#guilt

• To self-flagellate — To whip or scourge oneself, as an act of ritual penance or physical mortification in certain religious practices. Figuratively and psychologically, it denotes extreme self-reproach, severe self-accusation, or excessive mental punishment over a mistake or guilt.
• Self-flagellation — The act of whipping or scourging oneself; ritual self-flagellation performed as a physical penance. Figuratively and psychologically, it denotes a destructive mental process of severe self-accusation, extreme self-reproach, and exaggerated emotional punishment driven by deep guilt.
• Self-flagellated — Having whipped or scourged oneself as an act of penance. Figuratively, it describes a person in a state of extreme moral self-punishment, overwhelmed by their own severe self-reproach, intense regrets, and repeated psychological accusations.
• Self-slandered — Having defamed oneself; subjected to an intentional process of discrediting through one's own false and derogatory statements. In clinical terminology, it describes the moral status or psychological state of a subject who assumed fictitious guilt.
• To self-blame — To consider oneself guilty on one's own initiative; to unjustly or exaggeratedly attribute to oneself the responsibility for a failure, an error, an unfortunate event, or for the negative emotional state of those around. This destructive psychological mechanism involves excessive internal severity and an obsessive focusing of reproaches on one's own ego.
• Self-blame — The act of self-blaming and its result; a destructive and often unconscious psychological process through which an individual unjustifiably, disproportionately, or chronically assumes guilt for negative events, failures, or the suffering of those around them. This structural act of self-blame severely erodes self-esteem and is frequently correlated with depressive or anxious episodes.
• To self-flagellate — To self-flagellate; to inflict whips or severe physical punishments on oneself as an act of religious penance, expiation of sins, or mystical fanaticism. Figuratively, the term describes the action of self-deprecating or critically blaming oneself in an excessive, harsh, and destructive manner due to deep guilt.
• Self-flagellation — The act of self-flagellating and its result; a practice consisting of voluntarily inflicting whips or other severe bodily punishments on one's own body, specific to mystical penance rituals. Figuratively, it represents a psychological behavior marked by excessive self-criticism, obsessive guilt, and systematic self-deprecation following a failure.
• Self-flagellated — Regarding persons or actions: self-flagellated; having inflicted physical punishments or whipping upon oneself for penitential purposes. Broadly and figuratively, it describes an individual deeply marked by feelings of guilt, adopting an attitude of severe self-deprecation and harsh self-criticism, refusing self-forgiveness.
• Self-flagellation — A neologistic morphological variant of the term 'autoflagelare'; the act of inflicting bodily punishments or lashes upon oneself as a mystical penance. In a modern conceptual sense, it describes the state or psychic process of moral self-torment, where an individual's consciousness induces continuous suffering through repeated reproaches, acting as a guilt-repressing mechanism.
• Self-reproach — To blame oneself for a mistake, attitude, or action considered inappropriate or harmful; to make self-reproaches or to experience internal guilt for a failure or shortcoming. This psychological mechanism reflects a harsh critical self-analysis, which can function either as a regulatory ethical awareness or, in excess, as a source of emotional stress and persistent guilt.