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The Importance of Guilt and Shame
After years of sailing around the world, how could Roderick have let himself slip up like this? Well, guilt, it turns out, is a very, very real thing. In a documentary about this case, forensic psychologist Dr. Vincent Egan says that people find it hard to live with guilt and shame inside them. It's a very corrosive emotion. People want to unburden themselves by disclosing what they've done to someone when they've done something bad. I do that. I can't help myself. I just bury it. Yeah, no, I need to confess in front of the eyes of God. And the donkey. After Nan called the police with her little revelation,