What are personal demons and monsters?

A history of physical or sexual abuse
Depression
Anxiety
Low self-esteem
Obsessiveness
Psychic wounds from childhood

Having a horrible body image (whether or not the person’s body is obese or not, the person’s nose is the “wrong shape” or the person has some type of disfigurement or not)

Pent of feelings of hostility left over from childhood (that one can’t get over even if the circumstances or players have changed)

Not being able to control over-eating and thus developing some type of eating dis-order

Feelings of inadequacy or un-love-ability (is that a word?) even though the person may have friends and loved ones

Feelings of shame over having been raped

Having some type of phobia (like agoraphobia) that effects a person’s daily life

Social anxiety and awkwardness, that are difficult or impossible to overcome due to the definition of the condition

A troubled past which effects you in the present, an addiction, shame or guilt, skeletons in the closet.

Basically the negative thoughts you have about yourself or things you have done or haven’t done that you are ashamed of, or would be if they ever came out to public scrutiny :-/
I have a few from my past, who doesn’t ? :-/
Stuff I still feel guilty about today….......

PROCRASTINATION

@Symbeline I would have thought that you would say that “skeletons in the closet” are a plus, not a bad thing. Hee Hee.

Having to live a life of duplicity, with real identity and strongest emotional ties concealed.

Guilt
Obsession with unwholesome thoughts or desires
Envy
Secret rivalry
Excessive ambition
Revenge
Self-loathing

errtu… balor of the abyss

@Kardamom Yeah but I didn’t wanna speak for everyone else…:D

Fear of commitment.

Inability to ever feel secure about a relationship or that I’m good enough for anything.

All of these have been addressed by an education that I became a part of and it has to do with the stories we make up because of something in our life that triggered such a large response. The education helps one to see how to set those stories aside and create something new that you want and control, leaving the monster behind. You cannot fix it nor change it but you can ignore it and get over it.