You have two choices: figure out how to make the best of the situation or let yourself sink into self-pity. Clearly, choosing to feel sorry for yourself can have some serious consequences.

No one wants to be seen as ‘that person who wallows in self-pity, and sometimes in our desire to not burden others, we begin to chastise our own emotions and try to fend them off entirely.

It was especially frustrating because, as mentioned in my previous column, this semester is my last hurrah, and I wanted it to be amazing. Only hours ago I was swimming in self-pity, that ...

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 ...

Whether you’ve failed to close a major deal, or you’re overwhelmed by a looming deadline, throwing a pity party won’t help. In fact, feeling sorry for yourself can become downright self ...

To compound issues of the ‘self’ with still greater negative output is to live in self-pity. The saddest words, either said or written, are “It might have been”. It is the small rivulets ...

But overwhelmingly, there was a very familiar pang: the self-pity that came whenever things weren’t going my way. Now, if there’s ever a moment to feel sorry for yourself ...