How much of a link is there between depression and low self esteem?

No personally I tend to believe such a link is not really apparent. Usually a true depressive illness seems to have no single obvious cause. It is sometimes a consequence of certain physical illnesses like a viral infection or hormonal disorders after child birth, and in many cases drugs like sleeping tablets and oral contraceptives seem to be a contributing factor in starting it off.

But feelings of personal failure and low self esteem do not seem to be dominant in the minds of most people who go on to develop depressive illnesses. Moreover people who do fail badly in some venture such as in a qualification exam for their career seem to react more by working much harder to ensure they do not fail again than by becoming depressed and feeling themselves worthless. Depressive illness when it has become established is usually most apparently manifested in thoughts and feelings of sadness, hopelessness and pessimism and a general loss of interest in everything in their life, an unwillingness to get out of bed and do anything combined with a sense of reduced emotional well being, that is by a disinterest in retrieving any past failure in their life.

Yes, severely depressed people do then often then harbor feelings of guilt or worthlessness. But the evidence seems to me to be that low self esteem is never the key ingredient creating the thoughts that trigger mild depression, so much as anxiety and variable mood, and women in particularly often seem to have fits of crying that seem to occur for no apparent reason. Manic depression in fact highlights the opposite, that is an inflated belief in self worth which in the case of bipolar depression becomes a swing to the opposite extreme of disinterest in everything in their life and then after a period back to the inflated belief of their self worth.

Depression is a negative state of body and mind. It consists of different types of symptoms such as dark emotions, negative thinking patterns, restrained behaviors, and even physical aspects. Low self-esteem is another negative state of mind.

Someone’s negative thinking about his self-worth is known as low self-esteem. The link between depression and low self-esteem is the thinking style. Both the persons think negatively.

I always say your highest potential is found in your greatest suffering. People with low self-esteem is afraid of the capacity of their inner giant to change their lives. Low esteem is usually a sign that an altogether powerful and latent genius is being contained.

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