[RamblinClementine]

I'm having trouble feeling bad about something I did a long time ago. I know I cannot change the past but my question is, how do you try and let go of things and forgive yourself and move on?

[gayleggg]

Sometimes writing an unsent letter will help relieve the guilt. Journalling in general will help, too.

[SeekerOfLife]

I agree with gayleggg. I have had to make a firm choice to forgive myself. I have guilt issues too.

But, I wonder if there is a true guilt, and a false guilt. Do we sometimes call something guilt when it is actually something else? I figure guilt is what we feel when we have done wrong. Sometimes I feel guilt when I have done nothing wrong.

[RamblinClementine]

I guess guilt is an easy choice when something feels wrong. Like maybe it's just bad in general but putting it on myself is easier than saying someone else did it or no one did it and it's just a matter of circumstance, it's just a ****** one.

[avlady]

You could talk about it with a T, if you can get one you can trust, and also a journal like someone else mentioned, even try to pretend you're writing a book. You can keep track of your good days and bad days in the journal, and you might find certain things that trigger you, and if you're on meds you can keep track of good days and bad days, maybe the meds need to be changed or upped or downed.

[wiltedxdaisy]

I have an issue in my past that I feel a lot of guilt about and wish I could go back and do things differently. For the longest time I could not deal with this, or accept what happened. But as time went by, and I talked about it with people I trusted, journaled about it and thought long and hard about it, I realized that I was being too hard on myself. I made a mistake, but I am human. We all make mistakes. I think the best thing you can do is to learn from what happened, and to use that knowledge to better yourself and your life. I know that from the lesson I learned I am a better person now, and that helps me.