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I understand entirely. Sensitivity to guilt and shame is a vulnerability that people can exploit, even without realizing it.

There’s a book you might find helpful, Shame & Guilt: Masters of Disguise

> A few common characteristics of adults shamed in childhood:

> You may suffer extreme shyness, embarrassment and feelings of being inferior to others. You don’t believe you make mistakes, you believe you are a mistake. You feel controlled from the outside and from within. You feel that normal spontaneous expression is blocked.You may suffer from debilitating guilt; you apologize constantly. You have little sense of emotional boundaries; you feel constantly violated by others; you frequently build false boundaries.

> If you see yourself in any of these characteristics, you can learn how shame keeps you from being the person you were born to be and how to change that. Shame And Guilt describes how debilitating shame is created and fostered in childhood and how it manifests itself in adulthood and in intimate relationships. Through the use of myths and fairytales to portray different shaming environments, Dr. Middelton-Moz allows you to reach the shamed child within you and to add clarity to what could be difficult concepts.

If you don’t mind me asking you to expand, can you say a little more about Shame?

<em>Shame &amp; Guilt: Masters of Disguise</em> and <em>The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self</em> are books that I’ve considered that I should read but haven’t ‘cause I have no idea what the fuck would come tumbling out if I pop that cork.

To be fair, that’s weighed against my theory that being aware of a problem means you notice and feel it, connect it to all sorts of bedrock foundations of your life, decisions you’ve made and pain you caused or denied feeling.

Put another way, when you learn your maladaptive coping mechanisms are maladaptive, they no longer help you cope, and that shit suuucks.

Thumbing through How To Overcome Your Childhood has helped some, for my rockin dudes out there who are somehow bored of crushing jägerbombs, smashing 7’s, and punching drywall. You can only enlist in the Army so many times eh?