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A mental condition that occurs when a person believes they have done something wrong by surviving a traumatic or tragic event when others did not
Survivor guilt or survivor's guilt happens when individuals feel guilty after they survive a near death or traumatic event when others perished. It can cause similar depressive symptoms associated with PTSD. Niederlande first introduced the term to describe the feeling of punishment many of the Holocaust survivors felt for surviving their loved ones. The experience and manifestation of survivor's ... Wikipedia
