A client seeking help at a community mental health center complains of fatigue, sensitivity to criticism, decreased libido, and feeling self-conscious. The client also has aches and pains. A nursing diagnosis for this client might include:

Situational low self-esteem

Explanation: Self-esteem is referred to as an evaluation or assessment of one's self. It relates to how an individual thinks or feels about themselves. Situational low self-esteem occurs when an individual develops a negative perception, underestimates, belittle or thinks lowly of himself in response to his current situation or challenges. Situational low self-esteem results in demoralizing and sometimes despondent thought resulting in psychological disorder. Symptoms such as sensitivity to criticism and feeling of self-conscious due to negative subjective evaluation. Fatigue, decreased libido and ache and pains may also result due to mental stress.

elizabeth loftus conducted a study to observe the reliability of eyewitnesses during the 1970s. their baseline was to define how accurate are the recollections of eyewitnesses.

her studies do not support the use of eyewitness. loftus mentions in her work that we are not required to recall some experiences, meaning that rarely an individual eyewitness testimony is trustworthy. a good example is presented in her work, where all individuals watched a video and were than asked "about how fast were the cars going when they hit/smash? ". the testimonies changed based on the word she used to make the question (hit or smash), proving the fragility.