self-criticism
- noun
- /ˈsɛlfˌkrɪtɪsɪzəm/
- In addition, approach-coping strategies were found to moderate the deleterious effects of self-criticism on participants' depressive mood after childbirth.
- self-criticism and dependency
- capacity for self-criticism
- self-criticism and depression
So you could be sitting there meditating and feeling shame, doubt, self criticism, frustration.
- So you could be sitting there meditating and feeling shame, doubt, self criticism, frustration.
- You're full of negative thinking and criticism and self criticism and so on.
- Just incredible self criticism and beating myself up mercilessly.
- And especially when our anxiety latches on to self loathing, to self criticism.
- I think there's a has to be a A, as Rosa Luxembourg said, there has to be ruthless self criticism, A lot of it.
- So our our foes and our competitors take advantage of this self criticism because it is not something that they share.
- Well, I think that there's, I've seen like a lot of like very sort of moderate like self criticism.
- And now that anxiety is through the roof or that self criticism is, you know, the self doubt is, is even greater.
- Heap on the self criticism, Grab the alcohol, eat your face off, sit in your house, isolate.
- It's their judgment triggering your own self loathing, self judgment, self criticism, self condemnation that is so painful.
- Is there a way to think of self criticism in a more productive way that is actually helps you move forward?
- And and it, it speaks to a, a sort of larger problem of self criticism that many of us are quite critical of ourselves for just any number of things.
- That self criticism shows that you're helping the enemy and that you are not really a loyal citizen of your own country.
- So we're not building analytical self-awareness, self criticism, self complement.
- And it's a habit of self rejection of self criticism.
Examples
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Emotionally weakened by my incessant self-criticism, I was thirsty for validation.
Academic text (1997) -
We propose a model in which self-criticism functions as vulnerability to depressive symptoms in the childbearing period.
Academic text (2003) -
And when you let go of that problem of self criticism, you learn and experience for the first time in your life self love.
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Is there a way to think of self criticism in a more productive way that is actually helps you move forward?
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That action, that intention behind it is self rejection, it is self criticism, it is self hatred.
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You're full of negative thinking and criticism and self criticism and so on.
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And I, I think self criticism is, is absolutely crucial, being human to begin with, but, but this is what's disappearing.
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In my view, then, sustained self-criticism is a prerequisite for being able to speak on the topic with credibility.
Academic text (1996) -
And amidst all this patriotism, they also have developed a propensity for searing self-criticism.
Academic text (1992) -
Through daily self-criticism, she was able to identify areas for personal improvement.
Synonyms
Saying negative things about yourself to make praise seem less important
To blame yourself for mistakes or failures
A feeling of blaming yourself for something you did wrong
A feeling of blaming yourself for a mistake
Blaming yourself for things you did wrong
Antonyms
How Self-Critical
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Self-criticism combines self ('oneself') and critic ('judge' or 'someone who points out faults'), so a helpful way to remember it is that it is literally judging yourself; self-criticism means finding faults in your own actions or character.