Do you love you?

I realize I have trouble accepting myself sometimes..mostly my messed up thoughts and my past. Honestly I’ve made progress from full self loathing to a small amount of self compassion. Im wondering if im alone.

Real talk..on a scale of 1-10 how much do you love yourself?

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I like Jayster. I’m not wild about him, but I know some of the difficulties he had.

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I used to love me every once in awhile. Now I have a wife and it would be hard to sneak off and love me.

She is going to visit her cat when her parents go on vacation, though :thinking: .

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I love myself because I’m pretty resilient and have gone through a lot of hardships in the past

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Let’s see, I bathe myself, I dress myself, I feed myself, I medicate myself, I look both ways before I cross streets, I obey traffic laws, I tend to only eat and do things that I enjoy, and I just generally always look out for my own good. This is all good evidence that I love myself very much. I sure treat myself well.

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Right on skinny :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: I guess looking at it that way I do have some love for myself too!

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5/10, mixed bag, some good some bad

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I do things that benefit my wellbeing so by definition this can be seen as love in contrast to doing things that bring harm to oneself.

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I’ve been becoming more compassionate and loving toward myself. When I stand outside myself, I see a good person with great strength of character who applies herself. I definitely deserve love and compassion toward myself. I’m also amazed at the things I’ve accomplished in life.

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Thats wonderful :blush: It must feel really good to see yourself that way. Hope you share it with other people too!

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No I hate me

Enough said

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I’d say I love myself 8 out 10 most days.

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If you asked me two months ago I’d rank my self love at a 3. Today I rank it at an 8 or 9.

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I had a couple of therapists help me with that. It took me until I was 48 years old to get there. People will say that I’m hard on myself, but I frequently found people were very hard on me and I internalized it. I’m glad that’s over, lol. Phew!

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Being on Wellbutrin might’ve helped with the self hatred too that was probably part of depression. I started it in the beginning of May.

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People love me. I might as well do the same and love me also.

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There are all kinds of days… I don’t know if there’s a person whose opinion of themselves is carved in stone. At least for me, my attitude toward myself changes — and it’s unfortunate that even the smallest external detail can flip it to the opposite. Sometimes I like myself, and sometimes I don’t want to be myself and even punish myself with rather silly actions… (I don’t harm myself, but I isolate or sometimes “unintentionally” skip meals :sweat_smile:) — a kind of minimal depressive behavior. But then I remind myself, if not me, who will take care of me? I have to force myself to love myself.

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I love my self, but no one gives me hug these years..

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My case manager/counselor gave me a hug the other day.
Yeah we deserve to be hugged once in a while

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I am supposed to accept/love who I am before God. I know who I am and I know my place. But some of my choices that got me here? I cant say I like or accept them… even if they were an essential part of my journey. Wish I could go back, really.

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