Team Telegraph Day 2: Learn how to be your own best friend - Telegraph

Team Telegraph Day 2: Learn how to be your own best friend - Telegraph

I have this person who follows me about all day, hurling insults. "Idiot!" she exclaims when I delete the wrong email.... She certainly doesn't build up my confidence or make me feel good about myself in any way. And yet I find it very hard to shake her off.... I associate [my real best friends] with good times and bright visions, while this other person only ever reminds me of failures and broken dreams. The thing is, this other person is me. She is an agglomerate of all the negative judgments, midnight terrors and critical harshness that I have ever experienced. And the really mad thing is that she is the one I listen to."