2A
EVIDENCE OF A SLIPPED SELF-ESTEEM
1. You become critical, fault-finding, harsh, and demanding with others because you have again become critical, fault-finding, harsh and demanding with yourself.
2. You become involved in value judgments and angry arguments (especially with your loved ones) because of the low self-esteem need to control, to be "right" or to straighten out others.
3. You become aggressive or withdrawn, depending on your individual behavior pattern.
4. You start talking about yourself, your interests, and activities, instead of sensitively listening and responding to others.
5. You again have a need to impress others with your prominent friends, achievements, possessions and importance.
6. You are concerned how you come across to others.
7. You find it very difficult to say "no". (you again become a "people pleaser").
8. You are again a compulsive perfectionist.
9. You experience difficulty in admitting mistakes.
10. You engage in arguments rather than discussions because of an intense need for confirmation and agreement.
11. You again have a compulsive need for attention and approval.
12. You no longer "feel good" on a day-to-day basis.
Source: Building Self-Esteem Course Southeastern Community College,
September, 1984
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