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“I am continuously struck by how frequently the various thought processes of the inner critic trigger overwhelming emotional flashbacks. This is because the PTSD-derived inner critic weds shame and self-hate about imperfection to fear of abandonment, and mercilessly drive the psyche with the entwined serpents of perfectionism and endangerment. Recovering individuals must learn to recognize, confront and disidentify from the many inner critic processes that tumble them back in emotional time to the awful feelings of overwhelming fear, self-hate, hopelessness and self-disgust that were part and parcel of their original childhood abandonment.”

Shame Imperfection Abandonment Perfectionism Abuse Survivors Survivors Healing Insights Self Criticism Self Hate Complex Ptsd Flashbacks Self Disgust

Author:Pete Walker

“Idealists can be quite a problem when they get disgusted with themselves.”

Idealists Self Disgust

Book:Super-Cannes

Source: Super-Cannes

“In this image (watching sensual murder through a peephole) Lorrain embodies the criminal delight of decadent art. The watcher who records the crimes (both the artist and consumer of art) is constructed as marginal, powerless to act, and so exculpated from action, passive subject of a complex pleasure, condemning and yet enjoying suffering imposed on others, and condemning himself for his own enjoyment. In this masochistic celebration of disempowerment, the sharpest pleasure recorded is that of the death of some important part of humanity. The dignity of human life is the ultimate victim of Lorrain's art, thrown away on a welter of delighted self-disgust.”

Murder Artists Decadence Masochism Decadent Consumer Disempowerment Voyeurism Self Disgust Diginty

Author:Jennifer Birkett

“There are times when self-disgust is a luxury, when you can scrooge around in it and feel delightfully unclean. There are other times when self-disgust is simply a destroyer. And there are yet other times, I know now, when self-disgust is a challenge.”

Book:The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe

Source: The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe

“He stopped at an intersection, panting, rubbing at the twinge in his hamstrings, looking around, though he knew no cars were coming in either direction. Dropping forward at the waist Martin admitted that he was fucking himself up. Dr Leonowsky told him: hurting yourself is an articulation of self-disgust. It helps no one, prevents nothing. This wasn’t a glorious loss of control, he was fooling himself, it was self-harm.”

Pain Shame Self Disgust

Book:Gods and Beasts

Source: Gods and Beasts

“But sometimes right in the middle of my work, or in the middle of the rest which, according to the same moralists, I deserve and ought to enjoy, my soul overflows with a bitter inertia, and I'm tired, not of working or of resting, but of me.”

Self Disgust Wearied

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet