I don't know what I'd do if someone said that where I could hear or see it. I can't even imagine. I've lived my whole life seeing wonderful people whom I loved think of themselves as less than nothing. (I'm lucky: I seem to have had the shortest case of depression in my family, possibly because I went straight to a cognitive psychologist about it.)

I think people who are not depressed usually estimate themselves a lot more accurately than people who are, because people who are depressed tend to think they are worse than worthless. People with depression do not estimate themselves realistically at all.