411: Ask David: What’s Self-Esteem? What’s Self-Acceptance? Do We "Need" Them?

2512.94 - 2542.197 Dr. David Burns

And the capacity to get out of it is simply to make the decision to stop doing that to yourself and to treat yourself in a loving way. Not because you've earned it, because you can't earn it, but because you've made a decision. But, you know, that may go in one ear and out the other. When you see it, it's kind of an enlightenment. But it's hard to get when you're feeling down.