Post by Pat McGrath Avery
Joyce Faulkner and I have worked with numerous veterans over the last fifteen years. We have found many common threads among them. One of the most frequently found is a lingering sense of guilt - because they survived when others in their unit didn't or because someone else was injured or killed for something they did or didn't do.
How many people do you know who carry a sense of guilt? Maybe the woman who was molested or raped and feels that in some way it was her fault - or the abused child who knows he had to do something bad to be repeatedly beaten by his dad (or mom). Maybe it's the person who survived a car wreck or another accident when everyone else died - or the fireman that couldn't save that child.
Whatever the situation, guilt consumes them. I think we all know guilt at some level. It influences our lives in so many ways. In Out of the Depths, David explores a person haunted by guilt for the things he did to survive his years in a Nazi concentration camp.
Joyce Faulkner and I have worked with numerous veterans over the last fifteen years. We have found many common threads among them. One of the most frequently found is a lingering sense of guilt - because they survived when others in their unit didn't or because someone else was injured or killed for something they did or didn't do.
How many people do you know who carry a sense of guilt? Maybe the woman who was molested or raped and feels that in some way it was her fault - or the abused child who knows he had to do something bad to be repeatedly beaten by his dad (or mom). Maybe it's the person who survived a car wreck or another accident when everyone else died - or the fireman that couldn't save that child.
Whatever the situation, guilt consumes them. I think we all know guilt at some level. It influences our lives in so many ways. In Out of the Depths, David explores a person haunted by guilt for the things he did to survive his years in a Nazi concentration camp.
