Humiliation is the intensely painful feeling that we've been unjustly degraded, ridiculed, or put down and that our identity has been demeaned or devalued.

• Brene Brown Atlas of the Heart p. 147

Unjustifed mistreatment that violates one's dignity and diminishes one's sense of worth as a human being. Linda hartling Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies.

Humiliation is most similar to shame in that we feel fundamentally flawed. But the most relevant distriction is that humilation arises because someone else pointed out oru flaws, and we don't feel we deserved it. The entire key to understanding humilation is that whenit happens ot us, it feels unjust.

Brene Brown Atlas of the Heart p. 142

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