When, after his mother's death, Russo comes to suspect she suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder, he feels tremendous and poignant guilt, seeing himself as her "principal enabler.
Danny, an easygoing, newly divorced stoner with a junk-food habit and a dark burden of guilt, finds himself peculiarly alone.
The Wyeths become social pariahs, and Bill, who is paralyzed with guilt, finds himself unable (or unwilling) to find another job.
He also became overwhelmed with guilt, blaming himself.
On my therapist's advice, I asked my boyfriend not reveal any new affairs to me and to deal with his guilt by himself.
In a similar list, Den of Geek named it the ninth best episode of the series, explaining that "it shouldn't work, and yet it does, because although technically nothing happens, the episode shows us just how deep Walter has sunk into a metaphorical pit of despair and guilt, making himself the villain in his own story and despairing of ever being forgiven.
Regardless, Castiel showed Dean what really happened, and judging by how surprised the angel was that Dean was guilt-tripping himself instead of remembering correctly, it seems like Dean's brain truly did sublimate Castiel's decision to stay into a mistake that Dean made, because his default position is to assume that he's at fault.
Where Connolly notoriously compared himself to a moth-eaten ham actor, a "carcass of vanity, boredom and guilt", Tynan, checking himself out in the changing-room mirrors of men's clothing shops (where the strip lighting is pitiless), confronts "a stricken, blotchy, corpse-pallid, double-chinned, river-veined wreck".
"I could have taken no other course without dishonor," Lee claimed after the war, thus absolving himself of all guilt and virtually ridding himself of any agency in a rebellion that ultimately killed an estimated 750,000 men. Lee washed his hands of treason with the solvent of honor.
"Noticing how the memory of her held him back, he decided he would no longer permit himself guilt".
