Credits: "Climbing Out Of Depression" by Sue Atkinson 2005 (Lion Books) Pages 132 - 133 - Section 24 - Managing Depression.Burying guilt when you are depressed is like trying to bury an angry lion in a child's sandpit.
This part of it can be read on Google Books as a free preview, without you having to buy the whole book.
Is anyone else interested in discussing this analogy?
I think that we need to make a clear distinction here between needed, deserved guilt (where you have actually done something wrong or bad) and needless, undeserved guilt (where you are completely innocent of doing any wrong).
Although the psychologically damaging effects of both types of guilt to a person's long term emotional health, are effectively the same.
Anyone?
EoT :smt115