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self esteem issues

Posted by jerimycoplo on January 25, 2004, at 3:54:20

I was wondering if anyone knew what self esteem is all about. I have ocd and generalized anxiety and suffer from a rollercoaster self esteem. There are days when i am supremely confident and other days when i cannot look people in the eyes because of my anxiety and low self esteem. Is there a biological basis for this. I believe my self esteem issues are really stunting my potential for succes especially socially. I don't understand this. Does self esteem have to do with neurotransmitters? I know everybody has ups and downs but it seems to me that my self image and esteem are alot more inconsistent then anybody esle i know. To better explain it it's almost like i have a variable perception of who i am. it's really horrible. i am not able to maintain my self image for more then a couple of days and sometimes a couple of hours. My self concept and therefore my self esteem is therefore very unstable and this has created many probelms especially with people. For example, I was dating this girl and a week into the relationship , she started elling m e that i was acting all weird and then things fell apart. This was because I just all of a sudden started feeling worthless and this made me act weird and strange to her. There's nothing i know that could have caused it. The only thing that has worked for me is lifting weights. It seems that somehow, becoming muscular makes me feel worthy for extended peiods of time. This has led to me lifting 3-4 hours every day. It is highly disfunctional and i don't have time to do much else, but are the alternatives? if i don't lift i will be passive and feel inferior and depressed, not apporach people, be unable to act normal around my aqointances and friends. So the only way to keep myself acting normal for me is lifting obsessively. does anyone know /relate to my issues? any meds able to fix that? is this part of ocd somehow? and is it possible that my generlized anxiety is actually cauing me to have low self esteem?
thankx and sorry for the long post


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