"... some of them make you feel inadequate, you know you're getting old and you're getting senile and you're not able to take things in, I mean sometimes you feel that way, you feel as if och I'll just lift my bag and jacket and go" (focus group B).
If your partner is constantly putting you down and making you feel inadequate, you may be experiencing emotional abuse.
Flirting can seem hard to some because the stakes are so high: if the person doesn't flirt back with you, or give signs that they like you, you feel inadequate as a person.
Recognize when someone is feeding your fears by telling you you're inadequate or incapable of changing.
One of the reasons you may be lacking self-respect is because you feel bad that you're single while all of your friends are engaged, or that you feel inadequate that you don't make as much money as other people you know.
If you feel like you can never fully be who you are, or that you're inadequate in some way when you're around your loved one, then you may not be in love.
The gods of this world say you're worthless if your calendar isn't full, you're a loser if you don't have enough "likes" or "followers" on social media, you're inadequate if you aren't constantly giving, striving, struggling, and pushing.
Some of these shops are selling a lifestyle, an image, which could only make you feel inadequate if you're not swinging from a chandelier with the vibrator equivalent of a Prada handbag.
He paints, he creates psychedelic light shows, he reads Gregory Corso's poetry – I trust you feel inadequate, all you Brits whose sixth-form memories of '71 are of dancing to "Knock Three Times" and watching Eurovision with your parents.
Remember that feedback isn't meant to hurt you or make you feel inadequate; it's there to help you improve as a worker.
