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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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