Topic : Self Image

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Created on : Thursday, July 07, 2005, 08:53:12 am
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July 20, 2007, 10:11 pm PDT

Lucky

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Hi, I used to be a model with very vibrant eyes and a very good self-image of myself, but now that I am almost 40 years old. I feel like I have changed so much that I am embarrassed for people that I have not seen in a long time to see me.

 

I look really totally different than I used to. I used to be so pretty, I look OK now, but I feel like I look weird. My eyes do not look the same at all and I just feel like people think I'm weird now.

 

I hope and pray that people do not think that, but then I look at photos of me now or even in the mirror and I just feel like I look weird. I don't want to look this way, but I have changed the older I have gotten. Please help me deal with these feelings. Thank you.

How do you look different?  Are your eyes telling you the story that your mind can't accept?  How have you changed?  Give me more specifics to go on.  We all change as we get older, it's just life, but can you define weird a little more?

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July 22, 2007, 2:40 pm PDT

I don't know

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How do you look different?  Are your eyes telling you the story that your mind can't accept?  How have you changed?  Give me more specifics to go on.  We all change as we get older, it's just life, but can you define weird a little more?

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Sunshine

I don't know, I just feel like I have changed from a very pretty young woman to a practically middle-aged woman...and it shows!

 
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August 8, 2007, 4:15 pm PDT

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I was in a situation like yours except that I am still married after 3 years apart.  No, actually 4 now.  Long story.  Ok, child protective services said that your house was a danger to them.  Was this Because of Steve?   How sympathetic do you think a judge will be to a sex offender, esp when it was one his children!  I think he is going to tell Steve to either have no visits or very supervised visits.  Can you tell me more about your situation, like, did you leave him or are you still with him at home, did he leave?

((((((HUGS)))))))

Sunshine 

yes i left him in january of 2007, right after my two children were taken away from me. Steve accused me of letting the child protection take them away. I haven't seen them since Jan. I got to go to court on august 9th for a divorce. I had to pay Steve back for selling the place, or I would went to jail. I didn't want to live in that house, but I didn't have a choice. We would be out on the street.
 
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September 7, 2007, 4:03 am PDT

Self Image

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I don't know, I just feel like I have changed from a very pretty young woman to a practically middle-aged woman...and it shows!

It is difficult to grow older and see how our bodies have changed when all around us we see women that are in their 40's on TV and in magazines that seem to never age.  Cosmetic plastic surgery is something that everyone is getting because they just can't accept themselves for who and what they are.
 
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September 7, 2007, 8:32 am PDT

having a baby

I am 28 years old and have never really liked my body and am puzzled that men have been attracted to me in the past and am even more shocked that my husband is still attracted to me.  After my having a baby it got even worse. My baby is over a year old and I still am in a rut which I have some responsibility for.  My husbands ex-wife shed a lot of weight and she looks great.  I do not like what I see in the mirror.  I do not look good my clothes anymore.  My husband says "I'm fluffy" which is the nice way of saying that I am now "fat".
 
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September 7, 2007, 9:05 am PDT

My Self Image almost killed me

My own Mom hates the sound of my voice. I am totally incapable of talking low or soft. My loud high pitched voice grates on everyones nerves. I am constantly being shushed.

I am OLD looking, overweight too chesty and was told by my Grand daughter (God love the honest child) that my boobs look like squidward's nose. I have varicose veins that gross my grandson out. My belly is so large that if I were younger people would be asking if the baby was overdue.

 My hair is thin, I have no chin just a waddle where it should have been. I have an old man's butt, yellow teeth, so many freckles they run together. I have hanging moles so large that the kids call them meatloaf.

I am too tall for a woman so it is hard to just hide in the crowd, everyone notices me. (My hight pitched loud voice doesn't help here either)

All of this is on the outside, I am misunderstood most of the time so what is on the inside is not much liked either. I come across as too assertive, accused of thinking I "Know it all" and often thought of untruthful when I relate things from my past, as if no one could possibly have lived the life I clam to have lived, But I did live it -- did not much want too-- but if fact did.

I truly believe that if I were beautiful on the outside and spoke with a soft pleasing voice that I would be a more believable me. I could be myself without making people mad. At the very least, I would stop wanting out of this body every time I look in a mirror.

 
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September 7, 2007, 9:29 am PDT

I am just me

Overall I would say that I have a good self image and I like me.  Yes, since turning 40 this year I groan at gravity but for the most part if I don't like my hair I change it to something I like.  If others don't like it who cares.  If I think I should lose a couple of pounds I don't gripe about it I go for a walk.  I want my tummy flatter and I do groan about doing crunches and sit ups and whatever else it's called today but in the end I am pleased that I am doing something for me and it does get easier.  Women always say that they don't want to be like their mothers.  If I start doing something that my mother does that I don't like I stop.  These are all things about me that I can control.  The things I can't control, Height, shape, freckles, no boobs.  These are things I just accept.  I was made this way and I will not do any surgery for vanity.  Sorry, the thought of recovery time and pain are not worth it to me.  Not everyone will like me but the most important thing is that I really like me and if others don't that's ok.  Not everyone is meant to get along.

Have a good day all.

 
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September 7, 2007, 1:37 pm PDT

I only wish!

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Overall I would say that I have a good self image and I like me.  Yes, since turning 40 this year I groan at gravity but for the most part if I don't like my hair I change it to something I like.  If others don't like it who cares.  If I think I should lose a couple of pounds I don't gripe about it I go for a walk.  I want my tummy flatter and I do groan about doing crunches and sit ups and whatever else it's called today but in the end I am pleased that I am doing something for me and it does get easier.  Women always say that they don't want to be like their mothers.  If I start doing something that my mother does that I don't like I stop.  These are all things about me that I can control.  The things I can't control, Height, shape, freckles, no boobs.  These are things I just accept.  I was made this way and I will not do any surgery for vanity.  Sorry, the thought of recovery time and pain are not worth it to me.  Not everyone will like me but the most important thing is that I really like me and if others don't that's ok.  Not everyone is meant to get along.

Have a good day all.

Women always say that they don't want to be like their mothers. I only wish I were more like my Mom. The name Not_my_mom was intended as an "I do not measure up to my Mom" I might not want to be like her on the inside. She is she and I am me. However, I would love to have taken at least some of my otter shell from her. She was, well actually still is, drop dead gorgeous.
 
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September 7, 2007, 1:43 pm PDT

wish I could eddit that last one

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Women always say that they don't want to be like their mothers. I only wish I were more like my Mom. The name Not_my_mom was intended as an "I do not measure up to my Mom" I might not want to be like her on the inside. She is she and I am me. However, I would love to have taken at least some of my otter shell from her. She was, well actually still is, drop dead gorgeous.

Just call me dumb-fingers and have a laugh on me. "otter shell???" I was trying to say outer shell.

 
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September 7, 2007, 5:24 pm PDT

Self Image

When you suffer from depression how can you have a positive self image.  You try and make yourself better but ever thing you try only seems to make things worse.  You see doctors they try and medicate you to much.  You don't have the family support you need.  Your friends up and leave because you just bring them down too.  How do you see yourself?  But as a loser a lost cause?
 

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