What to do about Low Self-Esteem?

Your self-esteem comes from your core beliefs about your value as a person. Bullies tend to pick on people with low self esteem because they know they can dominate them with little or no retaliation. If you want to increase your self-esteem you need to challenge and change these beliefs. This might feel like an impossible task, but there are a lot of different ways that you can do this.

Engage in work and hobbies that you enjoy - this could cover anything from learning a language, to singing, to a painting class. Think about where you feel you have some natural ability, or things which you have always wanted to try. The internet, your library and adult education colleges should have details of local clubs and classes that you might want to go along to.

Take regular exercise - physical activity is good for mental health, it has been shown to improve people’s image of themselves and sense of wellbeing. Whether you prefer gentle walking or something more active, you will almost always feel better for having done some exercise.

Try to get enough sleep - if you have trouble sleeping this can have a serious impact on how you feel about everything. Negative feelings are likely to be exaggerated and you might find you are more irritable and less confident.

Diet - eating healthily has a positive impact on your physical and mental health. Eating a well-balanced diet at regular meal-times with plenty of water and vegetables, and only occasional treats, will help you to feel more healthy and happy.

Don't compare yourself to other people. Don’t put yourself down. Get into the habit of thinking and saying positive things about yourself to yourself. Accept compliments. Use self-help books and websites to help you change your beliefs. Spend time with positive supportive people. Acknowledge your positive qualities and things you are good at. Be assertive, don’t allow people to treat you with a lack of respect. Be helpful and considerate to others.

If you are experiencing significant anxiety, depression or stress then it would be a good idea to seek more professional support. Self-help groups, websites and online forums can also be a good option if you want to talk to people who have been through similar experiences.

Good luck :-)

To build self esteem you need to prove to yourself that you are really good at certain things.Try playing a sport which you can play well.Improve in it and you will see that your confidence will improve to a great extent.Good luck and take care.

ur yahoo name craig and ur girl. maybe that the reason.

every1 had dat issues. some ppl just hide it pretty well than others. stop thinking about tat and try to get ur life in control. first by achieving whatever ur goal in life is whether its short term goal or long term goals. be persistence about it. put away all other negative thought, every time that thought came to u, snap urself back to reality, every minute of ur life, think about how to improve ur life or others. But, remember, when i say the others, doesnt mean achieving what other ppl want u to achieve. theres million ppl outhere, with different characters and needs, if ur try to fulfill every single person wish, especially when it require long time, its gonna be insane, and wasting time. so, if u dont really know what to do with urself, u still cant figure out what ur goals are, and u think u really need to someone to tell u what to do, makesure that someone is wise enough, or had same interest in getting the best out for u. as example ur parents.

we are not perfect, we will never be. once we perfected on one particular things, the level of perfectness of other things will decrease eventually. so, just move on what u think u do best, not trying to compete so much with others with different ability, coz if theyre fixed with that ability since birth, u will never going to achieved more than theirs. if theyre trained to be that good enough in that particular matter since birth, and u just step in, u;ll never gonna be as good as them.

eliminate the distraction. is the key point to be focus. distraction most of it came from ourself, sometimes we're indulging, pampering ourself too much. i want to get A on math, exam tomorrow morning, but i sit in front of tv, eating hamburger. thats urself, ridiculing urself. thats urself bullying urself, and u expecting others to not to bully u. embrace urself first, have respect for ur own self first.

low self esteem means low self respect. u dont trust urself to be excellent. what u feel when ur parents said to ur face, that u can never be good. ur dumb. ur ugly. ur pig. what urself think about urself have far more great negative effect than what others think of u. coz sometimes ppl doesnt really mean what they said, but when urself thinking like that, that is the truth that u feed to ur mind every single seconds of ur life.

Try learning to tell the truth.

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