I understand about saying nice things about yourself. I remember a counsellor once giving me an exercise of listing three nice things to say about myself in front of the mirror every morning... and it was awful and I gave up. BUT the idea is that if you keep saying it, eventually you will believe it. In the same way that you constantly say bad things about yourself, you get stuck in a loop believing it and it just makes things worse. It's hard but the cycle needs to be broken.
They don't have to be big nice things, it could just be "I'm a caring person" or "I like my eyes" and leave it at that, no counter arguments. You say it, accept it and leave it at that. Would that be worth a try?
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