withdrew from family and friends. Brooding over his “bad luck,” he spiraled deeper and deeper into the pit of self-pity. • A truck ran a red light, crushing Fred’s Honda Civic and breaking his back. The accident put him out of work for three months. He lived in chronic pain. “Why me?” he angrily wondered. He envied healthy people and became more and more depressed. What is self-pity? How can we define it? What does it look like? The roots of self-pity are ‘pride-in-action’. It is the propensity