No offers in months — does that mean I'll never be hired?

You say no one will hire you. Look only at what you actually know: months have passed, and no offer has come. That is the fact. 'No one will ever hire me' is a story you built on top of the fact — and you built it alone, in silence, which is exactly where such stories grow strongest. A long search feels like proof you are unworthy. It isn't. It's proof that hiring is slow, political, and run by forces outside you — timing, budgets, someone else's cousin. Mistaking a hard market for a judgment on your character is the real danger, not the rejection itself. You are not required to carry this alone. A pod, a partner, a team — use them to say the story out loud, where it can be examined, instead of letting it run unchecked in your head. If the weight turns from discouragement into something heavier, talk to someone trained to help carry it. That is good judgment, not weakness.