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Research consistently shows that persons with a mental illness, such as depression, deal with both externalized (others) and internalized (self) shame.
Self-disgust indicates a context-free negative evaluation of the self (shame feelings) and also negative views about one's actions (guilt), and it is greatly enhanced in BPD.
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It is also an act of self-shaming, a public display of wounds that has opened the author to accusations of narcissism and self‑aggrandisement.
And now the season is coming round again, I look forward to another episode of Nietzschean will to power and the subsequent inevitable self-shaming.
1. Self-shame.
The settlers forced their self-shame upon the women.
She is probably experiencing deep self-shame and is afraid to reach out to others.
Here, you get a city with a persistent inferiority complex -- or a city going from seeking esteem in the face of perceived shame to finding esteem in self-shame.
And since we until very recently only accepted two sexes -- male, female -- it makes a certain amount of sense that self-shame about not fitting into one of those categories might be responsible for gay men so adamantly wanting a "masculine" partner, even when he in so many cases is as "swishy" as they come.
And while I quickly should have sought out a son of Freud, I never did: partly for fear of what he might have told me, partly for the self-shame of such an undertaking, but mostly because of a cowardly tenacious false pride.
But self-shaming just creates suffering.
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