Can negative experiences inspire self-confidence or does the hurt and humility only serve to strip it away?

I just gave this on another Q. but it is appropriate here also I believe.

Out of crippling abuse, I learned how to Love.

Out of being completely broken, I learned where my true worth lay.

Out of exhausting all outer options, I learned of the inner refuge.

Out of having nothing left to lose, I found true wealth.

In losing all confidence in self, I found true self worth.

In losing myself, I found myself.

This has been my experience!

Many Blessings!

Depends on the person. Some people will dwell on the situation and extract all negative things about themselves and the situation and dwell on that.

Some people take a lesson and improve their strength.

Like the glass half empty or half full. Like say you blow up your leg or an army buddy gets shot in front of you. You can take it as that you'll never forget it and you'll be a better soldier to help train with your buddies to help avoid those things.

Depends on how you see the experience.

So what did I promise myself and why, why promise anything except the best effort. Is it not strange to feel such things against ones better judgment, contradicting the logic of self acceptance. Humility and the defacing consequence of a sadists degrading method is not the same thing. We balance the investment of an attempt, the goal and potential losses before we decide and choose one action over another and another. Why would I be so stupid to promise myself anything other, or more than, my best effort.

Generally, I would think that it would hurt self-confidence.

Of course, specifically it would depend upon the person and situation. If I ripped my pants in front of a group of people I see all the time, it ould kill my confidence. However, my parents had gotten into a really nasty divorce, and I came out of the experience as a stronger person.

Well i have been screwed over left for dead and lost everything i own and hated the one who put me there and for ys i was a bitter ugly person who trusted no one anytime ' but as i got older i began to get over it not to forgive or forget but there was nothing i could change as it was a doomed path i followed and the person now sentence doing a life sentence for crimes he committed to another but i am a better person now and have grown in my heart a lot ' but i learned that if it sounds too good to be true ' it usually is.

It depends upon how u take on the situations. If u think failures r pillars to success then they boost u up but if u think them the opposite they take u down.

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Is there something left to say after what Just Be said?

lets put it this way what doesnt kill you makes you stronger.

personally experiences like that should make a person more stronger and wiser

"Trouble in immunological doses strengthens. Anything else crushes."