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Self-Esteem and Mental Health

Learn how self-esteem impacts mental health and discover the benefits of good communication skills. Explore ways to improve self-esteem and manage emotions effectively for a healthier mindset. Understand mental disorders and seek appropriate help when needed.

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Self-Esteem and Mental Health

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  1. Self-Esteem and Mental Health

  2. Self Esteem Measure of how much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself

  3. Benefits • Increased respect • Increased ability to reach goals • Increased willingness to try • Increased feeling of value

  4. Risks of Low Self Esteem • Insecurity • Disrespect • Vulnerable • Depressed • Drug use • Pessimistic • Destructive behavior

  5. Improving your Self Esteem • Use positive self talk • Act with integrity • Choose supportive friends • Accept yourself

  6. Good Communication Skills • Prevent misunderstandings • Build healthy relationships • Express yourself

  7. Communication Styles • Passive • Aggressive • Assertive

  8. Communication Styles • Scenario: Someone cuts in front of you in line. • Passive: You let them • Aggressive: You say “Well aren’t you special”. • Assertive: You say “Excuse me, but I believe I am next in line”.

  9. Speaking Skills • The way you communicate • Voice volume • Tone and pitch • I and You messages • Empathy

  10. Listening Skills • Active listening • Paraphrasing • Body Language

  11. 20% of children suffer from a mental, emotional or behavioral disorder.

  12. Mental Health • State of mental well-being in which one can cope with the demands of daily life

  13. Mentally and Emotionally Healthy People have: • A sense of control • Ability to endure failures and frustrations • Ability to see events positively • Ability to express emotions in a healthy way

  14. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

  15. Expressing Emotions • How do you respond to an experience? • Do others respond to your responses? • Are you easy to understand?

  16. Managing Emotions • Talk it out • Blow off some steam • Be creative • Anger results from frustration or helplessness • Fear can protect us from danger • Guilt alerts you that you are going against your values • Jealousy is caused by a fear of something you own or love • Loneliness makes you feel isolated from others

  17. A Defense Mechanism • Is an unconscious thought or behavior used to avoid experiencing unpleasant emotions. • Compensation • Daydreaming • Denial • Displacement • Idealization • Projection • Rationalization • Regression • Repression • sublimation

  18. Mental Disorders • Illness that affects a person’s thoughts.

  19. Types of Mental Disorders • Too much or too little sleep • Feeling extremely sad • Unexplained mood changes • Drug or alcohol abuse • Inability to concentrate • Extreme anxiety or irrational fear • Personality changes • False perception of reality

  20. Depression • Lack of energy • Withdrawal from people • Loss of appetite or overeating • Too little or too much sleep • Feelings of helplessness or hopelessness

  21. Mental Disorders • Depression • ADHD • Panic Disorder • OCD • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) • Eating Disorders • Hypochondria • Bipolar Disorder • Schizophrenia

  22. Help • Psychotherapy • Group Therapy • Medication

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