sorry for oneself

adjective[after a verb]2

1. •
   Self-pitying.

   • I never saw a wild thing / sorry for itself. / A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough / without ever having felt sorry for itself. — 1914
2. •
   (informal) In a bedraggled or wretched state.

   • But my scarf has been looking rather sorry for itself since our encounter with the tree. — 2017