How to stop feeling like a low life?

As of today, I’m fat, depressed, friendless, and not suicidal but near there. It seems as if everywhere I look, esp. @school, everyone’s happy and skinny, and far more perfect than me. It’s like other people are T-Bone steaks and I’m just a can of Spam. I don’t have any friends, so today in English class, I wondered why. It’s because I’m fat. Around here where I live, you’re not allowed to be fat. In order to be accepted you HAVE to be skinny. I’m currently on a diet and I go to the gym 5 times a week, I’m losing weight, but I feel I’m not losing fast enough and I’m not losing enough. (I’ve heard people talking and they haven’t been saying good things). I feel like I have to conform to what society expects me to be: either be fat and shut up, don’t talk and seem like a lazy slob (I do this now…even though I’m total opposite) or be skinny and be free. I want to be skinny and free, so that I can be myself. I can’t be myself the way I am now, I keep things in and to myself. Yes, I’ve thought about the whole not eating thing, but I’m a compulsive eater, and yes I have thought about the whole throw up after you eat thing, but I love my teeth way WAY too much! Basically, how can I stop feeling like this? I’d have to deal with it myself since I have no friends at all. People are just too ignorant to talk to me, if they did, they’d love me as I’m a very caring person. How can I lose weight faster and I mean faster, I need my life normal or I will literally just die. I guess you could say this is a cry for help.

Answer #1

I had a tough time in high school as well. I was socially awkward, overweight, and bad at sports. Sports were about the only thing anyone cared about in my HS. I was a complete social pariah; even most of the unpopular kids wouldn’t hang with me. I was so socially awkward I used to joke that they only reason I opened my mouth was to change feet.

High school is a very toxic environment. Many teenagers are so insecure that they can only feel better about themselves by putting someone else down. Other status conscious teens feel like they can’t associate with unpopular kids or risk falling out of favor with the popular ones. For anyone who is a little different in any way the pressure to conform is huge.

I do know that some of the popular kids I knew in high school now have been married 3 times, can’t find a good job, and are in poor health. It is like they peaked too early and it was all downhill from there. If you are anything like me you will be a late bloomer and the best is yet to come for you.

Loosing weight is not going to solve all your problems. It is a good thing to want to be healthier but you need to be doing it for the right reasons, not just to gain approval from other people.

Nobody can make you feel bad about yourself without your approval. If you know you are a good person you have to stop caring so much about what other people think. There are few things less attractive than self-loathing. You are giving other people too much power over you.

Answer #2

I wish we could give you professional advice, but none of us are qualified to do so

I think your equation of skinny = happy and popular is wrong though, if that helps any. If you’re in high school, people can be pretty ignorant, mean and stupid, no matter what anyone looks like, so my biggest advice is to hang in there until high school is over. Once you get to college, people are so much more mature, nicer and cooler (and smarter!)

If you don’t think you can wait, I’d suggest seeing a counselor to help you work through your self-esteem issues. I promise, if you got the self-esteem, people would see that and be pulled toward you.

Answer #3

I know how you feel and I feel the same way but I try (very hard I might add) to ignore what people say and I just hang out with people who understand and except me self approval is more important than what anybody else thinks live is too short to give a s$@% what other people think and self cofidence is the best way to show them that you don’t care what people think about u if you ever need to talk you can talk to me hope you feel better = ‘ ‘ =

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