Increase your self-esteem by using the strategy ‘escape reality’ (1 minute read)

This post “Increase your self-esteem by managing fear” is about how you can increase your self-esteem by understanding your feelings.   Increase your self-esteem by managing fear: This post continues with fear. As mentioned in the last post, fear is a powerful, primitive and lifesaving emotion. Fear makes us aware of dangers and entails important…

This post “Increase your self-esteem by understanding how sexualisation can affect you” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by managing your thoughts and feelings.   Increase your self-esteem by understanding how sexualisation can affect you: This defense mechanism sexualisation is about transforming fear, pain or other overwhelming experiences into something connected to erotic arousal. It…

This post “Increase your self-esteem by understanding how you cope with strong feelings and anxiety” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by managing your thoughts and feelings.   Increase your self-esteem by understanding how you cope with strong feelings and anxiety: Defense mechanisms are often called involuntary coping mechanisms. Involuntary means that we all use…

This post “Increase your self-esteem by understanding others impact on you – projective identification) continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by managing your thoughts and feelings.   Increase your self-esteem by understanding others impact on you: Projective identification is an immature defense mechanism. It is when one person’s feelings or anxiety are transferred into another…

There are many anxiety inducing patterns often called cognitive distortions or thought traps. These are ways of thinking that seem true but are in fact not reasonable, realistic or relevant to the situation. Noticing when we are using thought traps and countering them is an important part of traditional CBT-exercises that also can reduce symptoms…

This post “Increase your self-esteem by stopping harming yourself” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by managing your thoughts and feelings.   Increase your self-esteem by stopping harming yourself: Turning against the self implies redirecting feelings towards oneself that were originally directed towards someone else. It is an immature defense mechanism about punishing or harming…