#guilt complex

• To self-blame — To consider oneself guilty on one's own initiative; to unjustly or exaggeratedly attribute to oneself the responsibility for a failure, an error, an unfortunate event, or for the negative emotional state of those around. This destructive psychological mechanism involves excessive internal severity and an obsessive focusing of reproaches on one's own ego.
• Self-blame — The act of self-blaming and its result; a destructive and often unconscious psychological process through which an individual unjustifiably, disproportionately, or chronically assumes guilt for negative events, failures, or the suffering of those around them. This structural act of self-blame severely erodes self-esteem and is frequently correlated with depressive or anxious episodes.