Repetitively asking the same questions.

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To begin with, I was diagnosed with Aspergers a couple of years ago. For the past year, my anxiety has been the worse it has ever been. I'm currently 19 years old, and I repetitively ask if I look okay, if I'm ugly, if I'm pretty every single day, nearly every hour. It's taking over my life completely and I hate it. I don't want to be asking these questions but my mind feels like it has to. I'm very insecure about how I look, I feel as if I look abnormal. I have a loving mother, boyfriend and many other people who tell me I'm pretty, I've even been asked to be a model, but I can not see it at all. I just want one day to know what it's like to feel pretty, and not have that anxiety taking over me. I'm really hurting the people I love by accusing them of lying about how I look, I truly need some help and I don't know what to do. I have been going to counselling and she's told me to write down how I feel, and when I look at what I've wrote now, it looks like a crazy person has written down all this anger and sadness onto a page. All I can tell you about my past is that my father left when I was 7 years old, which hurt me a lot. And I was emotionally abused when I was 15 by my then boyfriend. He used to threaten me and call me stupid, ugly and fat (even though then I was very much underweight...)
I don't know why I'm doing this, but I just want it to go away!
If anyone has any ideas on how I can cope and try to keep it to myself I would greatly appreciate it.
Also am on 40mg of Prozac.
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hi, human,

keep up with the counseling. you've taken an important fist step - you realize that you are not being realistic. you also know how things got that way (absent father, abusive boyfriend), things that were not your fault. don't expect you'll recover overnight. but i expect you'll gradually need less reassurance on what you have already begun to know - that you are an attractive, valuable young woman.