The powerlessness of those humiliated can create a kind of learned helplessness that turns to anger as if there is nowhere to turn. The person may want to run, feel anxiety, a swelling anger that depletes energy, and that can lead, in the long-run, to post-traumatic stress.
Suffering severe humiliation has been shown empirically to plunge individuals into major depressions, suicidal states, and severe anxiety states, including ones characteristic of posttraumatic stress disorder.
We may react with anger, fantasies of revenge, sadism, delinquency, or terrorism, among others. We may also internalize the trauma, leading to fear and anxiety, flashbacks, nightmares, sleeplessness, suspicion and paranoia, social isolation, apathy, depression, and suicidal ideation.
Humiliation can destroy one's self esteem and lead to mood disorders over time, including depression and PTSD.
The powerlessness of those humiliated can create a kind of learned helplessness that turns to anger as if there is nowhere to turn. The person may want to run, feel anxiety, a swelling anger that depletes energy, and that can lead, in the long-run, to post-traumatic stress.
Katagelophobia is the fear of embarrassment taken to a disordered extreme. The fear of being embarrassed or feeling embarrassed in front of others is so severe that individuals cease to be able to chase a life of the quality they desire. Life can become incredibly small, centered on fear and anxiety.
You feel humiliated when someone deliberately does something that makes you feel inferior or look bad in the eyes of others. For example, when someone physically bullies you, when someone publicly makes a belittling remark about you, or when someone spreads bad rumors behind your back.
Being laughed at, mocked, teased, ridiculed, given a dirty look, spit on, or made to look stupid or foolish. Being the victim of a practical joke, prank, or confidence scheme. False accusation or insinuation, Public shame, disrespect, or being dis'ed, downgraded, defeated, or slighted.
Most people with social phobia have a strong fear of being humiliated or embarrassed in front of other people.
It is an emotion felt by a person whose social status, either by force or willingly, has just decreased. It can be brought about through intimidation, physical or mental mistreatment or trickery, or by embarrassment if a person is revealed to have committed a socially or legally unacceptable act.
Recovering from humiliation is not easy but not impossible. You don't have to make a big deal out of your humiliation. Everyone goes through it. If feeling ashamed is not a big deal, then ask yourself why you feel that way?
These common defensive reactions to shame are, as Taylor notes, “consistent with many of the symptoms and comorbidities of PTSD” and post-trauma states, including anger, violence, addiction, isolation, feelings of hopelessness and helplessness which can progress to depression and even suicide ideation (Taylor, 2015).
Shaming may make children feel like they cannot change. Rather than motivating them, it may make them feel like they aren't capable. And as a corollary and consequence… Shaming may make children feel bad about themselves.
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Humiliation and fear are sources of anger. Being criticized by a romantic partner, boss or parent in front of others can give rise to rage. Fear too, can have the same effect; when the fight or flight response is triggered, and if the choice is made to fight, anger is evolutionarily very helpful.
Psychological or emotional abuse
It can involve both verbal and non-verbal abuse which can scare, humiliate and isolate a person. This may include: threats. humiliation or ridicule.
Rejection trauma results from growing up in homes where we were rejected and often considered worthless and a waste of our parent's time. Perhaps we were told we were worthless, or our parents maltreated us using us for their own pleasure. The result of having no support and being rejected… February 14, 2022.
From Freyd (2008): Betrayal trauma occurs when the people or institutions on which a person depends for survival significantly violate that person' s trust or well-being: Childhood physical, emotional, or sexual abuse perpetrated by a caregiver are examples of betrayal trauma.
When any current situation reminds you of any of those details hanging out in the capsule—either consciously or subconsciously—the old trauma gets “poked,” or reactivated. This is how we get triggered. Being triggered can bring up flashes of those memories, including images, feelings, and any sensory stimuli.
The researchers found that the feeling of humiliation caused much faster and more intense brain activity than joy. It was more negative than anger, and areas linked to pain were activated. Although compliments aroused joy, the feeling of humiliation was much more intense than that pleasant emotion.
n. a feeling of shame as a result of being disgraced or deprecated. The feeling sometimes leads to severe depression and deterioration of the individual's sense of self-esteem.