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“Shame isn’t a creature of the here and now. It’s a tether to old mistakes, failed expectations, and predicted futures full of further disappointment. Shame is one way our human affinity for narrative becomes weaponized against us. With shame, we aren’t just a character in a cohesive storyline, we are the villain. The moral lesson of the tale centers on ourselves as examples of wrongdoing.”
— 18 hours, 3 min ago
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Madeline
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“Depression and shame force us to practice and rehearse powerlessness until it feels like a defining feature of who we are.”
— 17 hours, 58 min ago
Madeline
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“It’s difficult to pursue healing when you are certain you don’t deserve it or when you feel confident that all of your sadness is a reasonable response to a broken life, a flawed self, and a malicious world. What do I need to heal from? Being realistic? Paying attention?”
Shame as a valuable tool for depression to continue in the mind/masquerade behind “reality”
— 17 hours, 59 min ago
Shame as a valuable tool for depression to continue in the mind/masquerade behind “reality”
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“I entered a period in which the world had stopped being a source of wonder. The world was something to fend off; nature was a ghost in the attic, a memory of childhood. It wouldn’t pay my bills or quiet my persistent urge to end my life. A heron was a half remembered song from a dead age.”
— Oct 15, 2026 01:09PM