Low self-esteem symptoms include faulty self-image, lack of trust, irrational self-reports, lack of self-confidence, and addictive behaviors. Negative comments in childhood often cause these symptoms, leading to unrealistic expectations and storytelling behavior.
Symptoms of low self-esteem range from a faulty self-image and an inability to discern who and when to trust, to irrational and biased self-reports. Other symptoms include lack of self-confidence and obsessive-compulsive and addictive behaviors. People suffering from low self-esteem will also make overly critical comments about themselves and others, as well as exhibit highly reactionary behavior patterns. Rigidity, self-centered behavior, and storytelling are common traits of struggling with low self-esteem in adults and children. One symptom of someone with very low self-esteem is unreasonable expectations placed on others.
People who suffer from low self-esteem typically tend to exhibit a common set of behaviors associated with the disease. It is commonly believed that these symptoms result from negative comments made to the person when they were a child, usually made by someone who should have been someone they trusted. Symptoms of low self-esteem first manifest themselves in the inability to adequately discern who and when to trust. People with low self-esteem don’t trust people to be nice, polite, or trustworthy. This often leads to low self-esteem, such as making negative comments about oneself and expecting to hear the affirmations repeated from others.
While lacking any kind of self-confidence, low self-esteem leads to the perceived mind reading of those with whom the low self-esteem holder comes in contact. The person projects their feelings of lack of trust into the other person’s perceived mind and thinks that everyone involved in their world also feels this lack of trust in them. Lack of self-confidence often leads to other actions that indicate low self-esteem, such as drug abuse, overeating, or sexual addiction, which are often performed in an attempt to gain approval from those with whom the person interacts.
Perhaps one of the most indicative behaviors of those with low self-esteem is the practice of storytelling. This behavior causes the person to create a fantasy world where they believe they know what other people are saying about them. This often leads a person to place unreasonable expectations on other people. This leads to broken relationships as the partner with low self-esteem sets up test after test for the partner to demonstrate how they feel about the relationship. The tests are commonly organized in such a way that the partner is unable to win or positively meet the criteria proposed to demonstrate his love for her.
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