Why self hatred is a mental illness

A mental illness is defined by something that significantly disrupts a person's thinking, mood, or behavior and makes it hard to cope with daily life. Something that affects relationships, wants and needs, something that makes life significantly harder. To hate yourself, and i mean to *truly* hate yourself, genuinely ruins your life.

Everything in life, every choice, every path, every reason for why you live your life the way you do, always comes down to your self worth. Hating yourself hinders your ability to live how you want, to live how you SHOULD. When the only thing you've ever felt about yourself is pure unrequited hatred, you cant give yourself the opportunity to maybe leave your house and do something fun, because you're not confident in the way you act or look, because you hate yourself. You cant get yourself to apply for a job or call for a follow up because you don't think you'd end up getting it even if you tried. Because you hate yourself. now you're unemployed so you hate yourself for that too. You feel guilty for having even an inkling of a feeling of attraction for someone, because you hate yourself. you cant make friends or keep your room clean or eat healthy or leave your house or try new things or buy new clothes or even get out of bed because now.. now you have depression.

Because you hate yourself

You hate yourself and its literally ruined your entire life. Self hatred is this disease that infects everything it touches. Peace and happiness crumble in your hands because you despise yourself too much to let yourself have it. And the only way to bring it back, the only cure, is love. When you are in a bottomless pit of self hatred and pity, the only person who you can bring you back is you. Nobody can love yourself for you. All the love in the world is worthless if you don't have any of it for yourself. Everything, all of it, starts with you. When you grow the strength to love yourself, despite all odds, you can never go back. Nothing, not all the hate in the world, not even all the hate you had for yourself in the past could ever take you back. Self love is literally the cure-all. The universal antidote. When you are so full of love for yourself you can truly do anything. Loving yourself makes you almost invincible. So worthy of everything and anything, because why wouldn't you be? Accepting and receiving love from others is so wonderful when you love yourself too. Now, there's no doubt that loving yourself is hard when all you've ever known is the opposite. its one of the hardest things you'll probably ever do. But you're the only one who can. Learn to forgive yourself, let yourself discover everything there is to love about who you are. If you cant find anything, make it. Give yourself every reason to love you. if there's anything you love about yourself, anything at all that you find, no matter how insignificant or small, grab onto it and don't let go. Take that tiny bit of love and let it grow. Love yourself, no matter what it takes.