i too suffer from s-e issuses, and i am sick and tried of my friends telling me but your beautiful, or your so pretty.
i don't see that in the mirror. in fact when i fix my hair or put on my makeup i don't look at my face, if that makes any sense.
i don't feel comfortable when i go out and i can feel someone look at me, oh man that's not a good feeling for me.
for me to heal in this area will take baby steps, i can somewhat take a compliment, but it's still kinda of hard.
totally get how your feeling about being brushed off about this issue