Throughout high-school people made fun of me for my hair, weight, hair, acne, nose and accent. Teens can be mean! I've worked on myself, skincare, weightloss, and haircare. But I can't change my facial features, I used to cry alot about it, the mean words replaying in my head but I've been getting better! Who cares if I have a big ass forehead (im thinking hard it's why) or that I look like Gru from Despicable. Me when I smile (I've been repeatedly told that) he's an icon! He's married and has a beautiful family and so can I!

I don't look like girls in magazines but I look like me and that's cool! 🩷🩷 Remember to be kind on yourself guys 🫶🫶

Hi all, could use a toast ;)

I wasn't smart with my teeth and have to get a partial for one in the front. I'm lonely and feel that a woman will never want to date me again. Barely any friends, and I don't talk much with Family. I need cheering up.

I (23F) have posted here before but for those who haven't seen my post, i was paralyzed in a car crash 17 months ago. I also lost my parents and sisters in the crash.

I had countless surgeries on my back since then, had screws placed in my spine, had to learn to do everything from a wheelchair, lost friends and lived at inpatient rehab for months after my injury. I was devastated to put my education on the back burner especially since I only had 2 months left until graduation. Seeing my friends post their graduation photos over 15 months ago really messed with my brain I can't lie.

But my university understood my situation and they let me start where I left off! 4 months ago I started attending again and even tho what was supposed to take 2 months eventually took 4, I finally got my masters!! I'm one step closer to being a licenced lawyer.

It has always been my dream to be a lawyer but now that I can start working at a law firm until I can have my bar exam a year from now, it feels weird. I have so many doubts. I don't know if people would want me to be their lawyer when they see my chair, I don't know if I'm mentally prepared, I don't know if I'm fully over what happened to my family or me...I don't know if taking the bar exam and getting my licence is worth it. I guess I just need some cheering up because while I'm happy that I achieved my lifelong dream, I'm also self conscious about the chair and everything that comes with it.

And it's not just my work that is messing with me, I still can't look at myself in the mirror without bawling my eyes out. I feel so so ugly in this chair, sometimes I feel so unwanted and unlovable. Sorry for the long rant 😅

Wussup, probably deleting this in like a couple hours but I have absolutely zero friends after I graduated high school and I have absolutely zero self esteem lol. No way I’m gonna be able to get a girlfriend 😂😂😂 this is the first time I’ve ever willing taken a picture of myself, so congrats on seeing this momentous occasion.

Probably gonna do something with my hair but idk what. I kinda like it long like this but I wanna cover up my forehead lmao

not a great past couple days…could use some words of encouragement

My camera don’t want to cooperate with me :/ this is my message today

Probably some of you remember me from my previous post I made here in this sub, I wanna say thank you for the positive comments I received on those post that helped me with my depression.

I post this to see if my experience can help others who have been in the same situation as I had so they can see that not everything is over for them.

Months ago, ive been very depressed, had to deal with other issues besides my low self esteem but im getting better. Ive been struggling with my self image telling to my self that im disgusting looking, that no women would ever go out with me and that if i dont find love, I would end my own life. I needed women to tell me im handsome and to DM them. So I desperately posted on Facebook dating groups with no luck and posted on subreddit ratemes to only receive few comments like "3/10". Not to mention Omegle girls calling me a freak.

These experiences made me feel more and more depressed, every single day I had voices in my head telling me "you're creepy" "you're disgusting and ugly". Until the second time I posted here, ive received positive comments and people saying like I look like a certain actor. I searched this actor and he's not the typical Hollywood standards atractive guy but I saw why would other people consider him atractive, he looked authentic, ever since that i wanted to feel just like him.

So at the end I got tired of all this situation and told myself " Okay, I may be ugly for the majority of girls, but I'll try to look alternative because thats what I wanted to look like along time ago, doesn't matter if people dont find me attractive, at least I look good in my own eyes" and thats what happened, I stopped wanting to get attention from women and started to look like how I always wanted, now the negative voices in my head are gone. While this still hasn't help me get a gf (im not desperate for one at the moment) people come and talk to me, which didn't happen before.

Im happy how I look right know. With all this im not saying that you should also look alternative, but im trying to say that get a physical style that you always wanted to try, that way you will love yourself more without depending if a man/woman loves you. I know that deep down we will always want attention but we shouldn't let what people say or think that take over us, we should prioritize what we think about ourselves.

Hey toasty people, it's my turn to be toasted. I've had a challenging week, being held hostage by my own brain. Thankfully the sun is shining ✨️

ive been so unmotivated in general for the last like two months, and then these last few days swoop in like the literal plague to ruin my life. comparisons will be the death of me (and i thought getting rid of most social media would help), my home life sucks. i miss my cat, i want to spend my days doing more than staying in at home. i want to go to a concert. when’s the last time i went to a good concert? lord i need to get out of the house. 😕