Self-esteem is a person's assessment of their worth. It has parts.
Emotional because mood affects esteem.
Our initial connections heavily influence its formation and development, especially as self-love is formed in the setting of our first attachments.
Depending on one's "health", self-esteem affects many aspects of life, including relationships.
When it is strong, it supports the person carrying it in all their efforts and promotes project success, ambitious achievements, and personal achievements in general, as long as it is a true source of positive energy and supports self-confidence to reach your full potential.
When it is weak, it might hinder excellent individual functioning by multiplying restrictions and inhibitions for the person who is continually inhibited by their own ideas and feelings. negative; low self-esteem causes self-control issues and limits personal success.
Depressed symptoms, anxiety disorders, phobias, emotional dependence, and other psychological illnesses are also linked to low self-esteem.
How can you tell you lack self-esteem? The signs
Lack of self-esteem has harmful effects, yet certain factors might alert us to its decline.
Low self-esteem may cause people to obsess over their appearance, especially in social situations.
Fear of being judged or denigrated drives them to extreme control of what they reflect (appearance, speech, clothing, attitude, etc.), and others' gaze can become central to their perception of reality, sometimes becoming a disabling obsession.
They will then scrutinise and critique even the slightest of their reactions, self-presentation, and statements with a disapproving and unfavourable gaze.
People with such a manner of functioning may not even realise it, but they can endure terrible times of uncertainty and self-denigration that lead to social isolation. or even suicide in extreme circumstances.
We're talking about a true psychological invasion that's hard to control and causes everyday agony.
Poor self-esteem can lead to a real feeling of psychological isolation, which often leads to effective isolation. People with low self-esteem perceive themselves as fundamentally different from others, less competent, less valuable, or even inept, and therefore unable to adapt and meet the expectations of their social environment.
In this case, the outside is overrated in terms of favourable attributes, which will always hurt them when compared to themselves.
In the most severe cases, we can find a real feeling of strangeness with the persistent impression of not even being able to compare oneself, due to a fundamental difference in nature between oneself and others, perceived as representative of this "good", "good" or "natural" person, while the person perceives himself as a separate being, devoid of all the positive normality traits supposed to be carried by any other person.
This manner of functioning can lead to more or less serious psychological illnesses, especially personality disorders (avoidant personality in particular) associated to feelings of inadequacy or overpowering strangeness.
Low self-esteem makes people feel inauthentic, even when they succeed dis personal or professional projects.
There may be a questioning of the criteria (quality, objectivity, etc.) by which success was achieved, which will lead to personal devaluation and the final result, as well as a tendency to massively doubt the fact to be able to live up to the possible implications of this success, which may lead them to disengage from a project or give up on an