self-despair

She returned to the farm and carried for a year the mood of her self-despair.

For self-criticism, self-despair and loss of insight to what the future may hold.

It was a break-up record about broken hearts and wallowing in pity and self-despair.

More often they have the sting of real self-despair: he's akin, he realizes, to an alcoholic who "punishes himself by drinking more."

All within that brief sound: incredulity and self-despair that she was giving credence to the babbling of a lunatic.

Inwardly hating the cruelty he is forced to perform for his new Queen, he thus harbours deep feelings of self-loathing and self-despair.

I believe that never did a soul throw up its hands in self-despair, and cry, "Lord, I yield," but what faith became easy to it before long.

The demons S'ym and N'astirh corrupt Madelyne's feelings of self-despair, transforming her into the Goblin Queen.