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self-hatred

n. Hatred of oneself.

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self-hatred

n. shame resulting from strong dislike of yourself or your actions [syn: self-disgust]

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Self-hatred

Self-hatred (also called self-loathing) refers to an extreme dislike or hatred of oneself, or being angry at or even prejudiced against oneself. The term is also used to designate a dislike or hatred of a group, family, social class, or stereotype to which one belongs and/or has. For instance, "ethnic self-hatred" is the extreme dislike of one's ethnic group or cultural classification. It may be associated with aspects of autophobia.

The term "self-hatred" is used infrequently by psychologists and psychiatrists, who would usually describe people who hate themselves as "persons with low self-esteem". Self-hatred and shame are important factors in some or many mental disorders, especially disorders that involve a perceived defect of oneself (e.g. body dysmorphic disorder). Self-hatred is also a symptom of many personality disorders, including borderline personality disorder, as well as depression. It can also be linked to guilt for someone's own actions that they view as wrongful, e.g. survivor guilt.

Usage examples of "self-hatred".

Try to realize you are over-simplifying, dehumanizing, and vilifying others, possibly to rationalize your own hostility and maybe as a coverup of your own self-hatred.

I cannot deprive them of that small particle of comfort, for, were it not for it, they would soon feel hatred for themselves, and self-hatred often leads to the fatal idea of self-destruction.

His eerie needfulness, his obscene hunger, was drowned in this tide of misery and self-hatred.

I was now a void, into which I could feel the pourings, the dark flowings, of resentment and degradation, of bitterness and self-recrimination, of self-hatred.

A slow virus which emerged at last to make the body devour itself as in a spasm of biological self-hatred.