When teens experience self-hatred, they’re not just having a bad day. But psychiatrist Dr. Blaise Aguirre says it’s possible for parents to help their kids. Here’s how.

Self-hatred encompasses continual feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and low self-esteem. People may constantly compare themselves to others, perceive only the negative and ignore the positive, and ...

When teens experience self-hatred, they’re not just having a bad day. But psychiatrist Dr. Blaise Aguirre says it’s possible for parents to help their kids. Here’s how.

When teens experience self-hatred, they’re not just having a bad day. But psychiatrist Dr. Blaise Aguirre says it’s possible for parents to help their kids. Here’s how.

Self-hatred encompasses continual feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and low self-esteem. People may constantly compare themselves to others, perceive only the negative and ignore the positive, and ...

Self-hatred may be so much a part of a person's identity they don't think it can be changed, Dr Aguirre says. This means they don't bring it up in therapy.

And self-hatred is not the only way a person can have a distorted self-concept, and therefore require different treatment. For example, another self-concept condition, ...

By Matt Villano, CNN (CNN) — Psychiatrist Dr. Blaise Aguirre has become an expert in self-loathing.No, it’s not because he experiences self-hatred.