The Ideal Self Is Very Fragile

The ideal self is very fragile. Your ideal self will continually have you comparing yourself to other people, looking at what other people have and feeling unhappy or looking down on other people. An ideal self will cause us to engage pretty powerful defence mechanisms such as denial. When we search for safety, sometimes we must engage in conflict in order to achieve our safety. The healthy way is to do a sortiveness, which is healthy conflict. And the nice thing too, as well, about rogers's theory, and rogers's way of looking at that, is that then allows us to be more compassionate and emphatic.