Posted by Mr Cushing on December 30, 2002, at 11:51:21
In reply to Guilt, Guilty, Guilt, Guilty, Guilt, etc., etc. , posted by Miller on December 30, 2002, at 9:40:23
I've been through this to a certain extent myself in my lifetime. I've done so many bad deeds in my lifetime that I've probably forgotten more than half of them. So I would highly recommend many of the above suggestions that have been mentioned already. Therapy to get your thoughts untangled. Possibly an SSRI so that you no longer sink to such painful depths. But one of the things that I find that really helps me to forget some of the bad things I've done, when I'm stable and actually feeling pretty "normal", is by doing something good for somebody. After all, the world is built around good and evil forces, and if you do enough of both of them, don't they sort of cancel each other out?I found that that really helped me out, but furthermore, I suggested this same idea to a friend of mine that is going to trial right now for manslaughter with a few buddies. Things got completely out of hand one night with them and the end result was that somebody died. He felt so horrible about this that I suggested to him why not try to do as many good things as possible to try to overcome the guilt of some of the bad. So now he spends a lot of his time helping out others, volunteering at battered women's shelters, helping out the disabled students at his school, helping out at the hospitals, giving blood, etc. He said that this has actually made him feel like a much better person and has let him let go of a lot of the guilt that he felt after that night.
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