Self esteem is improved with your capacity to help yourself and your capacity to solve your own problems. If you are disabled, your self esteem is determined by your capacity to trust in Hashem and your caretakers. That said, one must strive for a healthy self esteem. Positive thinking is a must. Clearly its all in your soul and your mind. But that said, I must confess that my self esteem clearly improved with more Torah study and with more adult acheivement and learning. I can not report that being a child with children who taunted one another and may have made one feel worthless was the most beneficial thing for your own self esteem, but like the people say today in regards to those who are bullied and have tough childhoods, “it does get better in the future”. So grab a book, study hard and think good thoughts. Talk to your Creator if that is something you think you can do. He wont reply to you in an audible manner, but maybe just maybe you’ll get a good feeling for how G-d regards your soul and your self acheivement and self sacrifices and thus you can gleam a hope of how you should indeed feel for real.
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