Are you ever free from feeling guilty?

Question

In all of your time dealing with life,have you stop
fealing guilty about mistakes you made.describe
brifley,under 500 words.

Answer 1

Hi. The answer to your question is, "yes." You can remove the thoughts that cause you to feel guilt, legitimately.

Cognitive distortions play into your continuing to play the guilt card. Even if you've done something in the past that you feel you shouldn't have (or of omission) your distorted thinking is what keeps that thought of guilt, those feelings from allowing you to move on and have a guilt free life.

You can find a short list of the 10 common cognitive distortions at the top of the Psychotherapy Forum in the link below. Reframing the thinking around the situations that cause you to feel guilt will be key. Good wishes!

Answer 2

If it is really the social interaction that you are worried about, check out local Mothers' Day Out programs. These are typically a few hours a day for a day or two per week where your kiddo can go and play with other kiddos. You can spend that time doing whatever else you want/need to do, such as a hair appt., grocery shopping, whatever! This way, your child gets to interact and you get a short break! Also, you can always join a playgroup so your kiddo gets interaction. As for the money situation, day care is VERY expensive. I know more people than not who would spend the entire second income on daycare anyway and then not even have the benefit of the extra time with the kiddos. Don't feel guilty girl! There are happy mediums out there. :)

Answer 3

I think that as u grow older and wiser u begin to deal with situations differently. So u are able to let go of the past and move forward in everyday life. If u dwell on the past u seem to get left behind in it. If u keep making the same mistakes then it's obvious that u never learned from your mistakes in the past and the guilt will haunt u for a long time.

Answer 4

I am free of guilty feelings. I have over 50 years of failures, mistakes and wrong doings; that has served as a quality education. There are three basic reasons that I don’t suffer from guilt feelings or a guilt complex.

I decided fairly early in life that I would live my life in earnest pursuit of doing the right thing so I would not spend my time looking over my shoulder for any demons from my past stalking me. I set my values and practice them more so than preach them. I decided to treat people the way I would like to be treated. To do this was not as easy as it might sound and I have messed it up along the way, but I stopped each time to clean up the mess. I had seen too many people caught up in feelings of regret and guilt; and I really didn’t want to go there.

I also decided to be honest, particularly with myself. To do this has often been humbling, painful and fearful. The reward, however, is great. I feel I have gained the strength of character and courage to do the right thing. It gives me power over envy, fear, hate, guilt, anger and disappointment. It gives me the power to feel empathy, love, and pleasure and to accomplish wonderful things in life.

I forgive others because I have learned to forgive myself. The power of forgiveness gives me the power to look clearly at things that have gone wrong, my mistakes and failures, and to address them objectively. When I have been wronged, it gives me the power to disengage the feelings of revenge and retaliation.

I am free of guilty feelings, but this does not mean that I am an angel and that I have done no wrong or claim that I walk the path of righteousness. It means I can look at myself and deal with it. I practice forgiveness. I chose to have the company of integrity in my life. Should I chance to look over my shoulder I do not expect to find any demons stalking me from my past. If I do see a demon from my past then I will stop, draw my sword and deal with it then and there.

Answer 5

Are you sure this is an opinion or psychology question and not asking us to write the essay set as homework for you in your course?? I guess it is the latter, as you even come up with a word limit, sweetheart, but you didn´t care enough to even bother spellchecking (fealing, brifley...).

Feeling guilty has to do with moral standards and thoughts about what is right and wrong, which you set up for yourself or which have been set up by the society you live in, laws, family expectations and values, religion etc.

Do the rest of your homework yourself.

Answer 6

I have found that if I tell someone I trust completely all of my past indescetions, they no longer own me. When it doesnt hurt or harm someone, I come clean and apoligize as soon as I feel Ive done something that I cant live with. As far as forgiveness for myself, I figure out where the guilt is coming from; is it fear based or what, and then I go from there. Its all about being honest with myself and others.

Answer 7

Phillip, don't YOU feel guilty about using Yahoo Answers to cop an essay question for school?

Answer 8

I Never feel guilty

Answer 9

Guilt is only spending to much time in the past, and not seeing the lessons as learned!

Answer 10

Yes.