Compliments

does anyone else have trouble accepting a compliment? i always think that the person is either lying or being sarcastic.

For me it's exactly the same. I just can't accept that it's meant honest or with a good intention.
Things become even worse for me because often I just start laughing although I don't want to and people either think that I make fun of them or they can see how uncertain of myself I am and start talking about it: "it's really good, bla bla bla, be more self-consciousness of yourself bla bla bla".

In the last year I lost a lot of weight and when I meet people that I've not seen for a long time it's everytime the same: Girls at first don't recognize me and when I say: "Hey, it's me!" they are all eyes and when I get compliments I don't know what to say...mostly just "yes"

I wouldnt want anyone to compliment me, im a pathetic loser it wouldnt mean anything to me.

Darkrun wrote:does anyone else have trouble accepting a compliment? i always think that the person is either lying or being sarcastic.

That's the same with me. I just can't stand it. I'm clearly not worthy of that compliment nor do I have the quality being complemented, so why joke about that? It's mean. Though, I think deep down I really do want those complements. It's just that by accepting them, it would prove my self-derogatory schema wrong, and that's not okay. The thought of that ambushing me is just ...and in front of someone else who now supposedly thinks highly about me for whatever reason