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The price of keeping secrets

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Heaviest Cost of Keeping Secrets

Shame is this global negative valuation of yourself. It's really hard to just not feel ashamed and just sort of ignore that. If shame is a negative evaluation of the self, if you can just direct that negative evaluation to the behavior in question, that's what we call guilt. And so rather than thinking yourself as a bad person, you can say, i did something bad.

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