As a teen, does your changes in body affects your self-esteem?

If so, how does it affect you?

Have you heard about the phrase “ I am Ugly ” said by other?

We are going to discuss all about the self-esteem, body esteem or body image and Common eating
disorders

first how the self-esteem and body esteem really affects us?

It affects your mental health and how you behave.

People with High self esteem has:

1. they know themselves well
2. are realistic
3. have friends that like and appreciate them for you they are
4. feel in control of their lives
5. know their own strengths and weaknesses

What are the difference

Self esteem is about the individuals feelings about their worth as a person while body esteem is how an
individual feels about their body

Why Are Self-Esteem and Body Image Important?

Self-esteem is all about how much people value themselves, the pride they feel in themselves, and how
worthwhile they feel. Self-esteem is important because feeling good about yourself can affect how you
act. A person who has high self-esteem will make friends easily, is more in control of his or her behavior,
and will enjoy life more.

Body image is how someone feels about his or her own physical appearance.

What are the reasons why do we gain low self esteem?

First is puberty and development, changes sucks, and so does the puberty, when puberty hits most of
us, we know that we are mostly going to hate it, because of the changes in our body that are really hard
to accept and made us self conscious about “ what are my friends going to think about “ kind of stuff.
Media Image and Outside Influence

When we tried to compare ourselves to the person we idolize, we intend to made ourselves feel like the
worst person, because of the almost no resemblance to everything from shape of body to
characteristics, when we compare ourselves to the person we adore and idolizes the most, including
celebrities, so we tried to copy them so that we could fit in to the trends and whats fresh and to atleast
make yourself look good to the eyes of the other and yourself

Families and school

It is very bad to have a comparison between very different things, because mostly, this is the starting
point of making ourselves feel bad, when our mother tried to compare us to someone that you know
who is 10 times better that you, you know that there will be a hard feelings involved, when a teacher
tried to scold you and segue the comparison between you and the most excellent student in your
classroom, you will feel belittled, and will make your self esteem go down

The common eating disorder that has been pestering on the minds of the youth are Anorexia Nervosa
and Bulimia, they are mostly the same but the difference is the body result, Anorexia patient will always
have a very slim and underweight body that almost only skin and bones can only be seen, while Bulimia
patients will always have a average weight and body.