Found a website that offered twenty questions to challenge negative thinking. This one, in particular, rang true for me:
"Are you condemning yourself as a person on the basis of a single event?"
Umm, yes, absolutely.
Also, if 100 people say Cory's death was not my fault, but one person says it was, I latch immediately and fiercely to the one person's opinion. Outwardly, I am indignant and will verbally refute the remark, but on the inside that no one else sees, my Guilt opens her scrawny, hungry arms and beckons that judgment into the fold. Guilt must feed.
One persons hateful opinion should not fuel any guilt.
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