Reddit mentions of Mastering a Healthy Self Image: The Guidebook to Real Happiness and Enormous Success

I'm sorry you're going through this :( I've been depressed in the past, and I know how difficult it is, and how hopeless you can feel. You are absolutely NOT alone in having felt this way! hugs

The good news is that simply re-wiring your brain to let in positive thoughts and remove the negative thoughts can change your mindset and outlook completely. We are fed a lot of negative messages in society: from our parents, from advertisers, from the media.

How to improve? Sounds cheesy, but this really worked for me: get your hands on all the self-help books, all the inspirational TED Talks, and all the motivational speeches you can get. Fill your head with these inspirational speakers' words of positivity until eventually, you learn to to maintain the positivity yourself!

Start with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tdihe-eBLk

Have a dose of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P2nPI6CTlc

This is great, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFWyseydTkQ

Followed by this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU1DI8HsYAg

This is a great book: http://www.amazon.com.au/Mastering-Healthy-Self-Image-Guidebook-ebook/dp/B0060QSV0O

Also, remember that the people out there who are successful/happy usually did not have it come easy! Colonel Sanders, creator of KFC, didn't start the chain until age 65, and that was after his chicken recipe got rejected over 1000 times by restaurant owners! Michael Jordan has missed 900 shots throughout his career AND was cut by his high school basketball team. Imagine if they had given up based on their early failures; where would they be?

edit: Also, finding a healthy ENFJ/ENTJ to communicate with really helps. I've found those types to be the ones who are most likely to keep going even after multiple failures.