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Originally Posted by fossilapostle  There is certainly treatment. You sound like you have very low self-esteem and, even though it's kind of a cliche, I think that there's some truth to the saying that you can't love other people if you don't love yourself.
I don't think it's literally true, but I think that if you dislike yourself, it's a lot harder to like other people.
I would definitely seek therapy if I were you. It's must be miserable enough just feeling this way all the time, but if this goes on untreated it can lead to other problems in the future.
Get yourself some help. Despite what you may think, you don't deserve to feel this way about yourself or other people. |
Hi there, thanks for the reply. I do have an appt close to the end of the month, and a follow-up appt two weeks after, so it's a start I guess. Maybe my lack of compassion stems from self-loathing, that is a possibility.
And, I suppose I did lie in my first post. I do have pangs of sympathy for others, but they are rare, and when I do have them I feel irritable afterwards.
I guess the first way to tell if low self-esteem is the problem (for my lack of sympathy), is to gain it and go from there. But, that is a hard thing to do, as you can imagine. Anyway, again thanks for the response and I'll try and take what you said into consideration.
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