Low self esteem causes and symptoms

There are many factors that can lead to development of low self-esteem such as social status, physical appearance and peer pressure. For instance, when you are unemployed and have little cash you might end up developing low self esteem since you incapable of making visible impact in the community that you live in. Keep reading for more factors that can lead to development of the undesirable element of low self worth.

Peer pressure is another common cause of low self esteem. Regardless whether it is a friend, coworker or classmate, their attitude towards your weight, external appearance or intelligence level can degrade your self worth if it is negative. Many overweight people tend to have low self esteem caused by bullying and verbal abuse.

Victims of child abuse often tend to suffer from low self worth later in life. Both emotional and physical abuse may lead to the low self worth. The abuse leads to brainwashing of the patients’ mind that they are `a certain way’ or `they are incapable of specific things’. The memory haunts the patients up to adulthood. If someone was constantly molested and told they are useless, small discouragements that they can easily overcome may hold them back. 

Setting extremely high standards for one may later lead to lowered self esteem. Some people have been bombarded by the feelings that they are invincible and can acquire extremely high goals in life. In case they later find out that it was not all that easy to reach the set limits, low self esteem and lack of self worth may start creeping in. The patient feels they are weak and useless if they cannot work to reach the set standard of their category.

There are some common signs that would help you to recognize that a person is suffering from low self esteem. They include:

§ Intensive self-criticism: tending to exhibit self dissatisfaction      with yourself.

§ Criticism hypersensitivity: makes one vulnerable to attack and obstinate resentment from critics.

§ Extensive indecisiveness: you are unable to make decisions despite your vast knowledge since you fear making mistakes.

§ Extreme eagerness to impress others: you are not ready to say no in fear that you will fail to please others.

§ Sense of perfection: you try to accomplish everything you attempt to do perfectly. This leads to frustration and low self esteem when the perfection is tainted by blunders and mistakes.

§ Neurotic guilt: when one is corrected about some mistakes they may have done some times in the past, not specifically in a bad perspective, they keep complaining about the correction unreasonably. Failing to reach full forgiveness after positive correction is a common sign that you are suffering from low self esteem.

§ Floating hostility: low esteem can make you edgy to the extent that you always close to the point of exploding with fury irrespective of how minor the problem is. You develop a bad attitude and characteristics of a person with negative attitude of a disappointed person, feels bad about everything and unsatisfied with everything.

§ Resentful emotion: you develop jealousy whenever you see higher quality or success of other   persons.