The following questions are related to ‘Self-esteem’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Licensed Psychologist.
Q: How can I stop my grandmother’s and mother’s negative personalities from passing on to me? My grandmother always was on my mother’s case. She can say nothing positive, she’s always criticizing her, and she does it to me as well. My mother does it to me too; they are awful. My grandmother raised me, […]
Q: I am frustrated by how I keep eating and eating without stopping. This problem began when my mother divorced my father because he sexually abused my older sister. I am always fighting with my mother and think that she hates me because I remind her of my father. I’m really frustrated and always seem […]
Q: I want to go to therapy. I have talked to my parents about it, and they’ve said they’re not going to take me because they don’t think I need it. I have a lot of self doubt, and I feel I cannot amount to anything in life. I feel this way because of my […]
Q: I am an Indian male, age 21. I recently got pantsed in front of all my friends (six people, all boys) two times. It is so embarrassing. After getting pantsed, I got interested in pantsing others and getting pantsed. I am worried about this perverted thought and am unable to come out of it. […]
Q: For some time now, everything seems to have been falling apart. My father left when I was four and my mother remarried a few years later to my stepfather. My stepfather had an alcohol problem: every time he drank, he verbally and physically abused my mother, even after my mother became pregnant with his […]
Q: I live with my boyfriend, and when he does suspicious things and I confront him, he tells me that I’m not confident and that I need to work on my self-esteem. He says that he sees suspicious things with me as well, but if I’m going to cheat I’m going to cheat. He says […]
Q: I’m a sophomore university student. It’s known that university students love hanging out with their friends and meeting up with new people and interacting with different types of people. But I’m not one of those students. I try my best to stay away from my friends and colleagues. I don’t try to interact with […]
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