False Self, Anxiety and Emotional Pain
The false self is a pseudo self that is created in childhood in families where children feel insecure and unsafe in their close relationships. Children create this false self to protect themselves against anxiety associated with loss, rejection and not being accepted. In these families children feel like they are unable to be themselves and that they need to comply with their families' needs and demands. In doing this, they learn to create this false self in order to belong a
