A person's negative opinion of you has nothing to do with you. That's their own problem and their own issue that they need to work through, you shouldn't feel guilty or bad because of what somebody else has chosen to think of you. You are in control of your own emotions, don't give some random person the luxury of being able to control what you feel and how you feel about yourself.

Yeah, because that's possible.

EDIT: sry I totally misread this don't mind me I'm sleep deprived carry on

This is how I developed really thick skin:

1. Work on your self esteem and self confidence. Don't base your self worth on other people.
2. Don't take anything personally. It hasn't anything to do with you anyway. EVEN THE GOOD OPINIONS.
3. Even if someone complements you, don't take it by heart. Thank them and move on. In that way, even insults won't get to you.

Good luck. It takes practice and it comes with experience.

Actually I think we're kind of overlooking the most important thing here: how old are you? Because that's kind of just part of being a teenager. It'll go away with time as you grow up. You start caring less about what people think as you get older.

I've had terrible self-esteem for years and I've gone through this as well. It's a work in progress... We'll make it through together.

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I had such low confidence and self esteem before this year and was really self conscious. I would struggle if I thought anyone was staring at me on the street and I wouldn't do anything to draw attention to myself.

So at the start of this year I decided I wanted to change a few things, and to make them obvious changes. The most significant thing I did was dye my hair, from brunette to a bright red. I personally really liked it, but the first day or so was a bit difficult because obviously people stared. After a couple of days I just stopped caring about the stares because I realised something; the people around us are miserable. Why should we have to live our lives based on the opinions of people who aren't happy with their own? So that really helped me.

I even get comments from time to time from random people who tell me that I need to change my hair colour and surprisingly, it doesn't bother me anymore. If my hair colour bothers people that much then they really don't have much going on for them and that says more about them than me. Had random people told me last year that I had to change things about myself I would have been so shaken up because my self esteem was that bad, so I'm definitely glad I did something about it.

Just keep thinking to yourself that if anyone puts you down, it's because themselves have low self esteem.

People who are fine with themselves don't have to put others down.

You can come hang with me and my friends for a while, we will teach you everything. In no time you will be ignoring those bishes.

Try distance yourself from your emotions. That's the best way I've found. Also rationalising situations can help a lot too.