I guess I'm going to be the oddball here. Before all these diff mental illness's surfaced in my life, I had virtually no self-esteem. I do feel that all my diff dx have stripped me of some of the person I was before but I'm still left with a person with no self-esteem. That's not to say that I don't feel I have *some* good qualities because I think I do. They just seem to get buried deep underneath all my rapid-cycling. I think there is the *real* me, inside somewhere screaming to get out but can't due to all the diff dx I have that seem to have overpowered my life. Anyway, that's me. FWIW.