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Guilt
| The section on guilt from my 1996 book | Most Recent Items April 17 - Guilt traps Feb 6, 2006 - Creation of this page |
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I feel frustrated right now because I am almost sure I wrote something about guilt traps, but I can't find it now. So I just want to say that I think this is a useful term, perhaps more useful than guilt trips, though they are two different things.
A guilt trip is what someone else does to you to make you feel undeserved and unhealthy guilt. (or usually it is someone else, I guess you can learn to do it to yourself.)
A guilt trap is something you fall into or get led into which is hard to get out of. It implies you are really stuck there.
This is brief, but I wanted to write a little something. Otherwise I might feel guilty for not writing it!
Steve Hein
April 17, 2006
Salta,
Argentina