"Guilt feelings" refers to the emotions or sense of regret and responsibility that someone experiences when they believe they have done something wrong or harmful.
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The amount
of guilt we feel if our baby doesn't automatically sleep through the night!
Although being your own boss has many benefits, I struggle with
guilt feelings when I am not working, after all no work equals no pay.
The pastor is not only the most accessible professional person to many people, but he is also the one to whom many turn for help
with guilt feelings.
This marketing device also taps into the residual
guilt felt by a person receiving something for nothing.
On one level he feels
overwhelming guilt feelings about his harming of them; on another level (often unconscious) his drinking may be a way of expressing hostility and resentment toward them.
The religious discussion of guilt may prevent a person from taking a first step toward dealing with his
personal guilt feelings.
Hidden guilt feelings are brought into consciousness by being in the setting which represents the highest ideals of one's group.
Since women very often feel guilty when they begin to assert themselves and to make demands in their own behalf, some opportunity to deal with
such guilt feelings is appropriate.
Of course, people know that
guilt feels unpleasant and is sometimes associated with feelings of tension and regret.
The emphasis on the destructive effects
of guilt feelings and anxiety seems to point the church away from stressing negative criticism.
For example, if one partner has
guilt feelings about oral sex play, the Christian response of the other will be to honor the partner until they adjust their feelings.
But as a general pattern this seems to me a product of romanticism, taking with insufficient seriousness the «materialism of Christianity,» as William Temple called it, and quite likely to produce the wrong kind of
guilt feelings in competent young people who are in or who are considering the ministry — as if this activity were not worthy of economic support.
We may admit that
most guilt feelings which disturb the deeper level of the soul are misplaced, that they are a holdover in mature life from experiences in childhood which are irrelevant to the moral experience of the adult.
First, they
alleviate guilt feelings in the audience by consistent reference to the Devil: «Jesus washes away all sins and the Devil is responsible for all backsliding.»
In some cases, this may
arouse guilt feelings which block the catharsis of anger, jealousy, and sexual or destructive fantasies.
If
guilt feelings do not respond to the normal process of confession - reconciliation it may be because they are neurotic (or irrational) feelings (see Chap.
Finally, another aspiring writer had this to say «I'm a sponsored writer and I can't describe the amount of
guilt I feel almost everyday for not having a «real job».
There are generalized suspicion, hostility, resentment, frustration, dejection, and
strong guilt feelings directed specifically toward some family member... and considerable confusion about her own sex role....
Couples who have engaged in premarital intercourse, sometimes
find guilt feelings plaguing them in marriage.
Their sexual maturing and dating activities stir up old, unresolved conflicts and
guilt feelings within the parents, which are projected onto the marriage relationship.
In the pastor's second response, he again misses the alcoholic's - desperate plea for help, focusing instead on B.'s
guilt feelings related to the broken promise.
While they then have
specific guilt feelings with respect to their conscience, they have only unspecific anxiety with regard to their image of God.
Because of our culture's programming of the sexes, men are usually more able than women to be assertive without
triggering guilt feelings.
People project their inner troubles on society or the universe; they transfer their
own guilt feelings into accusations of other people.
«Enabling the family to understand why their baby is ill can help to assuage the almost
universal guilt felt by parents that they did something wrong to cause their baby's illness,» writes Dr. Sarah Bowdin, Clinical and Metabolic Genetics, Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, Ontario, in a related commentary.
So unlike the normal
mild guilt I feel over most clothing purchases (I shouldn't do that to myself but I don't usually need new pieces), I'm feeling very happy about buying this skirt and these sandals.
In addition to the
unreasonable guilt she feels about calling 911, it is now compounded with knowing her mother had to give up her son because she was incarcerated.
It saddens me so much to think that any of the victims of these atrocities would
carry guilt feeling any it was their fault.
Every observant dog owner can see for himself that his dog gets greater satisfaction from the praise rewarding a well - executed command or good behavior than he does from the momentary excitement of disobeying, which is usually followed by the
evident guilt feelings, (ears back and avoiding eye contact), even when he has not been punished.
My
momentary guilt feelings vanished when I drove up to the * mansion * — complete with 20 - foot fountain and full - time nanny.