How do you deal with shame? Is it an all encompassing sort of thing or about very specific things?

The article was interesting. I have come across this theory without recognizing it as that. One thing that resonated is that shame can be found in infants who do not have self-esteem problems because they do not yet have a sense of self.

The way I experience shame is not really connected to self-esteem because my self-esteem is reasonable intact. It is more in this sense of being exposed and feeling vulnerable. I feel like hiding, which the article describes as withdrawal or renunciation. But the article gives another reason for its origin when most of what I have encountered is that it is connected to trauma.

While that connection used to make sense to me, it is not currently making sense so maybe someone who gets it can say something.