u/Historical_Yak9336

it keeps happening. people saying I need to change myself. that ill never make it like this. as if I don’t already know that. as if I’m not the one trying to push myself out of my comfort zone everyday and crashing out afterwards, but no, I’m just not *trying hard enough*. as if it were so easy I wouldnt have already done it. and they act like its such helpful advice.

I’m so mad. I’ve worked so hard to get to where I am now, to work on my self-esteem issues and I’m SO MUCH better than how I used to be, but now people are suddenly interjecting to tell me how I’ll ‘never make it like this’.

I stopped cutting. I managed to overcome my food anxiety and my perfectionism. social anxiety is a work in progress, but I AM trying. and yet everyone around me keeps telling me to go back to the person I was when I was my most miserable. and try to make me learn back all the things I tried so hard to unlearn over the years.

its so hard to want to get better when everyone only has bad things to say about what I do. as if my progress is a regression to them. when it’s already so hard to make progress at all.