personal hell

Frequency: 7.53.9 per million words

A private, internal state of suffering or misery.

Categories:

Examples (10)

  • She'd been going through her own personal hell over the last month.
  • The last few years have been a personal hell for the entire family.
  • For someone with severe social anxiety, that party was a personal hell.
  • He descended into a personal hell of addiction that took years to overcome.
  • The bitter divorce proceedings turned her life into a personal hell.
  • Trapped in a job he despised, every working day felt like a personal hell.
  • Unresolved guilt can create a personal hell that is difficult to escape.
  • After the scandal broke, the celebrity's life became a personal hell.
  • She managed to survive the personal hell of deep depression with therapy.
  • Waiting for the medical diagnosis was a kind of personal hell for him.