Posted by fallsfall on February 13, 2004, at 11:39:40
In reply to Re: Validation, posted by Rigby on February 13, 2004, at 10:28:19
> This is *such* a good point. And also, if we were to just stand straight, as you say, and look truth in the eye not only would it vanish but, maybe the difficulty is, what would remain in its place? Are we just too used to being full of self-doubt? Is self-doubt such an integral part of our being that we'd feel not "ourselves" without it?
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I felt that if my therapist did not give me the approval that I needed that I couldn't exist. It wasn't so much that I would die (or kill myself) - it was more like I would disappear or disintegrate. I wouldn't "be". I have read that this kind of feeling indicates a lack of "self".
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