Ned responds to a 20-year old college student who writes, "I started a new job at a science lab about two months ago and I’m not doing very well... I really related to the passage in your book about how one client felt like he had to “answer” to the preacher of self loathing and would get trapped in a hyperfixation around negative self-talk. How can I build up my self esteem and deconstruct the critic?"

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