How I feel about myself seems to fluctuate with my moods. When I'm down my self esteem seems down to. Even my beliefs change based on my mood. When I'm down I have a lot of negative opinions about myself.

I also know that the better I treat myself, the better I feel. So by eating healthy and exercising it helps me feel a bit better about myself.

I also had lots of therapy to deal with feelings of low self worth. I learned how to get in touch with how I felt, identify what I needed and learned to either meet those needs or to ask for help when I could. That part is still very difficult.

Doing that work and learning how to be assertive helped me feel better about myself and I went from a victim to someone who insists on good treatment.

I don't put up with any type of mistreatment and I get rid of people who are toxic pretty quickly. As a result, the people in my life are very good to me and supportive and that helps.

It's impossible to feel good about ourselves if we aren't being treated well.

So I guess I try to take care of myself. Yet my depression always brings me to my knees and makes me feel like garbage regardless of all I said above.