“Generation Me is the first generation raised to believe that everyone should have high self-esteem.2 That doesn’t mean, of course, that everybody has high self-esteem. Many people clearly don’t. Consistently rising rates of depression suggest that countless people still think themselves unimportant, but the parallel rise in self-injury as a habit (cutting, for instance, or various eating disorders) hints at a more insidious social problem: People with poor self-image punish themselves for it.3 Society doesn’t consider high self-esteem merely healthy; it considers it noble.”