Hopefully, you are among those fortunate enough to have avoided health issues involved with the coronavirus. But this pandemic has affected every single one of us in more ways than one. New family ...

Like everyone, I occasionally fall into the self-pity trap. And when we’re caught in that trap, it’s kind of embarrassing to ask for help. On top of whatever disappointing thing happened to cause the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 4—Editor's note: This column was published originally on March 6, 2021. Compassion, being with someone's suffering and then ...

“I think it hurts a little bit too much,” Mia (Emma Stone) says to Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) in “La La Land” while discussing the perils of trying to make it in the industry. If you’re an aspiring ...

Self-pity is the emotion we experience when we're preoccupied with our troubles, focusing solely on our own suffering and perceived misfortunes, as we compare our lives with how we imagine the lives ...

When the going gets tough, it is easy to turn down the self-pity highway and punch the gas! Surely when we overly focus on our unmet desires, compare ourselves or circumstances unfavorably to others, ...

Feeling sorry for yourself and can’t snap out of it? Self pity is a trap that many of us fall into at some point in our lives. However, generic advice to simply “think positive” or “focus on the good” ...

ONE of the established traditions of American popular songs is that of being sorry for yourself. The lyric school of self-pity began in the early years of the nineteenth century, and it is still going ...

There are seasons when disappointment settles so deeply into our hearts that we begin believing we’ll always feel this way. We replay old hurts, focus on what we’ve lost, and quietly accept a life of ...

Be honest: Are you playing the victim after your divorce or breakup? Are thoughts of self-pity filling your mind, keeping you from healing and moving on? Your person has left you. You are alone and ...

After fourteen hours of excruciating pain, something had to give. What? I had no idea, because there seemed to be no way out of the excruciating pain that I found myself in. They led me to my assigned ...