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

3234.418 - 3257.355 Dr. David Burns

And if you're doing, say, the love addiction, it's not the advantages and disadvantages of being loved. It's the advantages and disadvantages of basing your self-esteem on being loved, on needing love in order to feel happy and worthwhile. And then say, how is this going to help me? And there's a lot of ways it will help you. And how is it going to hurt me? And then balance it.