Shame: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
The toxic emotion that makes illness even more difficult
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8 min readMay 3, 2024
The pain and shame of depression
For most of my adult life, I have wrestled with recurrent, wretched mood disorders and agitation. I was a hard-driving, successful clinical psychologist and professor. I had a young daughter I adored, and a long term, happy…