Low self-esteem can occur at any time in a person’s life. Some people who are especially susceptible to such feelings are often teenagers who are greatly influenced by what other people think of them. Other categories of people can be affected by these issues, such as new mothers who are entering a different phase of their lives that they were not really aware of or have not experienced before.

If you want to know if someone or someone close to you currently suffers from low self-esteem, you can look at any of these signs to determine if the signs are typical of the person in question:

• Lack of Satisfaction. For people with low self-esteem, the grass is always greener on the other side. These types of people are never satisfied with any aspect of their lives, whether this aspect is their family or their car, these people constantly want more with the feeling that something greater will give them the joy they desire.
• Apprehension of the Unknown. People with low self-esteem are often afraid to try new things. Their fear of the unknown keeps them from doing what they really want to do and reaching their full potential.
• Staying in the Past. People with low self-esteem are constantly unable to focus on the “here and now”, spending a great deal of time worrying about the future and dwelling on their past mistakes. These people often fail to enjoy the current joys that life brings them.
• Self dissatisfaction. These people are often not comfortable with themselves; these people constantly focus on the negative and focus on the losses instead of the successes. They constantly neglect themselves or focus too much on their appearance because they don’t believe in their appearance.
• Acceptance of imperfections. These people are constantly unable to accept the fact that they are not perfect. They strive for perfection at all times and become increasingly distressed when they fail to meet the superficial standards of perfection they set for themselves. These people are also overly sensitive and worry about criticism at all times.
• Lack of privacy. These people cannot be very intimate with other people and find it difficult and impossible to be intimate with friends, family and other people. The relationships they have tend to be superficial at best.
• Busy bees. Busy people don’t get a chance to see their core problems and issues, so people with self-esteem issues often hide their true feelings and problems by appearing to be constantly busy.