When a person survives a traumatic incident in which others died, especially loved ones, it’s common to feel guilty for living. Survivor guilt can be an immediate response to a tragedy, and the ...

This article is a sequel to the post “To The Non-Conforming Asian Women.”. The pressure to conform to a particular way of being, looking and behaving is paramount in conformist cultures. In ...

As a survivor, I always rejoiced in living my life to the fullest with no guilt. Until one of my friends who had stood by me so strongly in my fight, lost her fight five years after my remission. She ...

Chronic Pain and Guilt. Many people living with chronic pain experience pain-related guilt.Why? Let us look at the research. To synthesize the available evidence on the role of guilt in pain ...

But we are not living with guilt today. Today the regret does not win. Last week we tried a new brand of pasta sauce that we did not like, so the leftovers went into the fridge.

Now he is living with survivor's guilt. His mom recently shared a drawing he made that shows what that looks like for a child. A picture Daniel drew for his cousin, Ellie.

Survivor’s guilt is an expression of grief and loss, and should be treated as such. For some, the guilt is just one of many complex feelings following a traumatic death, and is an expression of ...