Adapt Eating Distress

HOW DO I GO ABOUT GETTING HIGH SELF-ESTEEM?

Here are some of the things that a sufferer told us helped her.

“I used to look in the mirror and find things about myself I hated and wanted to change: my thighs, my hair, my skin.  After a while I realised that the list in my head of things I wanted to change about myself was getting bigger all the time.  It was because I was looking for the things I didn’t like, but the only reason I didn’t like certain things about me was because I was comparing myself to other people.  I realised that the only person I was upsetting was myself.  I tried to stop comparing myself to others and start looking for things I liked about being me rather than things I didn’t.  It didn’t happen overnight, and it was really hard at first but, eventually, I started to feel a lot better about myself.  After all, if you look for the bad you will find it, but if you try to look for the good, you will find that too!”

Casey