting yourself? Time to flip your script

Always blaming yourself when something goes wrong can seriously undermine your confidence. It takes time and practice to change the script, says a clinical psychologist 

We can be our own harshest critics - changing that takes time. Picture: iStock 

We’ve all heard of gaslighting, but what about self-gaslighting? Is this a thing? If so, how do we recognise it and change our behaviours? Let’s ask the woman who coined the term.

Dr Julie Smith is a clinical psychologist with a decade’s private practice under her belt, and more recently, 3.5m followers on TikTok. Lots of them started following her during the pandemic, when she began sharing videos on her channel with a view to making mental health education accessible for all at a time when we particularly needed it.