When you feel like you're worth nothing

Every time you look in the mirror, all you see is what you don't like. When someone praises you at work, you tell yourself it was luck, or that they don't really know you. Your failures stay with you far longer than your successes ever do.

You open social media, and you see people scroll by who seem to have it all, at work and in love. They're your age, and yet they shine. And you, next to them? Once that thought starts, you can't seem to make it stop.

Something you heard as a child, or the memory of being compared to someone else, sometimes comes back without warning. "Try harder." "Your brother could do it." Those voices may still be echoing inside you, even now that you're an adult.

You can't say no when someone asks you for something, and you smile so no one will dislike you. You put what others expect ahead of what you feel. And some nights, drained, you may wonder what you're really here for, and what the point of you is.

You are not the only one who feels worthless. Even if it doesn't show, many people live every day with this same thought. And feeling like you're worth nothing is not at all the same thing as actually being worth nothing.