If someone in the environment suffers from a low self -esteem, one should not dismiss their feeling, but should be careful. An expert gives tips.
They are colloquially not as good in family, friends or colleagues-people who have a slightly pronounced self-esteem-colloquially: an inferiority complex-and thus struggle to be as good as others? But how as an outsider: R deal with it?
Not an easy situation. In general, the following applies: “The closer the respective person is, the sooner I can gently appeal to my impressions of her,” says Gregor Müller, psychological psychotherapist in Bochum.
Low self -esteem: help to look at positive things
The conversation should be faced and designed at eye level. The outsider should not “talk away” the feeling of inferiority of the other. On the other hand, it is better to look at positive things and praise, for example: “I think you do the top!”
Important so that the appreciation also works: justify why the or the other does something well. Because convincing arguments in particular could help increase the self -esteem of the counterpart.
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