Well, while that is true, I find it unfair to point out any specific disorder. LOTS of disorders make people need a lot of validation - PTSD, social anxiety, borderline personality disorder, I mean basically all anxiety disorders...I mean even people without actual full-fledged disorders but recovering from abuse can need a lot of validation, even constant.

The last thing I want to do is to make people feel like they can't get validation here or that their requests for validation are somehow wrong. That's why I said that I can feel how I feel about constant validation, and still provide it constantly.

I wish I could just tell each and every person who posts needing validation that it doesn't matter what they are feeling. Feelings don't have right or wrong. You just feel that way. And you actually can't control how you feel about something when it happens. Don't judge yourself for your feelings. You feel how you feel. And it's no one's place to judge that.

Allow yourself to actually feel how you feel. ANd recognize that you can feel how you feel but not act on it or act opposing to how you feel because your feelings aren't your actions. I can be angry and not act on my anger.

Also, some people (myself included) may need constant validation until they get to a place where they feel confident enough in themselves and their own feelings that they can begin to learn to trust themselves and self-validate. That can take years, especially if they are still in the environment causing it, and some people may only make small progress (although even that small progress is worth it because you can feel so much better even with a small amount of self confidence and ability to self validate).