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Self-pity causes one to live in that past - instead of bravely facing the present. ... Self-pity opens the door for depression. Get rid of self-pity and you will rid yourself of one of the major causes of depression. I read of a person's account of his father passing away. Not many days thereafter, his mother wanted to...
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Elijah's panic, self pity and final despondency came at a time of exhaustion. He had needed rest and refreshment with God. Now he just looked inward and saw only his weak self. This is one of the causes of depression --ie.
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Self-Pity: Do you rise and shine or rise and whine? ... they love to swish around in self-pity. They believe the world is unfair and the only thing preventing them from enjoying it are their particular ‘problems.’; What makes feeling sorrow for oneself so insidious is that it is a sign of both unhappiness and the fact...
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One of the greatest dangers that can befall us when we find ourselves overtaken by sorrow is to lapse into self-pity.Yet it is so easy to do this. Self-pity is the "Poor me syndrome"; it is pouring pity on ourselves in the hope that the pain we are experiencing may be assuaged. ... When it causes us to turn inwards on oursleves,
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When you're down, and self-pity makes you cry, ... thru your tears all you ask your God is `why?' ; ... Can't you see, it's so very, very clear:
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www.doorway.to/poetry/self-pity.html
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and the most powerful feeling that overflows spontaneously in most prison poetry is self-pity. Few indeed are those so lacking in compassion that they ... But many (even relatively conventional) people are inclined to ascribe their purely private woes to social causes in order to distance themselves from their own unhappiness,
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Brendan O'Neill: The idea that black people are 'emotionally scarred' by slavery is borderline racist. ... Young black Britons risk being enslaved by self-pity thanks to the dodgy deterministic arguments of various community workers, commentators and officials.
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www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/mar/26/enslavedby...
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/mar/26/enslavedbyselfpity
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It is a far more productive model for liberals than self-pity or shock about the unsurprising fact that, now that Alito has replaced O'Connor, the Court has moved right. For example, Emily Bazelon of Slate has demanded that liberals and moderates who supported Roberts as a potential unifier (including me) recant.
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What goes on inside (or outside) of us that causes us to go through periods of intense struggle with lust? And if we find out, ... Self-pity is the other side of pride. Self-pity tells me what a poor thing I am. Self-pity tells me that I haven't received a fair shake in life. Self-pity tells me that I deserve some comfort.
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