Broken
What is Broken?
Feeling damaged in a way that can't be fixed. As if you came incomplete.
When you might feel broken
Broken is a specific form of i-am-bad, which itself is a type of worthlessness. You might experience this feeling in situations where worthlessness is present, particularly when the circumstances align with the nuances that define broken.
Emotional Hierarchy
Explore Broken on the Interactive Wheel
Use our free interactive feeling wheel to explore broken and discover related emotions.
Open Shame & Guilt WheelRelated Emotions
A core belief that something is fundamentally wrong with you. Not what you did —...
A pervasive sense of not being as whole, good, or whole as others seem to be....
Convinced your competence or success is accidental. That you've fooled people an...
Chronic sense of inadequacy. Achievements don't touch this belief — it runs deep...
Performing a version of yourself that doesn't match how you feel inside....
Believing that love, care, or good things are not meant for you specifically....