When I finished up my DBT group, the T had everyone give me some words of advice (written & verbal) and at least half of them said I'm capable of doing more than I think I can. And about 2 days earlier, my individual T had said pretty much the same thing. Suffice to say, I have rather low self-esteem. Actually the DBT group helped me figure out that my core belief about myself is that "I am a bad person." Sooo, I have a lot of work to do in that area.

I'm such a people pleaser and my view of myself is very maleable and vulnerable in that it's so dependent on outside forces (what others think/say/do) instead of being more solid and stable. If my view of myself was not so fragile, then I'd consider myself to have good self-esteem. But that is not the case...