and makes my life worse! What should I do? How can I overcome this? It is a repeating cycle. My intense feelings of hatred toward myself and my life keep my head in a spin, which makes it hard to think and concentrate on anything, which makes it hard to accomplish anything. The lack of accomplishment just "proves" that my initial assessment of myself was correct and that I am detestable and worthless.

I just cry or feel like a loser who is useful only to take up space. I feel as if I am nothing but a consumer and the kindest thing I could do for those around me is to not exist. Feeling this horrid makes it difficult to focus on any goals I may have. Even I do manage to remember my goals, actually applying myself to do them is impossible.

Not being able to do anything reinforces the feelings that all I do is take up space and use valuable resources that could be better spent on others who are more worthwhile.

How can I stop this cycle? Does DBT have an answer? If not, what techniques have you used to turn this self-loathing and self-defeating behavior around? I really need some help here.