I have come to find that when it comes to being in recovery with mental illness, I believe that it's about recreating yourself. Once I regained myself back in the few months of recovery last year, I came to replace my old, ugly characteristics of myself with better, healthier ones!
And it's never easy to do, almost as much as loving yourself unconditionally but yet I managed to do that regardless of how many countless times my parents kept taking away my self worth!