Do you feel like you're a failure because other people have told you that? Not that it matters much, feeling like a failure is destructive to yourself regardless of where the feelings come from. You need successes in your life in order to overcome your current depressed state. Do you work at a regular job? If not, perhaps you could find a place to volunteer; something that you like or are good at. Often volunteering gives us an opportunity to show our worth in other ways. Your child is a reflection of who you are. If you wish to raise a well developed, curious human being, you need to be that yourself. How do you do that? Re-asses who you think you are. Take into account your good traits, your skills, your strengths. Those are the things you need to think on, not the things that are negative. If you find you an envision a different life for yourself, sometimes, that itself will help you build a better life. It isn't other people who determine who we are and what our worth is, it is us, ourselves who do that. - FInd value in things that perhaps you had not valued before. Learning is something to value (I did not say education, although, most would argue with me). - You are worth a lot to the rest of our species. That you question your worth is normal - everyone does so. Not everyone has the vision to see that they ARE important, valuable, vital....