Related needs
Feeling: Humiliated
Your face may burn, your chest constrict, and you may wish to disappear. This feeling may arise when you perceive a deep loss of respect or dignity. Anthropologists often note humiliation may have evolved as a social alarm that helps maintain status and cooperation.
Poem reflection
"Vain to fish
with unbaited hook,
the proverb says. I fished that way..."
- Bruce Beasley