Do you hate yourself?

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I heard someone say that depression is anger directed inwards. If that's true, then depression and self-hatred go hand in hand... right? I'm not sure. Anyway, I wanna know people's thoughts about and experiences with self-hatred.

I actually find it a bit embarrassing admitting that I hate myself, even though I suspect that many people experience it.
I wish I was able to accept myself the way I am and not feel like everything I do and say is a piece of sh*t

I used to hate myself for a long time. Now i don't because.. İ can't really explain it. I try to think of myself just one of the millions of people who have the same condition. Trying to focus on other people and not myself made wonders for me. I try to be useful and kind to people and to be a positive presence in their lives. It helps me a lot.

Edited bc i also want to say: you don't have a mission to accept yourself and such. But if you think about it logically you're not an evil person who harms others so you're better off than a lot of people who have no conscience and just hurts others bc they feel like it. So you don't have to feel bad about yourself either. It's just unfair to you.

I hate myself frequently. It’s a lousy feeling. I think I hold on to too much guilt which isn’t healthy. I’ve gotten rid of it sometimes only for it to come back again. I’ve struggled with guilt ever since I was a young child, and it’s over stuff that I know I shouldn’t feel guilty for, but it doesn’t make it go away. It’s a very unpleasant emotion.

I did for many years. Probably most of my life. Now it's more oscillating between neutral and liking myself. That's progress.

I use to hate myself fully but after quite a bit of personal work I can't say that anymore.

I hate things about myself, I hate situations I've been in, I hate experiences I've had, I hate the way I feel at times, and I hate how my existence fits in this world but I don't hate all of me. These things depress me, frustrate me and often put me in the position of wanting to just throw everything away but not being able to because throwing away something that does have value, would make other sad is a waste. I feel trapped a lot, eternally sitting on a fence unable to go either direction to get off.

Sometimes I hate myself, but not as much as I used to. Since I've been in a relationship, I haven't been as self-loathing. I used to hit myself in the head and face, because I got so frustrated with myself and the way my brain's wired. I irrationally thought that by hitting my brain it might morph itself into a neurotypical brain. Not only that, I hitted myself to punish my brain for being wired that way. I didn't want to take it out on innocent objects, animals or people. I just hated myself so much.

For now I hate this intangible glitch that's been inside me for who knows how long.
This glitch... Won't let me go forward or backwards. It calls the damn shots on how capable I'm, what my demeanor is, how well my whole being, what scope of awareness I have, even levels of egocentricity and compassion is determined by this damn glitch.

Supposedly, I'm quite better than I was a week ago.
More productive, more direct, better at management -- for now. But also more pissed off and more tired because of it -- because, for now. It seems meaningless.

So meaningless, all I have to do is do nothing but damn 'wait' and it will go away. It usually does. I may even stop hating this glitch and start loving it -- or ignoring it altogether. For me to change, all I have to do is wait for it. No need to work for it, all my work would be a waste of energy and won't be a use right after.

It doesn't color life well. Colorful as it may in the surface -- I may see it that way someday. Right now I see a sickening mess to clean over and over, and it doesn't stay that way even if nothing was touching it.

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Sometimes

Love is not superior to hate

But I hate a lot of precious lil " people"



Maybe most people love themselves way too much




Skewed reference point

Yes. I hate being defective and unlovable, wish I was nt

The way you feel about yourself, should be functional, in that situation


Relatively correct


Not absolutely correct



If everyone else acts like the greatest thing since sliced bread, and they are just public nuisances.

Yes, I have struggled with self loathing for a very long time.

I don't hate myself, and I never have.

Self and I have a mutual understanding that I'm not perfect but I do my best, and I enjoy my own company. I love to be alone and I find considerable solace pursuing my interests or stims. I couldn't do that if I hated myself.

I have a healthy respect for the breadth and scope of my C-PTSD, however catastrophic. I'm able to identify when it creates negative or intrusive thoughts. For example, I used to go through cycles of worrying that other people might hate me for minor reasons. I've learned that this is a reaction formation or trust issue inherent to Complex Trauma Disorder, and I've learned to accommodate that phenomenon in my life.

There are a few aspects I dislike about myself, but for the most part I would say the positives outweigh the negatives.

There are aspects of my life that I dislike/hate though, and I wouldn't say the good outweighs the bad there.