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Children feeling excessive guilt could experience mental illness as adults

For adults, guilt and excessive self-blame is a symptom of depression. Now, a new study is looking at how feelings of guilt during childhood could play a role in mental illnesses for them later as adults. These future illnesses include depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Washington University of St. Louis researchers conducted a 12-year longitudinal […]

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