Self-esteem and Mental Health.

Welcome to another amazing week, it’s a great privilege knowing that you look forward to this every week, it is something I do not take for granted and I put a lot of myself into writing to you every week. I hope you’re having an amazing start to the week, as I usually say, the new week carries great opportunities and you can seize the ones you need by believing in yourself and keeping your focus.

This week, I want to talk to you about something that is key to enhancing your focus on the things that matter in your life, there is a state of mind you carry, a mental state that gives you the level to focus and constantly work on the things that matter to you while there is also another state of mind, a mental state that hinders you from focusing on the things that are important in your life.

Every aspect of your life depends on what you produce from your mind and the results of the production that goes on in your mind cause a chain reaction that affects several areas of your life. The state of your mind determines the level of your self-esteem and the level of your self-esteem touches every aspect of your life including your mental health.

This is so important because the outcome that you produce from your life depends on the state of your mind, which is the source of your self-esteem and the level of your self-esteem determines if you’ll be able to cope with the mental requirements that life will continuously demand of you.

Mental Health Illness.

Mental health illness is a topic with a wide range that this issue can’t cover, the focus here is how the level of your self-esteem contributes to your general mental wellbeing. Putting it simply, mental health illnesses are disorders that affect your mood, emotions, thinking and general behaviour, these are the starting point to the deeper effects it has on your life and the level of your self-esteem helps you or makes the condition worse.

The Definition of Self-esteem.

Self-esteem is defined by Nathaniel Branden, one of the pioneer teachers in the field as your ability to think and cope with life. Both its challenges and its goodness.

To understand the impact your self-esteem will have on your mental health, you have to internalize the definition of self-esteem and understand that the level of your self-esteem will always be evident in the way you think and one of the factors that are key to the state of your mental health is the way you think.

The way you think and feel from time to time depends on your ability or your confidence in your right to be happy, to feel worthy and deserving of the goodness of life and if you cannot think in this manner because you’re suffering from low self-esteem, it will affect the way you see yourself and your mental health generally.

How You See Yourself.

The ability to cope with different things that can negatively affect your mental health depends on how you see yourself while how you see and carry yourself is determined by the level of your self-esteem.

It’s easier to fall into anxiety, depression and consistent bad mood if you see yourself as a loser or someone undeserving of the good things of life but if you see yourself as deserving of the happiness and great things of life, you’ll be able to pick yourself up and go for something better even when you’re experiencing a bad time.

How you see yourself determines the way you will carry yourself, treat yourself and allow others to treat you, all these are things that are important to your mental health – the treatment you give yourself and the ones you allow other people to give you will either strengthen your mental health or ruin it.

If you see yourself negatively, you’ll tolerate negative things in your life, if you see yourself positively, you’ll always carry yourself positively and only allow positive things around you, these are the kind of details that impacts your mental health.

Build a Great Wall.

Good self-esteem is a great wall that protects you from a lot of bad things in life – it’s a security that enhances confidence in yourself and improves your ability to face different challenges without losing yourself.

There can be bad situations that affect your mental health from time to time, how you deal with these situations depends on the form of security you have in yourself – the level of trust you have in your abilities and how adequate you feel you are to life.

When you have great self-esteem, that will give you the needed security to always stand and face any form of challenge you might face in life. Good self-esteem is your great wall, it’s the needed fence to keep away things that can hurt your mental health, it’s a needed security system you must build for yourself.

Mental Health, Sharing and Self-esteem.

One of the most important ways to get help with mental health illness is by speaking up and sharing what is going on with you, either with a professional, your close circle of people or a specific community of people you belong with. The certain thing here is that you must be able to speak up and share if you want to get help.

The problem with sharing and self-esteem is that, when you’re suffering from low self-esteem, sharing doesn’t look like you’re putting yourself in a position to get help because the nature of low self-esteem will always put you in an adversarial position with other people. When you’re suffering from low self-esteem, you’ll see sharing and speaking up as opening up yourself to attacks from people, you’ll regard sharing your vulnerability as weakness instead of strength.

When you have good self-esteem, you’re assured of who you are, and you understand that sharing and speaking up about times when you’re vulnerable doesn’t change who you are and it doesn’t mean people will take advantage of you but when people suffer from low self-esteem, they’re always guarded and find it hard to open up themselves – this is something that negatively impacts the mental health.

If there is one most important thing that you must take away from this issue this week is that good self-esteem is an important tool to manage your mental health in a world that is constantly making more mental demands of you every day. Good self-esteem gives you the assurance of properly managing and sustaining good mental health, without good self-esteem, there is no way to escape various mental health illnesses.

You know how much I enjoy this and it’s always a great privilege writing to you every week. Have an amazing week and talk to you soon again.

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