Feelings of guilt can be very intense and really traumatic. It is especially hard to experience wine in childhood. When this feeling is not lived through and is not released, it is forced into the depths of the psyche. From there, guilt negatively affects the human condition, provoking psychosomatic diseases.
Wine is included in the basic set of emotions that are common to all people. The feeling of guilt at least once covered, perhaps, every person. This could have happened in childhood or already in adulthood. Naturally vulnerable, sensitive individuals can experience this emotion more acutely. However, people who have pronounced leadership qualities, who are used to taking responsibility, who strive to do everything on their own, can also feel guilty about it. This feeling is often at the root of many psychosomatic illnesses.
Formation of pathological feelings of guilt
This is not to say that guilt is an exclusively negative state. Despite the fact that it can be really hard and difficult to experience emotion, it is impossible to be aware of your actions without guilt. This emotion can become part of a bitter experience, and, as you know, people learn from mistakes. Another thing is that in situations where a person does not know how to let go of emotions, does not understand how one can survive this or that traumatic situation, guilt becomes a destructive feeling. Pushing guilt deep into the psyche, a person unconsciously harms himself. An unlived sensation, not letting go of an emotion begin to "gnaw" from the inside, to influence the character, mood and physiological state.
Feelings of guilt in very, very rare cases act independently. Often, guilt works in tandem with fear, shame, hyperresponsibility, perfectionism. Because of such an internal tandem, psychosomatics can become an eternal companion of a person, poisoning and complicating life.
A person can feel guilty of something in front of himself or his immediate environment, in front of his family or work colleagues. There may be a feeling of guilt in front of a stranger, with whom there was, for example, a certain conflict. It often happens that a person is strangled by wine for no specific reason. For example, as a child, a person witnessed a quarrel between parents. At that moment he wanted to do something, somehow influence the situation, but he could not. In the child's mind, the idea is fixed that it is he - the child - who is to blame for the fact that the parents quarreled, that the father (or mother) left home, etc. In adulthood, a person, recalling this story, may realize that he is not guilty in such a combination of circumstances. However, at an unconscious level, his inner child is not ready to come to terms with such a conclusion, continues to insist on his own.
Often it is the parents, grandparents, and relatives who become those people who, unconsciously and not on purpose, cultivate a destructive, pathological feeling in a child. As a joke or for the purpose of education / punishment, by accusing the child of something, adults feed shame and fear. Shame - for actions that the child might not have done or for which he was not to blame. Fear - for the whole situation, the child begins to fear the repetition of history. Some features and styles of upbringing in the family can also negatively affect the child's psyche and fix the state of the eternally guilty person in the subconscious. This condition is especially acute in children from large families, where it is customary to take sisters and brothers as an example.
The guilt that has arisen in the context of a psycho-traumatic situation becomes pathological. If the circumstances in which the event happened are repeated in a person's life, then fear and guilt are rapidly growing.
An unconscious destructive feeling of guilt is characteristic of those individuals who seek to control everything and everyone, who are ready to take responsibility not only for themselves and their actions, but also for the people around them, for events to which they have no direct or indirect relationship. This trait also often originates from childhood. By instilling responsibility and independence in a child, under certain conditions it is possible to ensure that the child will constantly feel guilty for something or something.
Typical psychosomatic illnesses
Being constantly inside a person, an unconscious but pathological feeling of guilt provokes phantom pains. Soreness can occur anywhere on the body, inside any organ. The pain can be weak or strong, wandering or fixed in several areas at once.
Guilt becomes the basis for the formation of various neuroses; for children, nocturnal enuresis can be especially typical. The same feeling underlies a number of borderline mental states, for example, various forms of depression and eating disorders are often provoked by pathological guilt. OCD and obsessive-compulsive disorder in adolescence or adulthood are also often based on guilt and associated conditions (fear, shame).
Specific examples of diseases caused by, among other things, feelings of guilt:
- insomnia;
- gynecological diseases, in general diseases of the genitourinary system;
- infertility;
- impotence;
- back and neck diseases;
- headaches, migraines;
- hormonal disorders, endocrine pathologies;
- herpes;
- AIDS;
- poorly healing wounds, cuts and injuries of a different nature;
- phlebitis;
- pathology of the cardiovascular system.
