What is Low Self-Esteem and Anxiety?

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Low Self-Esteem and Anxiety?  
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What do low self-esteem and anxiety have in
common? People suffering from low self-esteem
often overestimate challenges whilst
underestimating their own ability to be able to
deal with these. Some researchers say that people
with low self-esteem may develop this due to
childhood circumstances, others state a
biological cause whilst others postulate a
relationship with genetic influences.
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Low self-esteem can make people have a
problematic relationship with challenges in their
lives and make them live a life that is below
their potential. On the other hand, many
sufferers of low self-esteem can also live a life
thats in line with their potential. Individuals
in the latter category often suffer from anxiety
and / or depression. This is because most things
in their life that they challenge themselves to
meet, will be tackled with excessive
perfectionism and a strong sense of urgency. This
can relate to a lot of factors around them.
Someone who is at work and has low self-esteem
may over check emails or be overly meticulous
with their work. 
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They may also find it hard to delegate, because a
part of them catastrophises the implications of
giving up even a little bit of control. This
again can stem from the overestimation related to
the challenges of work and the underestimation of
their own ability to deal with these challenges.
Others will not exercise control but avoid
through the means of procrastination. This can be
done by not even starting to address or engage in
any challenges that would express their
potential. Excessive avoidance can also cause a
dream like state of existence in which most forms
of concentrated effort feel excessively difficult.
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Control and avoidance are different sides of the
same coin and are partially responsible for
maintaining low self-esteem. This is because the
overestimation of challenges and the resulting
perfectionist tendencies subconsciously confirm
that everything around them is a bigger deal than
it actually is. Just like when someone constantly
avoids future challenges and continues to
experience a sense of anxiety and excessive
distress. This is of course reinforced the more a
sufferer controls or avoids. As a result, this
can act as a driver in itself.
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Some people experience low self-esteem in
specific areas in their life and for others it is
so entrenched that it relates to all aspects of
their life. For example someone may always end up
in relationships where they are used by others.
They may people please too much and avoid
conflict in relationships, thinking that
otherwise their partner will leave them. The
controlling type may over check their partner
when they leave, thinking that its very likely
that they will cheat on them. As with the
previous examples related to work, both actions
reinforce low self-esteem tendencies and thereby
a more threatening view of reality.
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Behaviours driven by low self-esteem often incur
a short-term benefit of relieved anxiety or any
other form of distress. This is accompanied by
the long-term cost of maintaining low
self-esteem. Finding a suitable psychotherapist
in London will help you address your problems
related to low self-esteem, by looking at
changing the contingency of short-term benefit
with the implications of long-term cost. This is
done by changing relevant behaviours related to
low self-esteem. A natural consequence of this is
a short-term increase of distress with the
long-term benefit of a more beneficial view of
reality.
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The accompanied increases in self-esteem lead to
this benign view of reality. Following this, the
triggers related to low self-esteem that also
reinforced anxiety will become more and more
absent, which makes people less distressed and
able to lead much more fulfilling lives. If you
are suffering from anxiety, low self-esteem or
any other mental health problem, contact us and
we can help you find a suitable psychotherapist
in London
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