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Real Life Stories . . .
Real people share how God changed their messed up lives.
A Young Woman from the UK is set free from self-hatred
and cutting herself ...
"By
the time I was 18 I had come to a place where I hated myself, I hated who
I was, how I looked and how I acted."
I was brought up in a loving, secure and incredibly fun
family. So how come I ended up feeling ugly, insecure, alone and
unloved? My life was pretty normal until I hit 16 and then I started as
most people do I guess, to notice things about myself that were not great.
By the time I was 18 I had come to a place where I hated
myself, I hated who I was, how I looked and how I acted. I had no
confidence and was so angry with who I was. God? I was pretty sure God
hated me too, why wouldn’t he? Look at me! I had mastered the craft of
being two people. The one that people saw where I seemed happy and just
fine and the other which was when I was alone, hating myself. I despised
myself so much that I totally distorted who I was and I had to punish
myself for being like this. At least if I punished myself I could feel
like I was paying for being such a loser. So I cut myself ...
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