@moodyblue83
I think shame and guilt are two different things.

When I was in a day hospital program a number of years ago I had additional counselling for addiction by an addictions specialist he say guilr is saying "'I did something bad" while shame is saying "I am bad".


I can feel guilt over something I did but I can recognize that I can apologize of do something else to make amends for it and so move on, whereas shame is a deeper sense that I am responsible for something bad that happened, often to me, but it's because I'm inherently flawed and so there's nothing I can change. Or at least that's how I see the two. Hope that makes sense.