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The loss of self love - the reason why we destruct

LeeWatmough
LeeWatmough
Any thoughts surrounding the loss of self love and why we can chose to lock ourselves away in our personal prisons because of it, doing damage to ourselves instead of doing what we need to set us free?
deleted_user
deleted_user
It is not a choice. I love myself. I have Majior depressive disorder. It is not my choice to have it.
beachside
beachside
I believe, one has to accept and appreciate theirselves the way they are; worthy of unconditional love. With the unconditional love for self, one must than accept other people for the way they are and their ability to love.

We are all worthy of unconditional love; we all need and long for unconditional love.


Thank you for a great post; this is my short answer for the many reasons why one might feel the loss of self-love.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Many people, I was, are raised to hate themselves, to feel weird, unacceptable, a freak, unworthy of love. Life then repeats these messages to you, again and again. You try to be kind, I try to be good, but I am clearly unlovable by people I interact with in my everyday life, or it would be better... slowly I am coming to terms with that.

I am not sure how to set myself free, I feel such sorrow when I think of myself, self-pity maybe, but I dislike who I am and would change with anyone in an instance, as pathetic as it sounds, most days I wish I'd never been here.