Neurodivergent on Yik Yak | Does anyone have advice for finding something I like about my appearance? I feel like I’m too tall, too gangly and broad shouldered, I hate having facial hair but it keeps coming back, my hands feel gross and wrong, my face feels wrong. I can’t explain it

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Neurodivergent 4w

Does anyone have advice for finding something I like about my appearance? I feel like I’m too tall, too gangly and broad shouldered, I hate having facial hair but it keeps coming back, my hands feel gross and wrong, my face feels wrong. I can’t explain it

Anonymous 4w

what helped me was ending the evening with writing down or saying verbally to myself things i’m grateful for about my body. it definitely didn’t start with appearances, but it did start with function. grateful for my feet that carry me, thankful for my thumbs every day i hold something, grateful for my strength to stand upright… see if you can look at things for their purpose rather than their appearance. this is a technique in mindfulness as well, so you can carry it elsewhere in life ❤️

Anonymous 4w

It sounds like you are experiencing some dysmorphia. I’m ngl, idk how I got past it. But I do know that the longer I would look at my face the stranger it would look to me. I still have days where everything feels wrong or looks wrong to me, but significantly less than before

Anonymous

#1 4w

Maybe it was going on the right meds for my depression, or ditching all my toxic friendships. I’ve done a lot of self reflection in the past year and I’ve just become more self-conscious of my personality than my appearance.