Poll: How's your self esteem?

[Juste Goose]

Just felt like asking. How do you feel about yourself?

Right now I'm slightly higher than usual, since I recently lost a bunch of weight and have been getting more attention from girls as a result. Still, I don't think very highly of myself and tend to agonize over every mistake and embarrassment.

Where would you rate yourself?

 

[Link_to_Future]

So I've always had irrational self esteem issues.

If looked at objectively, I've always performed above average and I've never really suffered. However, I have an unfortunate knack for self deprecation and self loathing. No matter how well I'm doing or how peachy everything should be, I'm always discontent with the way I'm going about things.

I know I'm a jerk. I know I could be better. I work at it but I fail at an alarmingly frequent rate.

So my self esteem isn't good. But the low levels of confidence tend to translate into additional effort to fix it. I use that to keep myself moving forward.

 

[Shadowstar38]

I'm fairly sure I'm the smartest and most successful poster on this site. Your life has been enriched just by knowing me.

Captcha: high horse

I don't need your approval *****

 

[krazykidd]

I'm awsome and my life is awsome . My self esteem is high . However , if i was fo be honest and objective , my life sucks and i should kill myself . However , fake it till you make it works , and because of that i think i am awsome thus others think i'm awsome .

 

[FootloosePhoenix]

My self-esteem ranges from "Did I learn to become so much better than most people or was I just born this way?" to "My life if worthless; might as well just give up now," depending on the day. So, um...I would say "other." I suppose that's not very healthy. At this particularly moment though, I'd say I'm just about in the middle, with a slight leaning towards "I'm an above-average individual."

 

[A_Parked_Car]

I probably hover around the 'hate myself' category to be honest. Maybe a bit higher than that as of late.

 

[manic_depressive13]

Is it healthy to have self esteem based on how you compare to other people? What if I'm not a narcissist or an arrogant ass. Why can't I vote "I'm not perfect but I'm happy enough with who I am".

Not that I would, because I hate myself.

 

[w9496]

I'd say that I have a pretty good self esteem. Things have certainly been worse for me before.

Of course, I'm working twice the amount of time I'm used to doing these next few weeks, so I may be singing a different tune later.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I didn't even read past the first option because I always say that humorously. I had to vote for it.

I think I'm an average person, and I think the world is full of a lot of averages who are just as good as me.

 

[Yopaz]

My self esteem is fairly low, but I don't hate myself. I love myself, I just see a ton of reasons no-one else could. I know I could be worse, but I can't say I'm great. In some aspects I'm OK in others I am downright terrible.

 

[Last Hugh Alive]

Voted the second-last option. I'm basically a bum with little social or work skills but I know I'm not a complete piece of shit as long as I maintain my empathy for others.

 

[akai]

I feel pretty good about myself. Sure I'm not perfect, but then again, nobody is. I'm just very optimistic and I like to focus on the good stuff that happens in my life rather than obsess about what went wrong.

 

[Rariow]

It fluctuates wildly. One day I'll be convinced I'm the best, smartest, most handsome person on the planet, and the next I'll be pretty sure I'm a worthless waste of space.

What's even stranger is that my mood is independent of this. A day when I feel good about myself doesn't mean I'm going to be in a good mood, or viceversa.

Man, my mind is a weird place.

 

[Kyber]

It's love/hate relationship.
We have our ups and downs, but we get the job done.

 

[SmokingBomber465]

This is less a question of self-esteem and more a question that speaks of arrogance. You can have fantastic self-esteem without being a narcissist.

 

[Thomas Barnsley]

My problem is I hang around some REALLY smart people, all smarter than me, and my intelligence is pretty much my pride characteristic. So that doesn't feel good, but when I do talk to people outside my friend group... That feels good.

 

[Queen Michael]

I love myself, I think I'm grand... I go to the movies and hold my hand...

 

[Padwolf]

Well it's not too bad at the moment. I kinda like myself. I do need to lose a bit of weight but there isn't a rush to do so. I do need a job though, I feel a little bit sick about myself because I do not have a job yet. I'm a fairly intelligent person and I'm quite pleased about that. I don't know. I'm happy with myself at the moment.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

I probably fit under "I hate myself".

I don't know why, but everything that I do good I think I do "at expectations", as in, what I am supposed to do.

I frequently remind myself that outside of my "observable universe" there are people who can wipe the floor with me in any of my "specialist subjects" so I am nothing special.

I can not keep promises, so I never make promises.

I want to do things that I never do because of either laziness or apathy.

I've never been in a fight that I won/I never "won" a hostile confrontation.

I fear a lot of things I shouldn't, most especially other people(closer to irrational universal distrust, because I feel that if I don't open up to others, they can't hurt me) but that's because I follow Machiavelli's philosophy of "all men are evil, and when given agency, will act upon it".

I dislike praise (often, but not always) and I immediately want to change the topic to something else.

I believe that I am an incredibly boring person.

I am afraid of trying to pursue a relationship because I know that I will get rejected, so there's no point to it.

And that's about it, most of that self loathing is hidden behind snark and occasional references.