Have you ever found yourself agreeing to host a weekend event, cover a colleague’s late shift, or drive across town to help a friend move, all while a quiet voice inside you screams, “I don't have time for this”?

Do you carry a persistent feeling that you are fundamentally flawed, and that if people knew the "real" you, they would reject you? In Schema Therapy, this deep-seated belief is known as the Defectiveness schema.