Always, that's pretty much the same thing that I am continually struggling with. I'm not sure about all of it, but I am glad you asked. I think that is the very stuff maybe that I am supposed to be figuring out, and I am a lot better at figuring it out for someone else than for myself. Does that make sense?

So, your life experiences have tended to confirm your belief that you are worthless? I'm not sure that there is a way to address that in generalities, unless you can identify thoughts that you have generalized from those experiences, for example "I feel worthless therefore I must be worthless," which would be emotional reasoning, or "If I am treated like I am worthless I must really be worthless." Worthless is a label in and of itself, so what we are doing is labeling as well as over-generalization - concluding that these events make up a never-ending pattern of defeat. Even if there is more than one incident, it still isn't all-encompassing. There is probably a lot of disqualifying the positive in there too. So I guess it might be possible to work with generalities, although I think it would work better to break it down and examine specific instances.

Countering the negative thinking and believing the positive and more objective is hard work. Being able to admit that the positive is objective sounds like a good start. Then maybe we could look for more positive examples, and see what we might be discounting (I know that's easier said than done). What do you think? I'm sorry I don't have the answers here. I'm still struggling with this too.

Rap