How do you increase your self esteem when depressed

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10. Another way to say self-esteem is self-worth, saying it that way

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exposes self-esteem as an outcome of self-judgement.

Feeling like you should have/could have be doing more is somewhat symptomatic of depression. It's an assessment, and saying to yourself I'm not a very good person because I haven't accomplished better easily follows from that. It's a judgment of self.

Groucho Marx told a joke about a guy who says to his Dr, "It hurts when I do this", and the Dr's famous reply is "Then don't do that".

There's a thing called non-judgmental mindfulness which is related to that. Being aware without the painful self-judgement is part of that.