Do you have a need for approval? Are you insecure and uncomfortable when your ideas differ from those of the people around you?
Approval addiction. It’s just as difficult to walk away from, just as habit forming and just as dangerous as heroin. It will make you say yes when you want to say no, do things you don’t want to do, and eventually lose all respect for yourself – just like a heroin addict. The thing is they don’t have interventions and healthcare facilities for approval addicts. You can’t check yourself in for a month and de-tox. The worst thing about it is that the very act of breaking free of it will cause disapproval – the thing you fear the most. (more…)
