Moment 170: The Scientific Method For Unstoppable Confidence: Professor Steve Peters

Uh If I'm thirty odd. You know, and I've got low self esteem. I'm I'm thirty three, got low self esteem.

And I came to you. Where would you begin with trying to help and that low self esteem was manifesting in abusive relationships, bad work relationships? very negative sort of feelings about myself and maybe even some impulsive behaviors. You know, I'm I'm eating too much around I don't know, whatever. Where would you start with me?

Okay. The first I mean just so And people say, Oh wow, that's a strange starting point. I'm a doctor, so the first is make sure you're actually okay. I'm okay. Because if someone were uh presenting with this, they could be in depression and if and that can present in many ways. Typically it's m low mood and um loss of uh pleasure in everything and lots of energy. But that doesn't have to be So I mustn't miss that. So I've make sure your mind is not ill. You don't need treatment. Now we assume that this is longstanding and what you've done is you what you described is a lot of maladaptive Coping strategies. So I eat too much.

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