Self Punishment

After I overeat, self-punishment restricting food intake and/or purging, vomiting, or over-exercising is the only thing that makes me feel better. ❋ Jean Fain (2011)

Meanwhile, Rose, who at one point complains that she's not good at anything, is shown to have been really good at the kind of self-sacrifice that is really self-punishment. ❋ Unknown (2009)

KH: Most of us see food as a pleasure and a necessity to life, so why do so many people use eating as a form of self-punishment? ❋ Kristen Houghton (2011)

So as I think about it, winter is shaping up to be pretty busy -- not even counting any trips or ice fishing or perhaps mid-winter steelheading should I suddenly have a desire for self-punishment. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Addiction is certainly an expression of suffering and the need for amelioration, but it’s also of course a manner of self-indulgence in the form of self-punishment, which is what all the players are engaged in. ❋ Unknown (2010)

People were taught a piety of intense fear of hell and of self-punishment as a way to avoid it. ❋ Rita Nakashima Brock (2011)

No. And worry, being a form of self-punishment, is just as useless. ❋ Unknown (2010)

  It is the largest self-punishment rite in the Western world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I want neither self-punishment nor self-aggrandizement. ❋ Unknown (2010)