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guilt trip
Noun but increasingly used as a verb also:-
'Guilt Trips Kill Motivation
One day I got a letter from someone who wanted me to feel guilty. Looking back I can say that I was guilt-tripped, but at the time this wasn't so clear to me. I see now she also wanted to hurt me because she was feeling hurt about something.
I felt depressed most of the day after reading it. This made me think that guilt trips kill your motivation. Maybe this is because when we feel guilty we start to think we are a bad person. And if we are a bad person then we don't deserve to live. So if we don't deserve to live, then we have no motivation to even try to meet our survival needs. We also don't feel worthy or deserving of help from others.'
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Noun but increasingly used as a verb also:-
'Guilt Trips Kill Motivation
One day I got a letter from someone who wanted me to feel guilty. Looking back I can say that I was guilt-tripped, but at the time this wasn't so clear to me. I see now she also wanted to hurt me because she was feeling hurt about something.
I felt depressed most of the day after reading it. This made me think that guilt trips kill your motivation. Maybe this is because when we feel guilty we start to think we are a bad person. And if we are a bad person then we don't deserve to live. So if we don't deserve to live, then we have no motivation to even try to meet our survival needs. We also don't feel worthy or deserving of help from others.'
See for definition and example of verb and noun use http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=guilt trip :down: