Do You Find It Hard to Love Yourself?
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- Do You Find It Hard to Love Yourself?
- Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
- From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
Do You Find It Hard to Love Yourself?
On our social sites this week, we've been talking about "being your own worst critic" and finding it hard to love yourself. As our former blogger, Deltra Coyne says "it's difficult loving yourself when you have a mental illness." For many, the root of being your own worst critic goes back to childhood and hearing negative messages about your abilities and self-worth, says HealthyPlace Medical Director and Board-Certified psychiatrist, Dr. Harry Croft. Dr. Croft notes that when you have a mental illness, it's usually coupled with depression or periods of depression which can feed into your inner critic. Eventually, the constant self-criticism turns into low self-esteem and people sometimes describe that as "finding it hard to love yourself."
So how can you turn low self-esteem and feelings of low self-worth around?
- Therapy helps you establish an objective view of yourself.
- Associate with people who are "positive" and get as far away as possible from people who are destructive to you.
- Set small achievable goals. When they are accomplished, acknowledge that in a way that feels good to you.
All this takes time and practice, so be gentle with yourself along the way.
Your Thoughts
Do you find it hard to love yourself? We invite you to participate by commenting and sharing your feelings, experiences and knowledge on the HealthyPlace Facebook page.
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Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
Here are the top 3 mental health articles HealthyPlace Facebook fans are recommending you read:
- Q and A with ‘Electroboy’ Andy Behrman – Part Two
- How to Stop Panic Attacks and Prevent Panic Attacks
- PTSD and Memories of Abuse
If you're not already, I hope you'll join us/like us on Facebook too. There are a lot of wonderful, supportive people there.
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From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
On all our blogs, your comments and observations are welcomed.
- Alcoholism Relapse Prevention Not Just for the Alcoholic (Your Mental Health Blog)
- Dear Fear: A “Dear John” Letter To Your Anxiety (Anxiety-Schmanxiety Blog)
- What is a Bipolar Routine? (Breaking Bipolar Blog)
- Blueprint for PTSD Recovery Motion (Trauma! A PTSD Blog)
- What is “Healthy” Self-Esteem? (Building Self-Esteem Blog)
- The Right to Bear Arms vs. the Right to Mental Health Care (Surviving Mental Health Stigma Blog)
- The Connection Between Mental Illness and Self-Confidence! (Recovering From Mental Illness Blog)
- Respect, Not Stigma (Mental Illness in the Family Blog)
- ADHD: Homework Horror (Life with Bob Blog)
- Codependency in LGBT Relationships (The Life: LGBT Mental Health and Relationships Blog)
- How a Video Game Gave Me My Life Back (More Than Borderline Blog)
- Secrets in Eating Disorder Recovery (Surviving ED Blog)
- The Etiquette Of Revealing Mental Illness (Funny in the Head: A Mental Health Humor Blog)
- How to Help Someone with a Drug Addiction (Debunking Addiction Blog)
- Choose Your Own Fairy-Tale Ending to Abuse (Verbal Abuse and Relationships Blog)
- Schizophrenia Poetry Series (Creative Schizophrenia Blog)
- Inside a Tipping Point (Living with Adult ADHD Blog)
- Mental Illness – When Your Family Won’t Believe You (Speaking Out About Self-Injury Blog)
- Don’t Fear Adversity (Coping with Depression Blog)
- Hope, Help and Happiness: A Mental Health Holiday Wish List (The Bipolar Griot Blog)
Feel free to share your thoughts and comments at the bottom of any blog post. And visit the mental health blogs homepage for the latest posts.
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APA Reference
Staff, H.
(2013, January 17). Do You Find It Hard to Love Yourself?, HealthyPlace. Retrieved
on 2024, November 5 from https://www.healthyplace.com/other-info/mental-health-newsletter/do-you-find-it-hard-to-love-yourself
