“I don’t like myself” is one of the most quietly devastating sentences people carry. It rarely comes from nowhere. It comes from history, nervous‑system overwhelm, relational patterns, and environments that taught you to turn pain inward. In therapy, this phrase is almost never about who someone is. It’s about what they’ve had to survive. “I don’t like myself” is not a personality flaw. It’s a nervous‑system state. It’s an attachment wound. It’s a sign of overload, not inadeq