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what about guilt?

deleted_user
deleted_user
i have this terrible problem of accepting guilt, for things i know i haven't done.

i've always done this... if something goes missing, or someone gets hurt, i feel like the guilty party, even if i know for sure i didn't do it.

it often gets me in trouble, because if someone asks me if i've done something, i may feel like i have, even if i haven't, so i come off as guilty.

i believe i could never pass a lie detector test.

does anyone else do that?
dobiedots
dobiedots
I have the opposite. I don't usually feel guilty for anything I do. I justify it all.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I seem to only be able to tell the truth, and always feel guilty..
deleted_user
deleted_user
I can find guilt in anything I do. I have taken a lie detector test and have failed it. Confessed my soul and still failed it.

It may be a catholic thing, but I think it is a bipolar thing.
deleted_user
deleted_user
i know what you mean Cam. i feel like that too. i catch myself and i know i didnt do it but for a minute i feel guilty as if i did it. it must be from all the times when i did bad things and i was truly guilty and it's a habit to feel that way. it feels nasty.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I feel like everything is my fault...all the time. I even feel that my husbands infidelity is somehow my fault. Taco Bell gave us the wrong stuff...it's my fault...go figure???
deleted_user
deleted_user
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Learn to point the finger !

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deleted_user
deleted_user
My meds are finally working very well; and I am amazed at how much of the "looking over my shoulder" guilt feelings, anxiety and morbid obsession with myself were simply symptoms of an untreated illness. They have gone away for the most part. I don't really do anything that should cause me to feel that way anyway.
deleted_user
deleted_user
race, what do you take?
deleted_user
deleted_user
I'm very lucky. I was easy to diagnose (BP I w/ severe mania) and easy to medicate. 1800mg lithium with no ill affects and 2mg risperdal, variable dose, as needed. Trazadone for a while to help with sleep. Now symptom free.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I know exactly what you mean. It's weird. I can walk into a store and ask for a pack of cigerettes and act and feel like I'm 15 years old buying with a fake ID. Just an example....
deleted_user
deleted_user
I rarely feel guilty if ever. I have a disorder so oh well. Plus I'm a pretty decent person these days I don't look over my schoulder and I can look at myself in the mirror.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I've been on others: abilify, seroquel, lamictil, antidepressants (before my dr.s knew what was wrong with me). I just had to hang in there with the lithium. At first I rejected it for the "side effects". I just didn't know how to come down.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I randomly think about the lie detector test too! I know I'd fail one even if I was being totally honest.
deleted_user
deleted_user
yes, that's so me. wierd. glad i'm not alone... anyone else i've ever told thinks it is so strange
deleted_user
deleted_user
Yes i feel like that too.Like even on here when someone goes I know someone reported me blah blah blah I start feeling guilty and wondering if everyone thinks I did it.I have never reported anyone and unless under extreme conditions would not.I wouldn't pass a lie detector test either I'd be thinking did I do that?Do they think I did that?LOL
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