self-accusation

Among those ideals: preventing people from being tortured into confessing or being shoehorned into a “cruel trilemma of self-accusation, perjury or contempt” of court.

He tended to mask his gay self through self-accusation and self-condemnation.

“In some moods, I feel that this is just a moment of despair, and people are trying to find significance even if it only comes from self-accusation,” he told me.

I could hold thoughts in my head besides anger and self-accusation.

“I’m sure I must’ve used the term ironically, a sort of self-accusation,” he ponders.