After more than 20 years now, I feel like it’s gone consistently downhill. Since joining this site, I’ve been looking at things on a scale of 1-10 like that stickied post. Every time I screw something up, no matter how small, it feels like a 10 and then ruminates in my head turning the whole day to a 10. There’s no reset. It’s just 10 after 10 after 10. I can’t do anything right. How do you fix that? How do you fix the feeling that everyone you come into contact with hates you, makes fun of you, and thinks you’re an incompetent moron? How do you fix feeling like an idiot when something wrong to someone else doesn’t even register to a 1 but to you it’s a 10? How do you fix someone that doesn’t believe there is a solution, but also believes that even if there was one that they couldn’t do whatever was required no matter how much help they got? I feel like such a lonely failure…
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I'm sorry you're feeling so bad. I hope there's a way you could be easier on yourself.
Overcoming Low Self-Esteem, 2nd Edition: A self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques
Melanie Fennell
There might be other books that are just as good or better, but that's the only one I know of on the subject of self-esteem. This book is from the UK's reading-well book list, the books there have been vetted by at least one professional.
A particular technique that might help you would be to consider how you would counsel someone else experiencing the same thing.
Overcoming Low Self-Esteem, 2nd Edition: A self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques
Melanie Fennell
There might be other books that are just as good or better, but that's the only one I know of on the subject of self-esteem. This book is from the UK's reading-well book list, the books there have been vetted by at least one professional.
A particular technique that might help you would be to consider how you would counsel someone else experiencing the same thing.