ADDRESSING GUILT AND SHAME - The Ferentz Institute

have a past or present history of trauma, abuse, or neglect. I often say trauma survivors go through life with their own personal DSM diagnoses: bad, damaged, dirty, broken, weird, abnormal, and crazy. All of those descriptors fuel, exacerbate, and sustain shame. It is very deeply embedded in their fundamental sense of self.

  Trauma, Diagnoses, Dsm diagnoses