How is shame related to depression?

A common symptom of depression is constant self-recrimination. You may criticize yourself frequently. You may feel ashamed of yourself, like you can never do anything right.

Sometimes you may feel like you want to sink into the earth and hide your face. Shame can be an indicator of your deepest yearnings. Because so many people have had their dreams and hidden aspirations be ridiculed by others, they may internalize a sense of shame about what they really want to do.

In The Secret Message of Shame, the authors write that "paradoxically, then, shame serves as a marker for hidden yearnings. That which you are ashamed of may be exactly that for which you yearn... That means that sometimes instead of hiding in avoidance, you must journey through the desert of shame in order to reach the promised land of your yearnings.

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