A: The desire to become real is already the movement, but it’s also one of the last strategies of the false self to remain relevant by repositioning itself as a seeker of truth. “Fine. I’ll stop pretending. I’ll become authentic now.” But who is saying that?
Two years of therapy around feeling like a fraud likely means the old identity has already stopped working. The false self built to perform, please, adapt, and appear legitimate, has lost credibility. That’s not pathology; that’s progress.
Saying your focus has shifted to “becoming real,” probably places you somewhere between