We are people, we have value just for being who we are, and just by our very existence.

There's the core phrase in your post.

Of course, people, through their actions, can destroy that statement...A child-molester or rapist, just two examples. They have little value, in my personal opinion anyway. It raises an interesting thought in my mind...

Is a man who murders someone a bad man? What if he murders that other person in defence of his family, a young child? Hmm...

Anyway...

Struggling with one’s humanity and personhood is something that is not foreign to me. I’ve had many a person tell me, through words, deeds, or attitudes, that I am not, at least in their assessment, a person or a person worthy of being treated with respect and decency.

It's clear you are battling through some things currently, or have been, and I wish you the best with it. You are, indeed we all are, worthy of being treated with respect and decency...Until we're not...Like the rapist I mentioned. (Again, this is just my opinion and I figure some will disagree as they are entitled to do.)

All the best mate, and thanks for sharing your thoughts and situation...You never know who you may be helping by doing so.

#Respect.