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When Survivor Guilt Makes Happiness Feel Wrong

My best friend died in a car accident and I feel guilty every time something good happens to me because she'll never experience anything again.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Joy becomes contaminated by the awareness of another's permanent absence from it.

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