does it ever hit you that you're unloveable?

Started by Jolie40, April 12, 2021, 02:42:16 AM

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Jolie40

if you grew up feeling unloved by PD parent-

when a bad day comes, do you ever suddenly feel like maybe "you really are unloveable?"
be good to yourself

GettingOOTF

Yes all the time. I'm currently reading Do The Work by Dr Nicole LePera. She writes a lot on how how we were raised by our parents influences how we think about ourselves in terms of whether we are lovable etc. It has been very helpful for me to read. I am slowly seeing that these thoughts are not true and I've been working on changing them.

ArmadilloKate

The wounds are still there and yes get reactivated on bad days to the point where those things feel very true. My particular inner dialogue is a little different than yours but yes I experience the same and when I do it is very intense. Hugs! You are very loveable and I know you know that.


Call Me Cordelia

Yeah I had a bit of that today. I have been feeling tired and I wasn't particularly outgoing with some neighbors. They were deep in their own conversation and more or less left me out. This no big deal thing had me feeling all like I was back in middle school with no friends.

notrightinthehead

unloveable and worthless. Always lurking in the shadows, ready to jump when I feel low.
Another feeling that needs to be suffered through. Now I use Tara Brach's suggestion and greet that feeling with "You too" and focus on my breathing.  Fortunately feelings come and go, even such unpleasant ones.
I can't hate my way into loving myself.

BritBritBrit1

Yes, sometimes a voice deep inside me whispers, "If you were worthy, your father would love you unconditionally."  I feel such grief and hopelessness in that moment, but it passes quickly.  I have to remind that voice that I'm not the problem here and that my father is the one who feels unlovable.  It's hard to undo 46 years of thinking, but I'm working on it slowly.

Leonor

Yes, and here's a nice way to respond when you hear that mean voice in your head:

I love you.



MarlenaEve

I used to feel that way. However, I have gone through many self-love sessions and learned that if my family couldn't love me that is not a reflection of my ability to be loved, appreciated, and cared for.
I realized that my FOO is so so so different from me (like the day and night), so, I don't take anything they do or say personally. It's ALWAYS about them and their level of self-worth (which is inexistent btw). I can only feel sorry for them nowadays (sometimes I don't have the patience to feel sorry but most days I do. )

I strongly agree with the last comment and advice: to repeat i love you back to that negative, self-critical voice. It works.

You are loved. Whether you know it or not.

:bighug:
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing:
the last of the human freedoms-
to choose one's attitude in any
given set of circumstances, to choose
one's own way.
-Viktor Frankl

Lisa

Yes. it can at times be a real struggle.
"I'm not good enough" "no-one cares about me" "I don't matter" "I'm invisible" that come with deep feelings of lonlieness and disconnect from others.  It takes a lot of mental work, compassion and sometimes that doesn't work and I am stuck believing those things to be true until it somehow passes.

Jolie40

thanks to everyone who replied
and  :bighug: back to you!

be good to yourself

Spring Butterfly

You are loved very dearly and please know you can one day feel that from within yourself and love yourself in addition to the many people who do love you
Every interaction w/ PD persons results in damage — prep beforehand and make time after to heal
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Dandelion

#12
Not exactly.  I do mostly experience the world as uncaring and "unloving" though.

sandpiper

When I started T, several decades ago, the therapist asked me why I was there and how she could help me. I burst into tears and when I was finally able to consider what I wanted, I told her that I wanted them to fix me so that I would be someone that my family would love.
The shocked expression on her face will live in my memory forever as 'OMG what the hell kind of people has this poor girl been dealing with, to deliver her into a puddle of tears on my office floor?'
It still comes in waves in rotten moments.
But the expression on that counsellor's face is the best remedy I have to fight it.
I hope you'll imagine it & use my memory every time that rises up.
Abuse is abuse is abuse and the shame for that belongs with others, not with you.  :bighug:

daughter

My enNF had repeatedly told me, in matter-of-fact tone: "your mother doesn't like you, that's your problem", as if perfectly natural situation entirely removed from his own role as parent. He also told me, after NBM's most severe Big Bad Behavior episodes, when she cruelly and forcefully mistreated me, a dutiful docile SG daughter: "you're not part of our family; we don't care if we ever see you again.  Note, EnNF would say this, and still expect me to dutifully attend to their demands and expectations, as if I wasn't even allowed to have any feelings at all!

I'm NC, of course, but far too late to not have these terrible emotions imprinted upon me.   The obvious harm our parents are willing to inflict is inexcusable. 

Amadahy

In a weird way, I think my eating issues (binge eating) stem from self-loathing from Nmom"s abuse.  So frustrating and harmful. 😔
Ring the bells that still can ring;
Forget your perfect offering.
There's a crack in everything ~~
That's how the Light gets in!

~~ Leonard Cohen

Boat Babe

I don't feel unlovable but do feel bad that no-one ever wanted to marry me. I've got great friends and a good relationship with my adult son but no-one has ever fully committed to me and that hurts.
It gets better. It has to.

Jolie40

#17
sorry BoatBabe that your wish to marry went unfulfilled

agree daughter & Amadahy- the harm is inexcusable

sandpiper- families should offer unconditional love & it's so wrong when they don't
be good to yourself

SparkStillLit

BoatBabe: you dodged a bullet. 😁😁😁

Boat Babe

It gets better. It has to.