Saturday, March 8, 2014

Guilt




I think that when we feel guilt that we should respect that feeling. By respectecting those feelings that no matter how hard we try, will truly make us examine ourselves and what we truly think is right from wrong. Feeling guilt I will admit is not a pleasant feeling, but it's not supposed to be either.  Research shows that we learn about guilt at the age of 3 ,and that is when be begin to understand the consequences of our actions.   If we colored on the walls there will be consequences, so we tried not to do it again to avoid the same outcome. If we did decide to color on the walls, knowing that it could disappoint others, it might cause up to feel ashamed of ourselves.Having a “guilty conscience” inside has been known for us  to grow up and become better citizens and make better decisions  Guilt if kept in long enough can come out in other forms of destructive behaviors. Individuals with eating disorders tend to have a large amount of guilt inside of them

The  guilt that is stuffed inside of us based off of what we consume, what has happened in our past, and what other trauma's that may have occuried in our life. Many of us who suffer with eating disorders tend to become very resistant to treatment out of fear .  Guilt can and will drives us all to become someone we are not.  When you begin therapy you will undersand that you don’t have to feel guilty for the situations that happened in your life.  In turn it will ease the unhealthy behaviors that are driven by obsession, It's a huge experience to realize how much of your time and effort that you have invested in your false beliefs. It's then that you being to get back in touch with the internal beliefs. When you start your healthy behaviors the guilt seems to simply go away. You can get back in touch with yourself and begin to sleep much better at night, and feel that you can finally start to breathe again.  If you take Ed completely out of your life for good the only guilt you will begin to feel is why you didn't do it sooner.


“She let go of all the shame and guilt. Seeing that she couldn't have become who she was without those past mistakes. It was a time to honor them and thank them, and know that they were some of the best parts of her" ~Terri St. Cloud


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