#self-slander

• To self-slander — To intentionally and falsely attribute to oneself blameworthy acts, imaginary defects, or illegal actions with the purpose of self-discrediting, protecting another person, or due to psychological disorders of self-punishment.
• Self-slandered — Having defamed oneself; subjected to an intentional process of discrediting through one's own false and derogatory statements. In clinical terminology, it describes the moral status or psychological state of a subject who assumed fictitious guilt.
• Self-slander — The act or practice of slandering oneself; intentional defamation or denigration of one's own reputation through false statements or conscious exaggerations of flaws. In behavioral analysis, the phenomenon is often associated with faulty psychological defense mechanisms.
• Self-slandering — The act of slandering oneself and its result; the dynamic process through which a person formulates and spreads false or derogatory accusations against themselves. The term emphasizes the ongoing activity of self-discrediting.