Is it normal to be repulsed by yourself?

[Amycat17]

I can no longer stand looking at myself. I deactivated all my social media so people don’t look at my pictures and I hate leaving my house now. I’m 5 weeks clean but I feel like I’m gonna relapse. I can’t handle this anymore.

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Hello

You say you are 5 weeks clean so I presume you were addicted to drugs or alcohol so well done achieving 5 weeks and instead of been repulsed by yourself you should be feeling so proud of yourself you are doing so well

I think the reason you may feel this way is because you are beating yourself up , maybe struggling to forgive yourself for the past and it can be quite common when we get clean from addiction , we have to learn to love ourselves again and this takes time and you will and you will be able to look at yourself eventually with pride

You have put so much work in these last 5 weeks please you have come so far , accept you will go through so many feelings but don't let it take away from you what you have achieved and relapse , you are worth so much more than that even if at this moment you do not feel that way

Keep going a day at a time , you have got this

Take Care x

[_Alexa]

You are stronger than you know and loved more than you know. Hold on! You've got this!