Posts Tagged ‘low self esteem’

What does it mean for one to have high or low self-esteem?

I just never really fully got a concept of high self-esteem and low self-esteem.

For example, what requires one to have low Self-esteem/high self-esteem?

Actual examples/scenarios/etc would help.


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How to help someone with low self esteem?

How am I supposed to help this person with low self esteem that is always fishing for compliments. I don’t want to keep saying that they look good over and over but I don’t want their self esteem and confidence to get worse.


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What exactly causes a person to have a low self esteem?

Where does a low self esteem orginate from? How does it develop? What causes a low self esteem?


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How did YOU gain self confidence and develop high self esteem?

This question is for people who have suffered from having a low self esteem and low self confidence in the past, i’m just curious as to ways YOU personally, developed high self confidence and high self respect? What helped you achieve it?


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What are ways I can improve my self esteem and learn to love myself?

I have always had issues with low self esteem. My mom never helped me with it either. She has low self esteem herself.
I have tried to keep a journal but don’t write in it everyday like I should. I have started to lose weight and just need to learn to love me.


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How to raise confidence and self esteem ?

I have low self esteem and confidence and it affects every part of my life and I am always thinking about what others might be thinking of me and I want to stop thinking like that. Also, the lack of self esteem affects my interactions with people meaning I don’t interact with people and what to change that. So can anyone give me some advice on how to get over these problems?


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How can I improve my self esteem about how I look?

Hi guys. I am a 17 year old girl who has a great life. I have a loving family, an amazing boyfriend, good grades, many friends etc. However, I have very low self esteem when it comes to my physical appearance. I am not an ugly girl, but I can’t stop pointing out my own flaws and comparing myself to those I find more beautiful. I hate feeling this way! Could anyone provide some good tips or websites? I just want to focus on what is good in my life.
Thanks.


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Why when someone has low self esteem, others push it into your face and make you feel worse?

And act as if it’s all your fault you have low self esteem.


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Do you think there is a relationship between self-esteem and sexual harassment?

Do you think there is a relationship between self-esteem and sexual harassment?

Do you think people with low self-esteem would be more likely to be the harasser, the victim, or both?


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What is the best way to improve my self esteem?

I find myself suffering from a low self esteem at times due to me being overweight. As much as I try to accept who I am for what I am I feel my inner happiness will not come unless I lose weight and losing weight is a whole issue within itself. How can I improve my self esteem without relying on weight loss as my ticket to happiness?


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How can i increase my self esteem and feel better about myself?

I have a low self esteem. Even when i succeed in something i still do not feel happy about myself. This occurs to me a lot especially in the case of dating (for me it’s the best thing in life to love somebody). Example: I say to myself "who wants to date me i’m not cute", "girls probably think i’m gay" and many other low self esteem things. Can anybody help?


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How to deal with low self-esteem in others?

To make the question narrower, let’s say how should I deal with a girl who has a very low self-esteem? We’re close friends and we may take this to the next level and form a relationship. IMO this is what we both want to. The problem is that she freaks out when message I her late. It seems that she thinks that I may consider her questions stupid or something.

What is the best way to soothe her and make a balance in our friendship/later, relationship?


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How can I raise my self esteem and be more confident?

I’m the average teenage girl with a low self esteem, it’s lower than it should be and I realize this.

How can I raise it?


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What is the difference between being practical and having low-self esteem?

Example: I’m overweight, and because of this, I don’t even try flirting with or wasting my time on guys who are preppy because common sense has shown me what they like. However, when I tried explaining this to my friend she doesn’t seem to get it and keeps insisting I have low-self esteem, but I disagree.

So what is the difference between being negative (or having low-self esteem) and being practical?


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How do you help someone with low self esteem?

This person has distanced herself from family (over several years), her husband (they are separated) and his family and many friends and blames others for her problems. Including a husband who (she says) cant do anything right. She has continued cosmetic surgery over the past five years breast reduction, weight, and tucks, finding fault in her looks. On the contrary she is extremely attractive and intelligent. Her low self esteem has manifest itself almost into a false conceit, or maybe a false confidence. How do you get someone help or can point these things out.


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How do you raise your self-esteem and genuinely feel good about yourself?

How does this work?

Is it possible for someone who has a lot of emotional baggage to go from having a lifetime of low self-esteem to feeling great about oneself (at least most of the time if not all)? Can this really happen and how?

If this were something so simple that I could "just do it" then I wouldn’t need to ask this question.


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How to build self esteem when are you being put down constantly?

I have a low self esteem which I want to work on improving. How do you block out the negative things people say about you.


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What are you view points on these questions about self esteem?

1. Do you think that if every person in the US (hypothetically) have normal (not high) self esteem that it would help or hurt sociality?
2. Does trying to build up esteem for every person who has a low esteem feed into the ‘Me’ Generation?
3. At what point does healthy self esteem become arrogance?
4. What are the pros and cons of low self esteem?
5. Should a person who is overweight have as high as a self esteem as a smaller person?


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How To Improve Self Esteem – Part 2

Further, plan your course of action for the day – month – year! Be it with regard to meeting new people or tackling tough conditions. The better prepared you are, the better you will perform. There will always be some unforeseen circumstances but you will be able to make it through them if you have a focused plan of action.

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How To Improve Self Esteem

Self-esteem is your reading of yourself. Everyone has an inbuilt score card wherein they give themselves points on their self-assessment. It’s a good system but not infallible. Our assessment is prone to influences from society. In fact we tend to judge ourselves more according to what the others think of us than what we actually think of ourselves. More often than we find ourselves in a situation where we begin to feel dejected.

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High Self Esteem – Low Self Esteem – It’s Your Choice – Part 2

High Self EsteemLow Self Esteem

• Instead of believing that your life is unchangeable and will stay how it is right now forever, you can decide to believe that you have the power and potential to change and improve things.

• Instead of thinking that you don’t deserve and can’t be happy and successful in your lifetime, you can choose to believe you do deserve happiness and that you can go on to be successful to prove your happiness.

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High Self Esteem – Low Self Esteem – It’s Your Choice

High Self EsteemLow Self Esteem

You might be feeling a little overwhelmed after all of the things we have gone over. If this is so, don’t fret. Remember, any journey, no matter if it is a thousand miles or ten, they all begin with one small step. Take your time and work with the techniques you have been taught. Before you even realize it, you will find that you are making progress, and with this you’ll be more confident and walking that journey even faster.

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Does A Bad Relationship Cause Low Self Esteem -Part 2

Cause Low Self Esteem

Remember to focus your mind on other stuff so that you don’t develop a dependence on your abusive partner who is aiming to kill your self esteem. You can talk to your friends, read books which feel good or focus on something like giving your house a facelift.

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Does A Bad Relationship Cause Low Self Esteem

Cause Low Self Esteem

A bad relationship can happen to anyone and almost everyone goes through bad relationship at some point in their lives. However, some bad relationships can be so abusive that the negatives effects of such an abuse remain on the psyche of the person for a life time.
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How Did You Come To Get the Symptoms of Low Self Esteem – Part 2

Symptoms of Low Self Esteem

Let’s take a look at some examples:

·    Let’s say that your parents were very busy and distracted when you were growing up. Did this mean that you didn’t get the attention you wanted from them? If they were very busy, you may have felt that you didn’t matter, that you weren’t worthy of their time. They probably didn’t think this themselves, but if you as a child interpreted their behavior this way and formed the belief that you were not worth their time and attention, this could have had a negative impact on your self-esteem even as an adult.

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