Self-Esteem Psychosis - Random Notes

Feelings of satisfaction can only be recognized by comparing past situations where satisfaction was experienced. Most memories of positive emotions come from early to prepubescent childhood.

 As our bodies change, our hormones and neurotransmitter chemicals change, sometimes in a way that lessens the salience of positive emotions in response to external stimuli. Some chemical changes are more extreme than others.

A psychosis of self-esteem comes from the distortion of values and judgments of the self compared to other people and cultural expectations, often leading to irrational violence.

• Social Comparison Theory
• Very well mind: Social Comparison Theory in Psychology. 
• Taylor & Francis Online: The relationship between self‐esteem and psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia: A longitudinal study 
• NCBI: Emotion and psychosis: links between depression, self-esteem, negative schematic beliefs and delusions and hallucinations. 

Social Dysphoria is not exclusively gender related

• Dysphoria is at one end of a spectrum, opposite to Euphoria. What elements do we use to determine the number of degrees of separation between the two, and how do we describe them?

If our cognitive biases causes one to accept arguments based on logical fallacies, 

Proximal Superiority

A symptom of low self-esteem where a person is obsessed with finding flaws in other people around him or her for the most mundane reasons, in order to maintain an illusory sense of superiority.

• An employee becomes upset that a new employee started at the same wage as his current wage because he started at a lower wage when he was new, not realizing that the state raised the minimum wage.
• Gossips about other people.
• Bullies other people with destructive criticism instead of constructive criticism.

We live in a culture where insults are revered over constructive criticism.

We are sold the idea that destructive criticism is permissible in society. We live vicariously through the lives of celebrities who brutalize people.