On Self-Hatred: Learning to like oneself (Lessons for Life)

If you truly believe that there’s something wrong with you, inherently - please read this book. I swear down it will broaden your perspective

School of Life does such a good job of putting our issues, where they come from, how to have compassion for ourselves and our faults.This is maybe the 3rd or 4th School of Life book I have purchased, and all have extremely helpful in my journey.

I wanted to like this book, but it was so repetitive and obnoxiously drawn out. The author seems to focus more on sounding super smart by using big words and advance grammar rather than just getting to the point. Starting a book and not finishing it is painful for me, so I powered through to finish this one, I just wish it was bearable.

Wish I had read it when I was growing up. Many days could have been happier and less anxious and productive.

I’m in depression now and am seeing therapy regularly. I think this book really help me to navigate through my long-term tendency of self-hatred and found a different way to cope with it.I find it really enjoyable to read when I am alone in my bed during night.

Reading this book made me look deep inside myself and my past and see some the things I did wrong, and remember fondly the things I did right. Highly recommended!!

Takes a thoughtful spin on traditional definitions of mental health and captures a truth that many of us judge ourselves and the world through the wonky lens of self-hatred. Realising this warped perspective - because indeed we are all fallible humans - can be really freeing. It’s not the world we need to fear but our own damaged beliefs and instincts.

Healing through understanding self-hatred rather than pushing self-love. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

A wake up call. Treat yourself like you treat others (if your kind to others!)Get off the roller coaster

While this is nicely written and offers a basically positive message, it is quite extraordinary to see a book that undoubtedly draws on the work of many other people be utterly unreferenced. The ideas presented here should not be attributed to the anonymous SofL author; it’s misleading and takes credit for a lot of other people’s hard work. It’s important to have accessible books discussing these kinds of subjects, but surely they could have at least signposted to the work they are drawing on. That aside, it adds very little to what is already out there, and, has been noted in other reviews, is pretty shallow, and at times contradictory. It smacks of someone ‘trying’ to be a therapist whilst not really knowing anything about the complexity of self hatred (among other things - the section on suicide is particularly poor, and at times inaccurate).

It is a masterpiece. I have been consoled and comforted by reading it. I think my personal change will flow from it.I ordered it for my birthday. It's a befitting gift. Reborn of myself. Worth reading every now and then.