Start with yourself and making friends with yourself; don't let yourself put yourself down! When I would catch myself calling myself names I'd think, "Support!" and three guys in togas carrying a Corinthian column would come running from my left ear into the dome of my head, put up the column, then run out by my right ear Stand up with you with you, if you feel worthless, you are accepting negative comments from yourself or others about yourself.

You say you know you are not worthless; how do you know? Get to know yourself, your good characteristics and bad and work with yourself as a friend. When you make a mistake, work together with yourself to put things to right instead of just finger pointing and calling yourself names.

Working with yourself, you should feel less lonely, being alone, when you literally are, won't necessarily be a difficult or painful time because you will be working with and enjoying yourself.

When you truly know yourself, you will know what you want and wanting what you want will enable you to stand up for you and say, "I want X". Other people won't be able to upset you because you know you want X and will be working to get X so what they say and do will not be as important if they are not interested in or part of helping you to get X.