Is self-consciousness necessarily a bad thing?

Answer 1

Self consciousness is what we are and need to be purposeful responsible social creatures endowed with reason. Perhaps you are experiencing the reflexive double self controlling disturbance. The Will is positive and the Judgment is negative. Remembering the genesis for your Judgment may help to restore Judgment to its servile place in the Soul and the Will into its superior positive identity.

Self help resources:

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phbb.htm

The Phenomenology of Mind

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Self Consciousness

B: Freedom of Self-Consciousness — Stoicism: Scepticism:
The Unhappy Consciousness
Free Self-Consciousness

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Perls

Answer 2

Being self-conscious gives us humans the joy of dreading our own mortality for our entire lives-then it allows us to experience death with consciousness. Self-consciousness also gave us the faculty to experience life more fully than other animals and allowed humans to seek understanding. I conclude it is a good thing until it becomes a bad thing when you experience pain and then die.

Answer 3

Self-consiounsness is an emotional response that steers us to what society wants us to be. If that is what you want, it is not a bad thing. If not, there may be an issue. It is one of the world's ways of controlling your behavior.

Answer 4

Depends, you can be self consious about your looks could be bad and drive you insane maybe cause eating disorders, or it could be good, because then you always do your best. :)

Answer 5

It can become a real pain in the butt if it is carried to extremes.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 6

It's good up until the point when you are always checking yourself in a mirror.

Answer 7

No .. but like all things in life - moderation is important.

Answer 8

Only if it lead to your being conceited.

Answer 9

it is and is not. it is not bad to be consious on what you do and what you can do. but sometimes, it might hurt others not you.

Answer 10

no