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Fall in Love with yourself
By Tristan
Loving myself, was the hardest thing that I could push myself to do. I still have problems with accepting myself and thinking better about who I am and what I look like, but that for me never changes. I dont what part of me, that makes me hate the way I look. I look around me and I see people that I think look better than me, but I then think that I am that way because of what society makes people believe that the way people would have to look like, skinny and everything about them would make people believe that they were beautiful in others eyes. I would try not eating for multiple days, it would switch on and off for me, I would go from not eating for days to eating so much. I don ' t know why I did what I did was thinking would make me look better, but the thing is I had to fully love myself before I do anything else in my life. I have my parents backing me up with helping me to love myself and make my life better for me and not to change for others when they don ' t really love me for me. ●
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