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Assistant Host: Cathy Lin
Topic： Building Self-esteem
(Source: http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/publ ... uction.asp)
Most people feel bad about themselves from time to time. Feelings of low self-esteem may be triggered by being treated poorly by someone else recently or in the past, or by a person’s own judgments of him or herself. This is normal. However, low self-esteem is a constant companion for too many people, especially those who experience depression, anxiety, phobias, psychosis, delusional thinking, or who have an illness or a disability. If you are one of these people, you may go through life feeling bad about yourself needlessly. Low self-esteem keeps you from enjoying life, doing the things you want to do, and working toward personal goals.
You have a right to feel good about yourself. However, it can be very difficult to feel good about yourself when you are under the stress of having symptoms that are hard to manage, when you are dealing with a disability, when you are having a difficult time, or when others are treating you badly. At these times, it is easy to be drawn into a downward spiral of lower and lower self-esteem. For instance, you may begin feeling bad about yourself when someone insults you, you are under a lot of pressure at work, or you are having a difficult time getting along with someone in your family. Then you begin to give yourself negative self-talk, like "I'm no good." That may make you feel so bad about yourself that you do something to hurt yourself or someone else, such as getting drunk or yelling at your children.
Vocabulary:
1. delusional adj.錯覺;妄想 2.phobia N.恐懼症;懼怕
3.psychosis N.精神病 4. insult v.t 侮辱,羞辱
Questions:
1. What’s your own definition of “Self-Esteem”?
2. Do you think you lack confidence in yourself?
3. How can we strengthen our self-esteem?
4. Try to list some characteristics of high self-esteem and low self-esteem.
5. What are your opinions of the differences between “self-esteem” and “persistence”?
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