Slaying Your Fear: A guide for people who grapple with insecurity
They did not discover their possibilities for strength and self-support in the normal course of their development through childhood and adolescent years; now they may have organized their lives around their sense of deficiency, trying either to please, to be taken care of, or, alternately, to control and dominate, to manipulate and coerce the satis
... See moreNathaniel Branden • Honoring the Self: The Pyschology of Confidence and Respect
They may decide to find other ways to cope, to get care while protecting themselves from hurt. They develop an insecure attachment relationship.
Connie Dawson • Growing Up Again: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children
Another reason anxious people might end up in lopsided friendships is that anxious people martyr themselves in relationships, silencing their needs and prioritizing those of others, convinced that voicing their needs will drive others away.
Marisa G. Franco, PhD • Platonic: How Understanding Your Attachment Style Can Help You Make and Keep Friends
I’ve chosen the term preoccupied because through both sets of behaviors, these children (and later adults) are so anxiously tied up with how available…
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