Causes of low self esteem
As you know being with a narcissists can bring down yourself esteem. Do you suffer from low self esteem? To truly work towards building a stronger self esteem it is important to understand the orgins of your problems. There is typically a defining factor, sometimes a contributing factor.
Growing up around parents or someone who had self esteem issues. This can cause a child to develop similar issues. It's learned behavior that follows you into adulthood and throughout your life.
Authority figures: whether you had a parent or other authority figures can be unsupportive of your decisions and accomplishments, which makes you feel your not good enough no matter how hard you tried. These often unrealistic expectations can being out the worst in anyone.
In other cases, there is such a thing as being involved. Parents or other authority figures that put too much responsibility or stress to be perfect on a child often do so out of love but the fact causing pain and anguish that come in the form of seld esteem. Again no one can live up to unrealistic expectations.
Unstable childhood: an unstable childhood can make a child feel insecure. And those feelings can't reflect on a child's self worth.
Traumatic events in any form can cause low self esteem
Bad relationships especially one that's emotionally abusive.
Influential friends there is some people who don't realize is project their own self esteem issues on others by making them feel bad about themselves.
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