Gifts for Compulsive_Writer
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Shame.
An incredibly tricky thing, measurable by observing the grandeur of the shadow it cast: the performance of pride.
As any clinician worth their salt knows, the two are often a single, entwined mechanism. When shame is forced into the spotlight, pride grows like a shroud trying to swallow the very thing that created it. To hide it.
Shame was a wound both cauterized to the sense of self, and caustic to it at the same time.
The bone spurs of the ego.