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Thursday, July 31, 2003

self-esteem


Here is a tidbit about self-esteem. I was talking to a friend the other day and we were talking about childhood fears or something along those lines. I told him I used to have this really sickening feeling where out of the blue, whether I would be in a car ride, walking outside, at home, just about anywhere, I would have this feeling of being very naked. Naked as in nude, like for some odd reason, I would feel as if I had no clothes on and everyone (eventhough no one was looking at me) would be looking at me, seeing through me. It was just a really sickening feeling in my gut. Of course, I would always be fully clothed, but psychologically, I felt naked. I said that used to happen to me a lot when I was younger, but as I grew up, it stopped happening. The only reason I had brought that up with my friend was that that feeling came back this summer. It happened out of the blue, and that old nasty feeling came back. I think physically, I had almost immediately crossed my arms in front of me and was clenching myself rather tightly and sunk down in the seat I was sitting in when it happened. My friend thinks it has to do with my self-esteem. Maybe he's right. Maybe when I'm at a low point and not feeling so good about myself, this happens. But knowing that this happens, I truly wonder what triggered my low self-esteem when I was younger and wonder why it is happening now. Luckily, it's starting to subside, there was awhile last month that it happened more often then I'd like.
Okay, there's my tidbit about self-esteem. I think sometimes when things are at an all time low psychologically, one can make it into a physical symptom unknowingly.
Blah, so there is my "...and maybe more" part to my blogger site as my subtitle says.
I'm still working on that thing that I talked about in my previous blog. It's slowly working...I think.

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