Your self esteem is like your body. It needs nourishment to keep it healthy. Your fat free diet is equivalent to stress free days.

The bad news is that we all get stressed everyday. There are simply times when we feel very bad about ourselves. Among the common reasons why people have shattered self esteem lately are people losing their jobs, demotion in a career, and losing your significant other heartbreaks. Such events create stressors that can threaten how one respects and trusts himself. An unsuccessful attempt to self actualize is such a big stressor that it could lead someone to become depressed and suicidal.

A high self esteem is crucial to have and the lack of it spells disaster. Like a career, it takes years to build and develop and one setback to make it fall apart.

How is your self-esteem for now? How do you value yourself? Do you curse at yourself or indulge in a fit of self pity? We all feel down in the dumps once in a while but feeling low frequently is not healthy and may lead to serious problems like depression.

There are many factors that can build and break your self esteem. It starts with how loved you feel at home, how accepted you are in your circle of friends, and how much you value yourself and the abilities you think you have. Eventually, when you grow up, your self-worth becomes defined and more constant and impacts how you think about yourself and how you treat others both in your work and relationships.
Optimism, independence, good relationships and resilience are traits that you need to develop a healthy self-image. If you aren’t so lucky to have all these, then, find ways to get them. If you have everything in tact, an emotional bomb will find it hard to break you. (more…)