My personality

Believing that I’m worthwhile and valuable, being happy and proud of all that I have and all I can do gave me an excellent measure of my self-esteem level.  I can use behaviors in my daily life that support and increase my level of self-esteem, such as take a positive attitude toward myself, in critical situations, and in stressful moments thinking that these kind of situations are just for short time and then become better.  Using goals as a challenge is a good way to do or approach them, if something doesn’t have our expected wishes, as fail in test, I think that I have to learn of this and use it as lesson to be better in the next assignment or test. 

Using my parents advises and values have contributed to my self-esteem, they transfer to me a lot ways to manage myself in situations that demands high emotional feelings.  Experiences such as move to another country, leaving school, job, family and friends somehow have increased my self-esteem level, putting a big goal as the adaptation to the new society as achievement. 

But as the same time the fact of move to United States have made me more vulnerable and hypersensitive with some criticism, specially if these criticism come from my husband, which is my only buddy here. I often feel very depressed and hopeless, victimized, lonely, or invisible to others when we argue. These traits could just be low self-esteem, but I've discovered that they are also symptoms of hypersensitivity due my happiness and positive attitude with other areas of my life. I think the cause of this hypersensitivity is the feeling of being unsupported and far from my parents and being belittled and criticized by my only affection support hurt my feelings and make me feel defenseless. I know that I have to learn to solve conflicts in my relationship. I am very concern and I am taking action to solve this issue.

I have had intense moments of personal and professional stress with others; overall I am able to remain calm in most situations. For example, I don’t experience road rage, I usually smile at people who cut in line in front of me, I generally react with patience when things don’t go as planned at work, or at school and I have the opinion that overall life is good. Optimism is an excellent characteristic that is usually helps me handling difficult or stressful situations even in the face of adversity.