Let me tell you something about GUILT.

Guilt is misdirected anger.

YEP, its misdirected anger!

Its anger directed at YOURSELF!

.... why?

You're mad at the way someone reacts to something you did!

OK - you can't change how someone reacted to what you did.
So, you feel mad at yourself for whatever you did.

You stir it around in your head over and over wondering what you did or should have done or whatever!

You become angry at yourself for having "caused" how that person felt.
And that anger comes in the form of GUILT!

You think maybe you shouldn't have acted the way you did... because of how that person reacted.

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THIS is what the depression demon does... the demon, when its inside of you, bashes down your self-esteem in a way that you can't rationalize the fact that you did nothing wrong.



We can't help how people react to things.

All we can change is ourselves.