I'm curious how many people here struggle with self-hate.
I'm not curious but I'd guess quite a few.

Do you believe your self-hate is the cause of your other emotional problems, or the other way around?
The chicken definitely came first
Seriously that's a tough question. There had to be some reason for the self hate to be there originally but it probably would have originated from an external source. I know that it definitely causes and exacerbates other problems.

If you've made it past self-hate, what techniques did you find helpful to get you through?
That's so hard. If you do things in an attempt to eliminate the self hate...then these things don't seem to be genuinely altruistic. Or are they? I suppose the effort is an attempt to do something good for yourself. Oops, just looked up altruism...it's for the benefit of others.

Good questions...sorry I don't have good answers