Nairobi, Sept. 2 -- Q "Is there a treatment for inferiority, and what causes it because I often feel looked down upon by some colleagues at work?"
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Your question seeks to better understand the origins of low self-esteem and more importantly how to treat the condition. Before we answer the question, you might want to know that we can think of three types of self-esteem. The first is described as inflated, the second is high and the third is the type you seem to have, which is low self-esteem. The other thing you might want to know right at the outset is that inflated self-esteem sometimes occurs in disease states such as manic episodes and low self-esteem is common in people with depression as an illness.
Following treatment, individua...