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AllyH88 said:
a lot of what I thought had been just basic personality traits were actually symptoms of depression (eg, unhappiness, feelings of worthlessness, guilt, anger, lack of interest in anything, laziness, etc...).

does the low self-esteem ever go away?

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Yes, you can raise your self-esteem. It is probably low because of the messages that you recevied about yourself while growing up. Anger can be expressed in therapy and it can go away too. Guilt can change if you change your thoughts about the issues that it is dealing with or make amends or whatever.