Illness and guilt together form a terrible combo that affects people, so in addition to dealing with health problems, both physical and psychological, they must endure the fact that they are sick.
They ask questions like, “Why did this happen to me right away?Am I going to be strong enough? This occupies the minds of those affected causing emotional problems. It’s also common to believe they have the disease because they’re weak. “.
- Guilt is a particular form of fear.
- If this fear has been cultivated since childhood.
- It can block our emotional development.
- Causing health damage.
- Guilt.
- Self-invalidation and feeling of inadequation live in people who blame themselves for their illnesses.
Guilt is often an unconscious action that conditions our lives and makes us live situations of suffering, underlies self-destructive behaviors, sudden and unexplained failures, loss of valuable relationships and sources of work and accomplishments, and if the person suffers from a disease, everything can get worse.
“Of ninety diseases, fifty are caused by guilt and forty by ignorance. ” – Paolo Mantegazza-
If there are diseases that are primarily related to guilt, they are mental disorders, they do not receive the understanding and support that people with physical problems, such as cancer or multiple sclerosis, receive.
Mental disorders, like other diseases, are not a choice of people, in addition to the suffering and misunderstanding of a large part of the population, there is also fear and contempt for others, unfortunately many are unable to understand what is going on.
Psychological pain and emotional pain are less dramatic than physical pain, but are more common and harder to bear. You have to understand that people with mental disorders are not monsters.
Psychiatric stigma is perhaps the most important factor that negatively influences therapeutic research and the rehabilitation process, as it interferes with access to treatment and compliance with medical prescriptions, making it difficult to effectively reintegration and return to normal life.
In addition, stigma and social exclusion contribute significantly to individual suffering, which can worsen disease progression and prognosis.
On the one hand, all of this is done as an individual attribute that binds the person with mental disorders to certain undesirable characteristics or negative stereotypes; on the other hand, as a product built socially by the granting of stereotypes and rejection by the group or society. in general.
“Mental health needs a lot of attention. Is this a great taboo that needs to be confronted and resolved?. – Adam Ant-
How can a person feel guilty about being sick?How can a person with cancer feel guilty about not being able to support treatment?These are hard questions to answer. However, the explanation may lie in the fact that, in situations of high emotional content, emotions are more persuasive than logic.
Sometimes these feelings may be justified, such as the relationship between lung cancer and smoking, but on many other occasions what happens is an excessive attempt to control ourselves and everything around us, in these cases we can even be victims of the distortion of false control, which makes us feel responsible for problems that , in fact, they are not in our hands.
People who experience this type of distortion believe themselves responsible for everything and everyone, so they stress when something happens that they cannot control, wrongly assuming that responsibility, so these people’s reasoning is affected, because they feel responsible and guilty of their illnesses, or not being able to fight them.
“Feelings of guilt are very repetitive; are so repeated in the human mind that there comes a time when we get rid of them. -Arthur Miller-
As we have seen, some illnesses and guilt often go hand in hand, especially in the field of mental disorders, so addressing the associated stigma should be one of the top priorities of health experts and those affected.