self-despair

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ despair.

Noun

self-despair (uncountable)

1. Despair about oneself or one's own actions or behaviour. [from 17th c.]
   • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Prelude:

     Her flame […] soared after some illimitable satisfaction, which would reconcile self-despair with the rapturous consciousness of life beyond self.

   • 2007, Alexander Theroux, chapter 45, in Laura Warholic:

     Tripping herself up with sadder and more and more neurotic acts of self-despair.