The difference between a depressed and an angry person – both feel shame – but the angry person feels it was unjust – as it was! – to have been humiliated; while the depressed person (in Freudian terms, his own super-ego (somewhat akin to conscience but more closely related to ego) is internally shaming – which is why they might (sometimes do unfortunately) kill themselves
By zevi770 · July 13, 2015