Approval seeking behavor is like a dangerous drug. It becomes addictive and you quickly develop a need to ask for more.
When you seek approval, you actually value others opinion and beliefs more than yours.
Their opinion of your is far more important to you than your own view of yourself. It affects your self esteem when you are not approved of .Receiving disapproval becomes a task by itself as you feel stuck .Your entire decision is now based on pleasing others to seek approvals which inturn becomes claustrophobic. You tend to disregard your ambitions to seek approvals from others.
You cannot take any decisive action without their approval.
Lack of achievement and a sense of failure are a few longterm setbacks of approval seeking behavior