Laurence Mitchell subtly shows you the painful self-mistrust of the paedophilic young man, establishing how (in a way) neither of these needy people want to play the kinky forfeit game the older one has instigated and that only Oscar's flash of clairvoyance about the man's married status serves to prevent.
And you look at someone like Adrian Peterson with the deep, haunting self-mistrust of knowing that he probably learned all his lessons from a beating too, and despite millions of dollars and every opportunity in the world, when he reached for a tool, the only one he thought to grab was a stick.
As he writes in a Nachlass note of 1887, regarding those "human beings who are of any concern to me": "I wish [them] suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities — I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished" (WP 910).
13 Homelessness interferes with these and other elements key to recovery: for example, it complicates illness management and medication maintenance, erodes self-control and self-esteem and engenders mistrust and self-isolation.
In times of stillness we create a space where low self-esteem, self-doubt, fear, mistrust, or any other emotion may come, be seen, and pass through.
Since this happened, I have turned into a jealous, self-conscious, mistrusting person with friends and boyfriends alike.
That culture has given rise to a poisonous climate of self-censorship and mistrust that permeates communities and families.
Thus, from earliest infancy, was Saddam nurtured - like a Stalin born into very similar circumstances - in the bleak conviction that the world is a congenitally hostile place, life a ceaseless struggle for survival, and survival only achieved through total self-reliance, chronic mistrust and the imperious necessity to destroy others before they destroy you.
The unrepentant, those who play the denial game or throw up the walls of self-defense engender mistrust and compel us to ask, "What are they hiding?" They convey the kind of arrogance that portrays cowardice.
In times of stillness and meditation (see Be The Change Meditate e-Conference) we create a space where self-doubt, fear, mistrust, sadness, anger, confusion, or any other emotion can come and be seen and pass through.
But his self-assurance also excited mistrust.
