Why Do We Seek External Validation?

Hearts, likes, and smiles — do they really make us happy?

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I recently spoke to my therapist about feeling inadequate at times. How for most of my life I have hidden behind a new outfit or my timidly outgoing personality to seem “normal” to the outside world, but internally have battled with feelings of inferiority and questioned myself. I have wondered if I have any…