self-esteem

There was a “toll on my ego and my self-esteem,” she said, noting the “extremes in this business” of being either idolized or hated.

She says his self-esteem was “hugely impacted” by the suspensions: “At that age you don’t understand, you just think you’re bad.”

She said she had been made to feel like a nuisance and that her self-esteem and mental health had been affected.

Noah Kass, a therapist based in New York City, told me that the current dating crisis wasn’t created by big tech companies per se, but he thinks that “they are exploiting people’s insecurities and self-esteem, feeding into an addictive, gamified culture within a capitalist, winner-takes-all society.”

Rivers knew she was special, but she suffered from low self-esteem.