If you keep asking why do I need praise to feel okay, it usually means positive feedback may be doing too much of the work of stabilizing your worth, so its absence quickly feels emotionally costly. Praise dependency often feels less like one moment and more like a repeated inner position.
External validation psychology often becomes visible when praise feels less like encouragement and more like the thing that finally lets you relax.
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