The Consequences of Excessive Self-Sacrifice

  Do you dedicate most of your time to others? Do you find yourself spending more of your energy meeting their needs than your own? If you’ve answered yes to these questions, it’s likely that you might be a victim of the self-sacrifice schema. For the prestigious psychologist Jeffrey Young, the founder of schema therapy, the origin of this problem lies in childhood. More specifically, it originates from learning the wrong ways of reacting to childhood events. In his model, he proposes a total of 18 types of schemas. In this article, we’re going to focus on his self-sacrifice schema….