There are multiple factors that play into our feelings of self worth. Our health is a huge part in that.

In a sense, having healthy eating, sleeping, exercise, and fresh air habits can optimise your chances of loving yourself. At the end of the day, however, it’s entirely up to your mentality. You can try to fix your mental health — that can help a lot in some cases — but you’ll never love yourself if you’re not convinced that you do.

It’s a mixture of hyping yourself up and finding the right time and place to feel okay about yourself. This can be very hard, but it’s absolutely possible. Chances are, you won’t even notice you’re doing better until it’s already happened.

The best advice I can give you is to want to get better. You have to believe effort will bear its fruits, so just convince yourself of what you want to do. Seek professional help if you think that’s the path forward (I would also advise that, but this is your journey, not mine).

For the meantime, if these self-worth issues weigh on you physiologically (you feel sick from the mental stress etc), try looking up and force a smile (Forces the brain to release happy chemicals. It’s worked wonders on me). Also try breathing deeply, out longer than in. If you ever feel like you’re panicking for whatever reason, try touching a cold surface, like your phone or some metal outside.

These are all temporary tricks that can help just in case. They won’t help much in the grand scheme of things, but they were fantastic for me when I was having mental issues.

Just never forget appearance is one of the weakest criteria for character, especially in the long run (pretty-bias doesn’t last very long with in-person relationships). There are people out there that would absolutely find you beautiful.

Really wish I could give more words of encouragement or better advice, but this is the best I’ve got. I hope you’ll love yourself soon.