The following questions are related to ‘Self-esteem’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: After attending religious pre-marital classes with our local pastor for 13 weeks, he asked a question he had asked us many times over the months, “Had we set a date”? My wife looked at me and said “What about next week”? and what started out as a simple ceremony became more and more involved. [...]
Q: I have severe mood swings and I get mad at things that don’t matter like my hair. I hold up everybody trying to make my hair look right, and before I leave the house I have to say I know my hair looks like crap. I can’t hug anybody or say I love you [...]
Q: According to my research (and I am honest about these things) I have had at least a medium level of depression for over a decade, along with a few very serious major depressive episodes and panic disorder. At this point, I am recently married, living on my own, and generally doing what I thought [...]
Q: How can I help my daughter recover from the effects of a year long emotionally abusive affair? She is a bright, intelligent, attractive 24-year-old girl, studying at university. Yet the affair has left her deeply depressed, and convinced that she cannot go on without this man, who has caused nothing but total misery. Things [...]
Q: I’ve been feeling down for quite a bit. I am a 54-year-old woman and have had these bouts for many years. I am about 75 pounds overweight and have put a lot of judgment on myself regarding this flaw. When I’m participating in life, I am strong, generous, optimistic, caring and like a calm [...]
Q: I am a 44-year-old woman and a mother of a three-year-old. I have a low self esteem even though people tell me I am very smart and capable. I always feel I cannot learn and keep the information. I have struggled in every school to keep my attention (focus) and have not succeeded. I [...]
Q: I’m a 39-year-old female who divorced after 12 years of marriage two years ago. It took me awhile to realize that I had been in an emotionally abusive relationship with my ex-husband, and only woke up after his lover called me to tell me that he had been cheating on me for several years. [...]
