Wants2, are you feeling any better? I'd like to know how you did on the interviews too. I'm sorry I fell behind on this thread. The information that I posted doesn't make me feel better either. It makes me rather hopeless about having any self-esteem because I'm not on the good side of any of those criteria. But I can look at it and say no wonder I have no self-esteem. The idea is to look at your beliefs and maybe see if you can change some of them. Deep down, do you really believe that you are more responsible for or more deserving of bad things than other people are? Or is there maybe some room for luck? And if you are responsible for the bad things, do you give yourself credit for the good things? If the bad ones aren't luck, then how can the good ones be entirely luck? So see if you can go through your beliefs like that and challenge any of them that aren't helping you.

But, yeah, I'm in the same boat with you. And it does seem like there are a lot of intelligent, creative people who have low self-esteem and depression, and who keep beating up on ourselves. So why do we keep doing that?

You can work on emotional intelligence too. When you notice an area where you wish you were different, just keep working on that area until you are more happy with it. And feel free to send my own advice back to me, because I need it too.

Rap