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There are people who constantly put themselves down. It's not just that they don't feel that they are good. The problem is that they are trying to put on a sense of false modesty, trying to show that they are worthless - not because they really feel that way but because they want other people to deny it so that they will be able to be more pompous. It's a reverse type of psychology and feeling in which they try to show that they are better than they are by putting themselves down so they will let other people deny it for them, instead of them trying to push themselves up.

Thus, someone who puts himself down should be investigated to find out exactly what is going on. Do they really feel that need to put themselves down? Or are they putting themselves down so that others will build them up and are they doing it because they really have a haughty feeling of self-grandeur?

True, this sense of false modesty could backfire, but it is worth it to these people because in some cases other people build them up and make them feel much better than they deserve and this exaggerrated proxy feeling of self-worth is what they are really searching for. They are very pleased when they are able to find it and benefit from it.