Dear Miss Healing:

The validation that you still need, it has  to come from someone outside of you in the context of a close relationship. You  didn’t receive it from your relationship/s with your parents. So who can give it to you now?

My answer to my  question: a person with whom you will build an honest, empathetic and respectful relationship, a person whom you can trust. How about a competent, capable psychotherapist?

Now that you work as a medical doctor in the best hospital in your country, I suppose you can afford a capable therapist (not all therapists are created equal,  so it takes a special one)?

anita