Comments on: Our Self Esteem Results

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:18:59 +0000

I hate myself because I am overweight and unattractive, I’m 21 and I’ve never even been on a single date so I figure I must be a leper and romantically untouchable, and I am an educational and financial failure.
And in life, at least where I live and who I live with, these are the only things that seem to matter.

By: FreeEternally

FreeEternally — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:47:39 +0000

I am pretty sure I voted I hate myself. I don’t really know why I feel that way about myself and it seems like an abnormal way to veiw myself, but that is how it is for me. I avoid mirrors and looking at myself in mirrors because I never like what I see. I always wear loose clothes that cover up as much as possible and because I get up so early in the morning and my roomate doesn’t I don’t have to look at myself…ever really. There have been a few days in the last few years where I have been able to look myself in the eye in the mirror and like what I see but who knows where it all started. I have always been very self critical in every area of my life. In school nothing less then perfect grades will do, music is the same, art, building my resume, my different jobs, giving speechs, and making plans for the futures are all the same…and I can control all of that but I can’t really control how I look at myself or how I look.

By: J.

J. — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:37:23 +0000

I voted “I like myself”. Only because when I go to say “I love myself” I think of all the reasons I’m not or haven’t been “good enough” so I don’t deserve to use that phrase. Which is hilarious. And by hilarious I mean sad. Deflect!
But I am happy to say I no longer hate myself, and even when I’m upset and disappointed in myself I know I don’t HATE myself. Growth…