Mental health

In my experience Strawberry1 anyone who doesn't sometimes feel inadequate is either a narcissist or a psychopath.

The world is a very big place full of complicated people (like me!) and much of human behaviour is driven by fear.

What's always helped me most is mentally stepping back, distracting myself for a while so I can then come back to whatever is going on with a new perspective. Finding solutions. To misquote Take That (or whoever it was!) things can almost always be improved and that's very rarely as hard as it first looks.

I've often found it helpful to make lists of which aspects of difficult situations I (or anyone else) might reasonably change. I find that makes it easier to imagine how I might do that (or encourage others to).

As others have suggested above, time and space to think for ourselves can be very healing. As can "talking" through things with other people.

If people ever tell you you're not good enough, I encourage you to forget them and talk to others. There are loads of us these days!

My first question to them would be "What's your point? What's the purpose of you saying that? How and whom does that help?". Unless I was counselling them I'd probably also swear at them a lot more in real life, but this isn't the place for that. Most often people who would say something like that are only trying to make themselves feel better. That only suggests they don't think they're good enough either. It's frankly pathetic but that's just how some people find themselves to be. It's bad for them too. There's nothing good or constructive in criticism unless it presents solutions.

Perhaps you might make a list of what you might like to change? How things could be better for you? Who/where/how would you prefer to be?

That's just my approach though, and there are lots of others.

Good luck