2006-06-11 12:20:49 · 10 answers · asked by mar 1 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Low self-esteem can have devastating consequences.
It can create anxiety, stress, loneliness and increased likelihood for depression.
It can cause problems with friendships and relationships.
It can seriously impair academic and job performance.
It can lead to underachievement and increased vulnerability to drug and alcohol abuse.
Worst of all, these negative consequences themselves reinforce the negative self-image and can take a person into a downward spiral of lower and lower self-esteem and increasingly non-productive or even actively self-destructive behavior.
2006-06-11 12:23:24 · answer #1 · answered by Trent 3 · 9⤊ 2⤋
You can have either low esteem or high esteem.
If you have low esteem issues, it means that you need to booster your ego, because your self-confidence is low and you let people walk all over you.
If it is the opposite, it means that you think too much of yourself and maybe you need to tone it down a notch.
I hope this helped!
2006-06-11 19:23:36 · answer #2 · answered by Who?Me? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Esteem Issues really means your personal sense of self-worth and self-value. It has nothing to do do with any other person, just you.Matthew McKay has a great book on assessing self esteem that is probably available at a library. Thanks for the question.
2006-06-11 19:27:21 · answer #3 · answered by SpongebobRoundpants 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you can answer that - esteem issues shall no longer be of interest to you.
If you were thinking of global warming, esteem is a good alternative energy source where geothermal haute esprings exist.
2006-06-11 19:25:08 · answer #4 · answered by randylucentphilosopher 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means you like yourself and respect yourself and it is very important. if you have no self esteem people will misuse you.
2006-06-11 19:23:39 · answer #5 · answered by Mom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that you have little or no value in yourself. You think you suck or are weak, or ugly...it can take many forms.
Bottom line, you don't see your real value or worth.
2006-06-11 19:24:34 · answer #6 · answered by Dolphin lover 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When someone is not strong enough to stand up for themselves and rely on their friends for guidance....In other words..lost
2006-06-11 19:23:53 · answer #7 · answered by WyattEarp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is your question exactly??? Either you think highly of yourself or you don't!!! It's how you feel about yourself, what kind of respect you give yourself and your body.
2006-06-11 19:25:18 · answer #8 · answered by star 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read maslow's hierarchy of needs
2006-06-11 19:22:38 · answer #9 · answered by Ashes 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That you think that you are not as good as you really are
2006-06-11 19:23:38 · answer #10 · answered by Bear 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋