Shawnay you are not worthless. Its the people who want to put you down that are the problem. They do it to make themselves feel better, because they feel worthless and they want to drag you down to their level. You need to learn to shrug off those comments. What matters is what you believe about yourself. Trust me on this. I had low self esteem when I was young too. The good news is you are only 26 which is plenty of time to do most anything you want. So put the opinions of others out of your mind and tell us what you want to do. Make a list of several things that would really make you happy. I assume you are talking about career here, right? Then for each one write down what you would need to get there. Obviously the education and training would be an obvious one. But whatever you want I would bet we can figure out a path to get there. Trust me on this. I'm 58 and although I did okay in life I would choose another career path if I were able to do it over. I let my dad push me into my career. The main goal here is for you to one day be old and gray and look back on your long life and have very few regrets. And one of the biggest most common regrets that elderly people report is the things they didn't try. The risks they didn't take. At 26 you are not old enough to realize how demoralizing it is to look back and regret what could have been. We don't get any do-overs. So what do you want to do?

What gives other people the right to tell you what to do with your life?

You are your own master and you are your own creator and you can create any kind of life you want to live. Do what you want to do and let go of all those past negative beliefs that are holding you back.

God Bless

It's my mom that is destroying my self-esteem. I didn't say anything about it yesterday because I was so embarrassed about her abusive behavior and was so embarrassed that I am stuck with her with no way out, even though I have two jobs.

Have you tried flat out asking her why she says such hurtful things to her daughter? Maybe ask her if she loves you. If so, why does she want to hurt you all the time. It sounds like she has some serious issues. Its important that you brush off her insults. Shes is the one with problems. You need to focus on what you want out of life and how to realize it.

How you talk to your self is more important than how others talk to you... you believe you and its so hard to believe anything different if it is what you tell yourself, make sense? You are so worth it! And so worth knowing and getting to know! Get to know yourself and figure out how amazing you are, then when others, including yourself, try to tell you otherwise, you can just say, I don't believe you because I am important, strong, beautiful and loved!!!! Because you are!

Hi, I would like to say that sometimes there are parents who has long time generational bad cycles that they have obtained and it has trickled down to others throughout the family. It's bad when your own mom bad mouths you because of what she may have gone through in her past, and never seek counseling for it. Also people has away of being envious of others because they don't want them to move forward due to jealousy.

Maybe what you do makes her wish that she could've done that at an earlier age and she didn't, due to her low self esteem and no support at the time.
I would correct her the next time she says something negative and I would ask her what happened in her life that makes her want to bash me. And i would also speak positive things over myself and write down all of my accomplishments that I've achieved.

I would find positive people to hang around and talk with. One last and important thing is good to do is read(Philippians 4:13).

Feel free to chat anytime, stay strong and don't give up.
GOD BLESS YOU!!!!

You do not suck at everything., there are strengths and weaknesses in everyone, no two people are alike.