Many days I don't feel I have a 'self', someone who is meant to be here, I often feel like I should be invisible. I don't have my own place and have never dated, b/c of years of systematic abuse... I feel if I have those things, somehow I'd be thinking I'm 'better' than someone else. I was taught to believe that even saying my opinion, even a positive one, that I was being 'rebellious'.. it has affected my life negatively. How can one just give themselves permission to have their own space, joy/love, a partner/ spouse etc without feeling they do not deserve it?