Low Self Esteem and its Impact on a Child's Psyche

As I told in my last blog and which Jolien and Angelie their blogs also agreed with, is that peer pressure is mainly about self esteem.

The next article that I read, told me something more about the impact that a low self esteem can cause to a child.
When we are young, we are more vulnerable to threats and those could affect our self esteem. Without knowing it, we often suffer from these old threats when being a teenager.

Low self esteem turns teenagers often to an addiction such as drug addiction, smoking and alcoholism. They are also much more susceptible to peer pressure in their search for acceptance.  And all of this could eventually lead to a depression or even eating disorders (such as Jolien said in her blog) and in the worst case end with suicide (suicide rates are still increasing over the last years among young people because they can’t tolerate the high pressure they are feeling to achieve higher goals).
The best way is to overcome right at the beginning!

Martijn Schelstraete

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