Self-indulgence

Adult children who were deprived in childhood not only continue to

deprive themselves the way their parents did, but they also often go to

the other extreme and become overly self-indulgent. In fact, the flip

side of deprivation is indulgence. This is why so many neglected and

emotionally abused children grow up to become adults who are

overindulgent.

One of the primary problems adults who were overprotected

or emotionally smothered tend to experience is difficulty separating

and individuating from their parents. The term separation refers to

the ability to have a clear psychic representation (an internal image

and understanding) of the self as different from everyone else, especially the mother.

Culled from Healing your emotional self by Beverly Engel

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