Good healthy guilt vs snivelling self pity

Life would have been bliss when I was a kid if Mother had subscribed to the now fashionable notion that making another person feel “guilty” is the greatest crime a human being can commit.

But mother belonged to what she called “The Pull Yourself Together School of Psychiatry.” It espoused a straight and uncomplicated philosophy: . . . → Read More: Good healthy guilt vs snivelling self pity