Hochfunktional und leer: Warum Erfolg dich nicht rettet

Empty inside – even though you have everything There are people who appear to lack nothing on the outside: career, relationship, family, recognition, an orderly life. Yet inside, there's a silence for which there are no words – a feeling of not being fully present, a thin glass wall between themselves and their own existence. This phenomenon isn't a hidden depression. It has a precise clinical name and a developmental history that has been described for decades. Both are barely mentioned in mainstream diagnostic systems – which is why it's overlooked. ... 🌐 MY WEBSITE More about my work: https://prof-ashok-riehm.de I address: • Why being highly functional and empty is not depression – and why this distinction determines the right treatment • Identity diffusion as a diagnosis-grade concept: Erik Erikson, Otto Kernberg, the STIPO as a measuring instrument • Donald Winnicott's True and False Self (1960): how a highly competent external system emerges while the inner life remains hidden • Two clinical pathways to the same picture: achievement-oriented parents (Julia) and the parentified child (Stefan) • Why this is particularly difficult to grasp therapeutically – and why the first encounters with the True Self are often not relief, but confusion • What really helps: spaces without performance pressure, a person who doesn't need to be impressed, the gradual return to one's own preferences • When structured treatment is needed (Borderline Organization, TFP) 📌 CHAPTER 0:00 Julia: Highly Functional, But Not There 1:42 What This Post Is About 2:18 Why It's Not Depression 3:42 The Diagnostic Name: Identity Diffusion (Erikson, Kernberg) 6:38 Winnicott's True and False Self (1960) 10:04 Julia's Childhood: Love as an Achievement 11:58 Stefan: A Second Path, the Same Picture 14:04 Why It's Particularly Difficult Therapeutically 16:01 What Actually Helps 19:01 When More Is Needed 20:24 Conclusion 📚 KEY SOURCES Erik Erikson, Identity: Youth and Crisis (1968); Otto Kernberg, Identity Diffusion as the Core of Borderline Personality Organization; Donald Winnicott (1960), Ego Distortion in Terms of True and False Self STIPO (Structured Interview of Personality Organization, Clarkin, Caligor, Stern, Kernberg), Cronbach's Alpha .86 for the identity domain; Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (Kernberg, Clarkin, Yeomans). 🔔 If this post helps you, please subscribe to my channel and turn on notifications. I would be very happy to receive a like and your comment – ​​it helps other people find this video. #HighlyFunctional #InnerEmptiness #IdentityDiffusion #FalseSelf #Winnicott #Kernberg #ProfAshokRiehm #Trauma