"It also requires true Europeans on the other side to quash any feelings of punishment or prejudice that are stirring within the corridors of power in Brussels and other European capitals".
The BDI items assess the various symptoms of depression including melancholy, anhedonia, somatic symptoms, feelings of punishment, suicide thoughts [ 21, 22].
We suggest focusing on altruism and cooperation while also emphasizing the feelings of justice, punishment and guilt that may have evolved in order to stabilize cooperation (Trivers 1971).
Furthermore, patients' complaints about coercive interventions as well as most public debates do not primarily address objective characteristics such as safety, efficacy, or duration of these measures but focus on subjective feelings of humiliation, punishment, and traumatisation [ 23- 28].
Especially after many years of avoidance, embarrassment phenomena lead to feelings of self-punishment, poor self-image/esteem and in some cases personality changes in a vicious circle of anxiety and avoidance.
It has also been argued that a strong sense of embarrassment, especially following many years of avoidance, related to feelings of self-punishment, shame and negative self-image may be an important aspect of a vicious cycle of dental anxiety [ 15, 18].
From infancy, all children have aggressive and erotic feelings about their parents, but they repress those feelings out of fear of punishment.
The NATS subscale included the following BDI items: mood, pessimism, sense of failure, lack of satisfaction, feelings of guilt, sense of punishment, self-dislike, self-blame, suicidal ideation, and crying.
It is not the moral evaluation that is in the focus of this question, but the fear of punishment and the negative feelings associated with it.
In some way, I decided that this feeling of being haunted was also a kind of punishment.
