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

3204.887 - 3232.88 Dr. David Burns

So are you saying that's something some of our listeners might want to play with if they looked at my list of 23 self-defeating beliefs like the love addiction, the approval addiction, the achievement addiction, perfectionism, and so forth, all these things we think we need in order to feel happy and worthwhile, and then simply take a piece of paper, draw a line down the middle, and list the advantages of that belief on the left and the disadvantages on the right?