I am struggling with having negative feelings about myself in relationship with other people. It feels like each interaction is marred by some negative sense of failure on my part even though there are positive parts. This feeling is creating a lot of pain and personal criticism. None of it is as bad as my feelings . Habit and some truly poor responses by others has contributed to this problem. I want to feel better and tell myself the truth that in actual fact I am doing alright and things aren't going that badly.