How to improve self esteem - Depression Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
Probably the biggest thing to help my self-esteem is just the idea that nothing really matters. I call it optimistic nihilism, but the idea that in the end as long as you're good between God or whatever spiritual source you have, then whatever other people think doesn't really matter. And this has led me to be more bold because I don't have to worry about what the boy in my chem class is thinking or what my roommate thinks of if I'm doing something kind of weird. And of course, I'm respectful, but that's helped me to just have confidence because I know that I'm doing good between me and my God.
Video 2 Transcript
I've been given a few good tips over the last few years on how to improve my self-esteem, and one thing I learned which is very helpful, and I try to practice it as much as I can, is when you think someone's looking at you and thinking bad things about you, you've got to think, well maybe she was looking at me and thinking, oh she looks good, you know, I like what she's wearing, or she is pretty, or, you know, instead of thinking, oh she's looking at me like I'm horrible or something, think the good things about what she might be thinking, or he might be thinking about you, and try and change your way of thinking to positiveness.
Video 3 Transcript
Something that my therapist used to work with me about my self-esteem because it was low, I mean it still quite is, but it's better. What we did is basically I would just say one, two, three things that I just like about myself and it didn't have to be like big things. I could just say I like my fingers I guess and it seems small and it seemed very silly to me but as the time goes on I'm able to say more things that I like about myself but I just started with little things just I like my fingers and now I can say I like my body. So that's really helpful I would say.
Video 4 Transcript
Something I have started to do because I saw this idea on social media is to print out a picture of your younger self, maybe one that you really like, and to put it in your bathroom mirror or wherever you have a mirror. And whenever you are looking at yourself in this mirror and you're thinking badly about yourself or what you don't like, just think about you telling that to your younger self because you wouldn't to hurt their feelings and you would want them to have hope and you'd want them to be happy. So just remember that you are talking to your younger self and that you want to be better for that person.
Video 5 Transcript
Something that has really helped me overcome self-esteem is like not looking in the mirror as much because I think when we focus on our appearance that's something that can bring out the depression the most in me so I think that is something that can be really helpful is like making sure to focus on your self-worth rather than other things.
Video 6 Transcript
The fastest way to improve your self-esteem is to one and only go and do exercise. When you see the progress you're going to feel good about yourself. You're going to see your clothes fit better. You feel a lot lighter. You have more energy and less pain. You'll get more compliments. Trust me, it's all you really need to start off in a large degree.
Video 7 Transcript
Improving self-esteem is really a difficult thing to do but something that helped me out was to actually accept my own flaws and think of ways to better them instead of giving myself a hard time for it and being proud of the changes like even the small changes that you make in your lifestyle is important as well.
Video 8 Transcript
Improving one's self-esteem is super hard. I'm still working on it now, my mind's still pretty low, but I remember something that I did for the longest time and my self-esteem was actually pretty high, is I would pick a song I just loved, I wouldn't get sick of, and I'd put in my headphones, plug in my airpods, and I'd listen to that song repeatedly over and over again while giving myself positive affirmations. And so that triggered my brain to anytime I heard that song to think positively about myself. And even still, if that song comes on, I will think positive things and a positive memory or just positive thoughts will come into my brain. So I hope that helps.
Video 9 Transcript
So a mindset that's really helped me, it's taken me a while to get in that place, but it's kind of along the lines of I've suffered through all of this heartache and brokenness and darkness, and it was just horrible. I tried to take my own life at one point, but right now I've started to get to a place where I can really, I really feel like proud of that in a way, like I'm just really strong. I just feel really strong, like I can take on anything, and because I've made it this far, I want to keep going, and I feel like there's so much I can do, and I can take on anything, and I can help other people, and I've just really started to see the beauty in all of it.
Video 10 Transcript
So one way to help with self-esteem is literally positive affirmations, but you also have to do the work to make those positive affirmations actually be successful. So for example, you can say, I'm a healthy person, but if you're eating garbage and you're not exercising, you're not going to be a healthy person that will actually end up hurting you, right? So if you say I'm a healthy person, and you're eating fruits, you're eating vegetables, you're taking your supplements, you're going outside, you're walking, you're running, you are engaging some type of spiritual aspect, you're being a healthy person and we have to live up to that standards. Hope that helps.
Video 11 Transcript
I feel a great way to help your self-esteem is to go on the website and download a SWOT test. You will probably find this on the NHS on CBT, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. With the SWOT test, it tells you how to define your strengths and your weaknesses. And when you can find out what your strengths and weaknesses are, you can look into yourself and you can have an idea of where your feelings are coming from. It's quite interesting. It's called the SWOT test. I actually found it quite interesting.
Video 12 Transcript
Instead of going from negative things that you say about straight to positive, which sometimes seems unbelievable, go to neutral. So instead of being, oh I'm this terrible person, and trying to change that thought to, I'm a wonderful person, change that thought to, I am a person, I am here, and I am doing my best.
