[Melmo]

I was doing ok lately with my self image and confidence. All came crashing down when my mom posted pictures of me and my daughter on her Facebook. I felt fat, disgusting an ugly, and just depressed. Anyone else hate pictures
of themselves?

[kaliope]

I hate pictures of myself as well. they are always horrible and I look so fat in them. I really avoid cameras because of this. so you are not alone. take care.

[blainewarbler]

I know how you feel I pick apart every little part of myself in photos but strangely it's the sound of my own voice I find most difficult to cope with. When I can hear myself talking because it's quiet or because someone had caught me talking on video that I HATE!

[benson123]

I don't like seeing pictures of myself. It makes me awful how I have let myself go. I have even lost weight in the last few weeks, but still don't like the way I look in pictures.

[nniuq]

Benson, that is how I feel too- seeing how I've let myself go is physical proof of my mental issues and in my mind shows I wasn't strong enough.

I don't understand pictures at all. They are a cause of great distress to me. I pick apart EVERY little detail in my pictures. I feel horrible if it is less than perfect.

I don't think I look bad, I know I look perfectly fine.

I don't think pictures tell the whole story, I'd rather let someone see me for reals, than a picture of me.

[Koko2]

Some people are photogenic, they look better in photos than in real life. I look better in real life than in photos, so I hate photos.

[pj4101]

Up until I was 50 I looked 10 years younger--now I'm 66 and look 10 years older. I absolutely despise looking at myself in pictures now. I avoid the camera as much as possible. And looking at pictures of myself 20 years ago just makes me very depressed. In the words of Cher "getting old sucks".

Originally Posted by Koko2

Some people are photogenic, they look better in photos than in real life. I look better in real life than in photos, so I hate photos.

I feel the same way too... I'm glad I'm not alone.

[Chief Bowwow]

Ugh....I am glad that I am the photo-taker, because pictures of me look simply awful. I had no idea that I was so . . . I mean, I thought I looked better than I did until I started seeing photos of myself from various angles.

I avoid cameras like the plague, I don't need proof of my own hideousness.

Besides my attempt at smiles almost always make look like I'm being tortured- which in a way I am.

Originally Posted by Chief Bowwow

Ugh....I am glad that I am the photo-taker, because pictures of me look simply awful. I had no idea that I was so . . . I mean, I thought I looked better than I did until I started seeing photos of myself from various angles.

I learned something that made me feel better. My phone's camera sucks, and the screen is so small that my features look abnormally huge when my whole face is crammed into the size of a match box. The same photos look better when seen on a bigger screen like a computer.

[txbipolar]

I avoid being in pictures! I hate it because I have NO pictures of my son and I. I just look so fat and distorted.

[Renee865]

Originally Posted by JustWantToBeNormal

I was doing ok lately with my self image and confidence. All came crashing down when my mom posted pictures of me and my daughter on her Facebook. I felt fat, disgusting an ugly, and just depressed. Anyone else hate pictures
of themselves?

Yes i dont know why we feel this way ,I wish we could see our self like others do ,people say oh your so beautiful and all I see is ,fat ,old unhappy someone I dont know.?

[UnderRugSwept]

JustWantToBeNormal

I HATE being photographed...someone told me recently that I am photogenic but that simply is not true. I look like crap in photos. Happily I don't have facebook so I can avoid that whole thing!! It's a bit ironic because photography is my favorite hobby, but I take nature photos.

[healingme4me]

I don't feel I'm photogenic, at times. There's some good and some not so good. Usually, involves my birth defect. I had some, this fall, i also felt my world came crashing, i felt made me look as though I was dying, sunken eyes, deep circles.
I find it depends on who takes photo.


PS, those were fb'd. Ugh, there need to be edit capacity, if it's you in photo, and someone else took it, posted it, youcontrol who can see it

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[MagicsMom]

I am not photogenic at all and will not allow my photo to be taken if I can help it. I cry if people force the issue.

Originally Posted by JustWantToBeNormal

I was doing ok lately with my self image and confidence. All came crashing down when my mom posted pictures of me and my daughter on her Facebook. I felt fat, disgusting an ugly, and just depressed. Anyone else hate pictures
of themselves?

I'm always kind of shocked when I see current photographs of myself. I'm shocked at how much I've aged, the weight I've gained, and the hair I've lost. My internal image of the way I look to myself is much different, and still reflects what I looked liked maybe 20 years ago. So, when I see the way I really look now and how the world really sees me, the discrepancy is very disturbing and depressing for me. My body is aging, but yet part of me remains a hurt little kid inside.

I want the world to see the younger me, because that part is still hurt, still wants to be someone, still wants to enjoy life, and still needs some kind of nurturing from the world. Yet, people just see me as an old failure, who is beyond the stage of being helped or deserving help (except for being medicated or being tossed into a nursing home eventually). When people see me now, they just see an old man who messed up his life. That is my perception of how people view me now. It may not be entirely accurate, but I think it is much of the time. And my aging body contributes to it.

[Hope6116]

I hate photos of myself too. I always feel like someone is judging me and I wished I could changed my appearance to look nice. I am hard on myself and feel like I am ugly and fat