One thing I learned about loving myself is that it won't happen overnight. So I hope you don't beat yourself over the fact that you don't love yourself very much. That would be like a wounded man beating himself because his wound isn't healing fast enough, and thereby making it worse. The very fact that you're working on it constitutes progress.
Another thing I learned: Once I'd diagnosed myself with self-loathing, I filed it away and just accepted that it was part of me. Wrong. I'm in therapy, and the psychiatrist pointed out that I spoke a lot about always having disliked myself, when, based on what he'd observed, I didn't anymore. It was very refreshing to realize that he was right.
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Date: 2004-01-30 02:11 am (UTC)The very fact that you're working on it constitutes progress.
Another thing I learned:
Once I'd diagnosed myself with self-loathing, I filed it away and just accepted that it was part of me. Wrong. I'm in therapy, and the psychiatrist pointed out that I spoke a lot about always having disliked myself, when, based on what he'd observed, I didn't anymore. It was very refreshing to realize that he was right.