Why would a person feel guilty without reason.

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Like why would a person be guilty for things like existing? Some people say they feel guilty always but how a d why is that possible. I've only felt guilty once because I did something wrong and it had negative consequences. For anyone says I'm a sociopath I'm certainly not one... -_-

For all its logical capabilities, the human brain is really good at making up "reasons" for anything if it feels it needs them.

There's always something to feel guilty for. Value yourself little enough and you'll feel guilty for every breath you draw, since it could have been used instead by someone more deserving of life.

It helps to remember that your parents, and anyone else you depended on to become a viable adult, were already here before you were born and didn't need you for anything.

So does being bullied, learning you're judged an absolutely contemptible p**** by the bullies and most everyone else when you fail to be strong or skilled enough to fight back effectively, and a coward if you try to avoid the fight in any way. After all, if everyone agrees you'd need to have physical, and perhaps also mental, capabilities far exceeding your actual ones and any meagre improvement you might achieve, no matter what you do, before having a chance to be regarded as some vague semblance of a respectable human being, they can't all be wrong, can they? Especially about something that seems instinctual in any healthy human.

You mean like "white guilt"? I've never owned another human being myself, obviously. But my family records very clearly say that my ancestors did and we have a branch of our family who is black. Before the paper trial ended, the other branch seemed to point to that same generation in my branch who owned people. I feel terrible about that. From what the head of the other branch of the family says, most white people don't, and will cover up the fact that their ancestors owned slaves.

I think maybe some people are prone to guilt and others aren't. I don't think it's unhealthy to be a person who doesn't claim responsibility for things you didn't do. That sounds healthy to me. It's weirder for me to feel guilty about my family, who died hundreds of years ago.

Hmm. I guess it depends on personality as well as circumstances. If I felt guilty for being alive I think my family wouldn't like it because it would be an insult to them lol. Idk

I've been bullied a lot in the past but rather than be feeling bad myself i feel angry at others sometimes.

As for the white guilt thing I thoight it was more an American concept but now I've been hearing a lot about it and it's actually made me feel a little bad for being white, but nobody can choose race. While the past shouldn't be forgotten I don't think it should be used against each other today, you should judge if someone is cool or not by their behaviour and not skin colour.

I suppose you could look at it as in its selfish for your parents to give birth to you when they don't need you, they just want you or just because it's expected by their parents to have a kid. I used to ask my family why I was born and they never gave a good answer so basically I exist and I have no need to but whatever. Lol

I am at lost for what you are saying, are you trying to describe survivor's remorse like when an accident or a disaster happens and people die and others stay alive, they feel guilty for it? I never understood it either. I don't think it's something I will never understand unless it happens to me.

If you mean why does someone feel guilty for being alive because they think they are a burden, that I can understand. Most kids feel it's their fault for what is happening to their family and when a parent tells them how much work they are and how they make them feel and how they affect their mental and psychical health. Even if a parent tells them none of that, the kid can still pick up on how much of a burden they are because they are seeing them paying for their medicine, paying their doctors, how they have to give up their free time to take them to their appointments and to fight for them. So the kid is going to wonder how their parents could put up with this and why do they even keep them instead of just getting rid of them because there is such thing as adoption? I went through this as a 6th grader and I remember telling my mother I was too much money for her and take up her time and she said it was all part of being a parent but I knew she was just saying that to be nice because she didn't do that for my brothers. They didn't have problems. No good parent will say negative things to their child so they will try and normalize it and say things like "I am sure your brothers cost just as much as you do but for other things we have to pay for they need" and "I am sure your brothers take up just as much of our time we do for you because we have to supervise them when they have friends over and have parties and they always want friends around."

Hmm well I think my mum should get rid of one of my siblings but won't because she says she loves them even though they are useless and she already has me and my brother.