I had a canthoplasty with a mid face lift and eyebrow lift to support it 11 days ago. The results are horrible, to say the least. I know it’s still early days and I’m trying to be patient in the hope the everything starts looking more and more natural over the next month or two. Right now, I have a very fake exaggerated look with one eye looking relatively normal and the other looking tiny, and very slanted. From my photo you can tell this is not in my head. I used to be “pretty” and I am not coping well with my appearance now. I went from looking friendly and approachable to witchy and disfigured. My family have reprimanded me for doing this and we are all just holding our breath in the hope that this looks better in some time. I cannot face the world as I am right now and cannot stomach being asked the question: “what happened to your eyes???!” I lay awake in bed half the night despising myself, wishing I never got this done and crying myself to sleep for a few hours if I’m lucky. During the day I check my appearance in the mirror every 5-10 minutes in the hope that something has changed. My own family can’t look me in the face. I know it’s irrafional but I think to myself: “what’s the point of living anymore”.
I know this is a very specific situation but does anyone have any advice for me? How do I resume life without being a mess, how do I keep hope that things will get better whilst feeling like they never will (which obviously is a possibility now.