I truly believe when you have been knocked down in life, and when you were never the central part of anyone's world then the possibly of low self esteem is really high. In my circumstance, I have a lot of stress in my life, and I really am not feeling well about where I am at versus where I should be at. I have had things go on that weren't fair and its like my life is against me, and if you can't beat em join em...well that in turn makes me low in the esteem area. I hope one day to rebuild and be sucessful and really happy again, painfree. I sometimes believe I'm dreaming