Living with chronic pain and addiction generally results in a lack of hope, faith, and trust. You can become so beaten down by the weight of your pain and dependence on opiates that your worldview becomes pessimistic, the majority of your thoughts center on various forms of doom and gloom, and your relationship to others…
Sometimes you may think that you shouldn’t feel the way you do. Feelings are neither good nor bad—they simply are. In the midst of intense negative feelings, whether fear, anger, depression, or whatever form they may take, it can feel as though they will last forever, like they will never end. It promotes emotional balance…
Guilt is an emotion wherein we feel that we’ve made a mistake. It is defined as a feeling of having committed some wrong or failed in an obligation. Shame, on the other hand, is an emotion where the feeling is that we are a mistake. Shame is defined as a painful feeling of humiliation or…