How should I deal with feelings of shame during depression?

You can learn to transform your shame into a meaningful message to you. Shame shows you where you are called to challenge your current definitions of normality. You can learn to translate shame into an indicator telling you to push past your current limitations imposed by your need for conformity.

In creating your own original personal atmosphere, it is predictable that at times you will dare to challenge your expectations rather than conform to them. Shame means you have arrived at the boundary separating where you feel comfortable and where you are meant to go. Shame calls you to expand your sense of the allowable -- and maybe even to take others with you.

However, there is one important exception to this advice: if you have been a victim of sexual, emotional, or physical abuse, then you may need treatment for trauma. In that case, your symptoms of depression may actually be related to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). If you have suffered a traumatic event and may have PTSD, it is important not to confuse this disorder with a major depression.

The more severe the trauma, the more urgent is your need for professional support to help you work through your major symptoms. In cases other than victimization, shame is a signal for you to push past where you are and start moving toward where you are meant to go. If you avoid confronting your shame you may end up failing to create the one-of-a-kind personal atmosphere that you are meant to have.

Shame is an invitation, calling you away from the safe and secure.

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