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Why do I feel the need to seek validation?
The root cause of most approval-seeking behavior is low self-esteem. This sense of inferiority arises from many factors. Some relate to your natural personality, while others stem from external influences such as your upbringing, cultural experience, education, and work life.
What does it mean to want to be validated?
Validation is the desire to have someone else’s approval or agreement with what you say, believe, or do. We thrive in a community and, therefore, have a strong desire to belong in that community and seek validation from it.
Is it normal to seek validation?
Validation is part of being interdependent and relying on the feedback and encouragement of others around us. Even very independent people still need validation in some aspects of their life; however, they are also able to accept their own self-validation if they do not get it from someone else.
Is asking for validation bad?
This, as well as the need for in-person validation, can create anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem, and make it addictive to hear praise, acceptance, and acknowledgment in all aspects of life.
Is feeling validated bad?
Validating your thoughts and emotions will help you calm yourself and manage them more effectively. Validating yourself will help you accept and better understand yourself, which leads to a stronger identity and better skills at managing intense emotions. Self-validation helps you find wisdom.
Is wanting validation a bad thing?
How do I feel more validated?
Accept your feelings without judgment. Sit with your emotions without reacting to them. Don’t tell yourself how you should feel. Accept how you do feel in the moment because you always have a right to feel. Comfort yourself the way a concerned and compassionate parent would.
Why do we seek validation and encouragement?
You desire to get accepted by others and feel accomplished. Turns out, seeking validation and encouragement are everyday activities for most of us. It has gotten a bad name due to a backlash by self-improvement blogs against it. Isn’t it time we break down the validity of the advicea gainst seeking validation?
Do you seek approval or validation from others?
The vast majority of society seeks approval or validation from others. We learn at a young age to occassionally look up at mom and dad, waiting for that nod or smile to show that what we are doing is ok.
How do you deal with a friend who needs validation?
Don’t judge your friend for seeking validation. Instead, give them a pat on the back and help them overcome fear. Similarly, you might also want to portray a ‘cool’ personality and get appreciated. Don’t make a big deal out of it.
Do you search for patterns that confirm your existing beliefs?
You’ll search for patterns of info that confirm your existing beliefs (as I mentioned in an earlier article it’s called as apophenia ). The tendency to look at new evidence in a way that confirms your existing hypothesis, while conveniently ignoring the facts that violate your ideologies, has a fancy name in psychology: