I don't know what's wrong with me and i wonder if you could express your opinion on this topic.. I've always been succesful in my life, i won "body and looks" competitions for magazines, doing well in my Higher education studies, am sociable etc... But the thing is I feel like I'm "in love " with myself... Is that possible? Can someone feel like that? It has nothing to do with feeling superior, I'm nothing like that.. Don't get me wrong.. I have a high self-esteem but I'm no snobby and I never hurt anyone in my life, neither emotionally nor physically ( well, except once -physically).. Am I really "in love" with myself or is there another desrciption to what I'm feeling?
2006-09-10 10:23:43 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There we go.. I strictly explained I don't feel superior to others and there you go ladies and gentlemen, a guy here said that I do... No comment
2006-09-10 10:29:56 · update #1
I never said I love myself more then anything.. COMMON!!!!!!!
2006-09-10 10:31:46 · update #2
Would you be willing to share some of that with me?
2006-09-10 10:33:08 · answer #1 · answered by megmom 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there is a "really thin" line between having self esteem and being conceited. The only people who can answer that question are your friends and family. But I have met people who seem to be in love with themselves and being the modest, non-successful but extreamly hansome person I am, I say rock on. You are you and you can't change that. "just try not to look in the mirror quite as often"
2006-09-10 10:33:01 · answer #2 · answered by conap31 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's nothing wrong with having a healthy self-respect. Only you can know if that self-respect crosses the line. There's no harm as long as you don't put your own needs ahead of everyone else and show disrespect to others.
2006-09-10 10:35:59 · answer #3 · answered by cj_justme 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is such a thing as being in love with yourself- Narcissusism (try saying that 5 times fast!)
But I don't think your in love wiht yourself, you'r just slef-confdent and are'nt shy or worried about stuff. You should be happy, don't go crazy trying to pull Freud on yourself!
2006-09-10 10:31:26 · answer #4 · answered by ~*Prodigious*~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ever hear of the story of Narcissus? This may be what you are experiencing. Narcissus was a young man quite like yourself, good looking, smart, and succesfull, but he loved himself more than anything and so while he gazed into a pool to take in his own reflection the Gods of myth turned him into a tree overlooking the pool.
2006-09-10 10:28:34 · answer #5 · answered by snoop_dougie_doug04 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's called pride and it sounds like you have a lot to be proud of. No, you are not in love with yourself, you are just one of the rare people out there that actually likes who they are, what they are and how their life is going. Good for you!!
2006-09-10 10:28:28 · answer #6 · answered by Starla_C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You shouldn't feel bad for loving yourself. When you love yourself and are secure in who you are, you tend to treat others better. However, if that love for yourself makes you think that you are better than or above anyone else that's when you need to examine whether it's a love for yourself or an overcompensation for something else. As long as your love for yourself helps you to treat yourself and others well then you shouldn't question it. Most people are searching for that ability to love themselves. Most problems occur when people don't find the ability to love themselves enough, that's when they normally turn on others to make themselves feel better.
2006-09-10 10:32:29 · answer #7 · answered by GHV 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not really enough info.
If you are not hung up on yourself it is probably not that you are so much in love with yourself as it is that you like who you are and what you are. It sounds like perhaps you are proud of your accomplishments and your moral, ethical standards. If that is the case ... There is nothing wrong with it as long as you don't become to egotistical.
2006-09-10 10:27:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing wrong with feeling good about yourself and taking pleasure in your accomplishments. If we did not love ourselves we would all be miserable. Enjoy life! and above all love others too.
2006-09-10 10:28:59 · answer #9 · answered by old man 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the problem is it is SELF centered, and whether or not you think no one is getting hurt by the way your acting, you would do well to do some asking. the best thing I can do here is let the word of God speak to you:
2People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 2 Tim.3:2-4
By your own admition, you are one of these, any doubt that there is anything wrong with it now?
2006-09-10 10:32:55 · answer #10 · answered by setfreejn836 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You may have narcissistic personality disorder.
And you say that you have hurt someone only one time in your life? How old are you? Two months?
You may very well have an overexaggerated sense of your own self-worth coupled with an underexaggerated sense of others' worth.
Narcissists tend to believe they are beyond reproach.
2006-09-10 10:27:34 · answer #11 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋