Everwhere is walking distance if you have the time

[mishka422]

Long, long, long process.

Boy, you aren't kidding. Not just a long process, a lifelong process.

Battling our self-image that has been our identity for our entire lives is something that we are not able to actually do. We just get better at the thought stopping process.

I have full on 'hate talks' with myself in my head on a daily basis. Thankfully, they have become shorter through a lot of therapy but hey won't go away entirely.

Since you feel like a failure when you don't have someone to go out with, try to come up with an activity in your home that makes you feel like you have accomplished something in doing it. You have said you are working on a book, right. When you have no outside activity to go to, would you feel better about yourself if you took that time to work on that? It's a goal to finish it right? It doesn't require anyone else to get it done. You'll feel great when it's done. Those are the things you can replace that 'loser' feeling with.