unworthiness
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This led to dark and distressing thoughts about her appearance, including ongoing feelings of unworthiness.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026
It hurts because it always hurts to be shunned — but if it’s any consolation at all, it also really does seem to be about her derangement, not your unworthiness of courtesy.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2023
“All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value — to you I say, ‘I’m not talking about being as good as you.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 2022
You deserve a chance to explore and identify where you may feel compassion, misplaced responsibility, a sense of unworthiness about the joy you very much deserve to experience, survivor’s guilt, a desire to fix, etc.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2019
If his upbringing at the abbey had specialized in anything, it was instilling a profound sense of unworthiness.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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