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What makes a person hate themselves?"
"Cowardice, perhaps. Or the eternal fear of being wrong, of not doing what others expect. A few moments ago I was happy, I forgot I was under the sentence of death; then when I remembered the situation I'm in, I felt frightened.
Why are you attracted to self-sabotage? I
Abusiveness can be thought of as a recipe that involves a consistent set of ingredients: control, entitlement, disrespect, excuses, and justifications (including victim blaming) - elements that are always present, often accompanied by physical intimidation or violence.
It appears that DDNOS is the intentional goal of these abusers, but DID sometimes results from a failure of programming.
In DDNOS, the ANP is always present, even when another part is in control of the behavior and feelings.
Making love with his ego.
If you constantly beat yourself up with negative thoughts, you will either beat up on the people around you- verbally, emotionally, or physically- or you will beat up on yourself by destroying some area of your own life.
Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.
What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?
Vulnerable, messed-up, inadequate
Those who lack self-control lead disturbed and tumultuous lives; their crimes are balanced by their fears, and they are never at ease.
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.
I know that hunger for self-isolation, it eats u up. Disconnecting yourself from external world and longing to disappear.
Not giving a fuck and not being able to give a fuck.
Self-seeking is self-destruction
Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
You directed toward yourself a violence that you did not feel toward others. For them you reserved all your patience and tolerance. You
Self-destructive behaviors do not exist because there is a force within us that tries to hasten our return to an inorganic state; they exist because they provide short-term relief from pain that threatens to become intolerable.
When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realizatio n turns into self-absorption , other people can lose their intrinsic value in our eyes and become mere means to the fulfillment of our needs and desires.
Self-negation is noble, self-culture is beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared to self-abuse.
When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy.
I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.
Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.
Self-love isn't always so poetic; sometimes it's a nice big triple back flip kick in the ass. You've got to call yourself on your own nonsense; on the incredibly efficient way you can be self-destructive.
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?
Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.
Love Egoist
Sumire: At first, I was simply fighting the image others forced on me. It's true that it's kind of fun to curse people behind their backs, but ... I know it's not nice and it makes me feel depressed afterward.
I was physically abused and I retaliated.
Counterintuitively, self-hatred is one of the leading symptoms of clinical narcissism. Only by telling yourself and the world how much you hate yourself can you receive the reliable shower of praise and admiration in response that you feel you deserve ...
In each moment you are nurturing or damaging your relationship with yourself.
Rehashing thoughts of painful events from the past or imagining negative events of the future is self-abuse and can be more destructive than physical harm.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor.
A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself
Saying that someone is full of themselves is silly. Who else can one be full of ... except self?
I followed myself around like a bully, narrating my thoughts and actions with a constant stream of abuse.
Reacting to others and then blaming them for the way you handled yourself
Life is an addiction and self-preservation is its sweetest high
The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
I am a victim of my own behavior.
Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction ...
The frightened individual seeks for somebody or something to tie his self
to; he cannot bear to be his own individual self any longer,
and he tries frantically to get rid of it and to feel security again by the elimination of this burden:
the self.
Often self-love is replaced with self- loathing, compounded by beating ourselves up. We become experts at putting ourselves down, judging ourselves, and finding fault. This creates deep shame that says "I am a mistake" instead of saying "I made a mistake.
Though there can be other causes, most self-destructive behavior is the result of the fact that we have two minds that don't communicate very well.
Trying to pretend to oneself that a life of constant self frustration was in fact a great spiritual attainment.
Intention of seeking attention is an addiction. A vicious cycle which damages your health, finances and relationships. It will NOT improve your self-image, increase your self-worth or fulfill the need of genuine praise.
It is not a character fault or weakness or seeking attention. It is somebody who is ill.
Anyone with a way of thinking that sees and recognizes nothing but their own "EGO" has the potential to destroy their "SELF".
He cannot tolerate feelings of frustration as a more normal person can, and he is poorly able to rid himself of those feelings except through antisocial activity ...
myself ' and not taking
They feed their demon and it gets really strong and then it makes them stay in abusive relationships
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
The vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.
Self-loathing is hell.
Self-sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about making sure it doesn't happen.
A narcissism shared by two.
Self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal.
I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest.
Lust, Pride, Sloth, and Gluttony, or, as we call them these days, "getting in touch with your sexuality," "raising your self-esteem," "relaxation therapy," and "being a recovered bulimic."
losing it on the world. But even if the
Ego-tendencies. Like a magnet, the new centre [i.e., self] attracts to itself that which is proper to it.80 As a
Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.
Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.
a chronic malcontent, albeit quite a purposeless one.
Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.
Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.
I have to take care of myself. It's about self-preservation.
What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression ...
There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.
What would someone who loves themselves do?
The cycle of abuse interspersed with occasional bouts of kindness keeps you stuck, waiting and hoping for the kindness to return. And it does, on occasion, only to be swept away.
He has a need for attention, to have attention focused on him - for better or worse. The worst punishment I can give him is to ignore him, which I've done, fairly successfully,
It is understandable why a person might shirk a brutal self-assessment until the unforgiving talons of a reckless life rips their thin skin covertures into shreds leaving a person ensnared in their destructive thoughts and lacerated with bolts of self-incrimination.
It is called in our schools 'beastliness', and this is about the best name for it ... should it become a habit it quickly destroys both health and spirits; he becomes feeble in body and mind, and often ends in a lunatic asylum.
Why does anyone do the things they do?
People always say the abused abuse and it is not true. I am totally the opposite.
Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
Patrick Carnes wrote an apt description of the addict's behavior: "The addict substitutes a sick relationship to an event or a process for a healthy relationship with others. The addict's relationship with a mood-altering experience becomes central to his life" (Carnes 2001, 14).
Egoism devours all the energy, and in addition it makes one suffer.
stupid, overbarbering, possesive, fur ball
The quiet but inexorable breaking down of self-esteem is much more sinister - it's violation of the soul.
Looking for approval or blaming others or feeling like a victim. Whenever I feel myself doing that I try to stop and see myself as someone who's a creator in more ways than just what the word typically means.
Rooting about in themselves for the source of their discomfort, they undergo agonies of unnecessary guilt. They seem blankly unaware that what they are feeling inside themselves is the subjective reflection of a much larger objective crisis: they are acting out an unwitting drama within a drama.
The self is every person's true enemy.
Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated.
The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure.
Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.
How much maltreatment and exploitation could someone handle before losing self-control?
people get trapped by using patterns of behavior to protect themselves against threats to their self-esteem and confidence and to protect groups, intergroups, and organizations to which they belong against fundamental, disruptive change.
I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
When we cannot handle our suffering, we spew forth our frustration and pain onto those around us. We are victims of our own suffering, but because we do not know how to handle it, we hurt others while we are in pain.
When you're constantly thinking of others and what they must be thinking or feeling or expecting, you wind up in this perpetual state of trying to please them. You see yourself through their eyes and you lose sight of who you are.
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
There are many types of emotional abuse but most is done in an attempt to control or subjugate another person. Emotional abuse is like brainwashing in that it systematically wears away at the victim's self-confidence, sense of self, trust in her perceptions and self-concept.
Pain + arousal = fucking bliss! Self-harming
Abused people cling to their abusers.
A person will complain about his problems, unwilling to receive solutions, while demanding attention trough a victimization, reflecting lack of responsibility.
It's mentally exhausting, feeling bad about something you can do nothing about.
You hate most in others what you hate most in yourself