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Old Oct 27, 2014, 10:11 PM
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Originally Posted by zinco14532323 View Post
I was taught that guilt is healthy. It motivates you to do something about a behavior. Shame is when you internalize it and think you are a bad person because of it. Not healthy. If the guilt got you out if bed maybe that's good. If you think you are a horrible person for spending so much time in bed than not so good.

If you are severely depressed a lot of things you just can't help and have to cut yourself some slack. Acceptance and self foregiveness.

I often have to just let myself be depressed with the symptoms that go with it and accept myself as I am. While at the same time I am doing what I can to treat it. All kinds of treatment but often the treatment doesn't work.

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Thank you for responding. I think it is the shame side that I need to work on more so than the guilt. Looking back at today, I don't think there's much I would have been able to do because of feeling so depressed, it's better I did just stay in bed and ride out the bad feelings.
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