self-hatred

Noun

Meaning

shame resulting from strong dislike of yourself or your actions

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Faderman, pp. 210, 266. Author Michael Bronski highlights the "attack on pre-Stonewall culture", particularly gay pulp fiction for men, where the themes often reflected self-hatred or ambivalence about being gay. Source: Internet

It is not enough that Egypt’s capitalism on crack and real estate speculation is skewing the economy, but it also ramps up hyper-individualism, greed, and various strands of self-hatred. Source: Internet

And there’s this one with narcissism, self-hatred. Source: Internet

Depressed people may be preoccupied with, or ruminate over, thoughts and feelings of worthlessness, inappropriate guilt or regret, helplessness, hopelessness, and self-hatred. Source: Internet

They don't know the self-hatred to which we are exhorted in big and small ways, and how it can turn into hatred of other fat people. Source: Internet

The pathology of homophobia, misogyny, and sexual self-hatred is hardly limited to midwestern farm country, but the film makes it seem as if it is. Source: Internet

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