[silentoneinhere]

I am new here.

I battle from low self esteem.

I am really glad that there is a forum especially for this.

I am glad that I am not alone.

I have always been this way.

All my life really. And I'm not sure why. I can't think of exactly what caused it? It's not really even about how I physically look (if that makes sense?) - although yes, I think about this too.

I constantly worry about what other people think of me, and I don't know why.

There's a part of me that thinks I should not be so sensitive to what others think of me. But a part of me is conditioned to. People can say the smallest of things to me really and trigger me. I don't know why I let it get to me. I look at other people and I think I know right. They wouldn't care. So why do I constantly worry about other people's opinions of me? I don't get it.

[CANDC]

Hi silentoneinhere, glad to see you found Psych Central (PC). I tripped over it while doing a google search. I feel as glad to find it as you. You are not alone here. People here care.

I have worried about what people think of me since I was a little kid and I learned if I said or did the wrong thing I got punished. It was an adaption that helped me survive childhood but is no longer useful. In fact it gets in the way sometime.

But the other side of that is I am more sensitive to reading peoples subtle cues.