Dr. O'Connor in Psychology Today
Dr. O'Connor recently published an article in Psychology Today entitled "How to Live with Survivor's Guilt: It鈥檚 hard to be happy when someone you love is suffering."
"Feeling a form of survivor's guilt can be normal in daily life. The angst that grabs you when you win an award and your coworker is unrecognized, or when you realize you鈥檙e still in love with your husband while your best friend is recently divorced and certain she鈥檒l be alone forever鈥攖hat awful feeling that comes like a weight on your shoulders, pushing you down, that may be survivor's guilt. It鈥檚 so under the surface we rarely recognize it鈥攊t feels like waves of inexplicable anxiety, or depression."
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