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How do I release the past mistakes I made and stop blaming myself?

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Anonymous on May 22, 2017
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Think about whether what you did is really worth the worrying you're doing about it. Is anybody else hurt by your mistakes? Are they likely to remember it? Were other factors involved? Was it entirely your fault? Thinking objectively can help relieve the constant guilt.
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Anonymous on Oct 16, 2017
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You are only human, mistakes happens so that we can learn from them and be better. No use blaming urself on things that you can't change it will get you no where. Take time to realize what happened is inevitable and all u can do is learn from it and move forward to make sure you do better the next time.
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cares4you92 on Feb 6, 2018
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Realize that you cannot change those past mistakes. Try to forgive yourself. Recognize that mistakes are unavoidable, but promise yourself to learn from them and transform the negative past experiences into positive future ones.
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Maxinchen on Feb 6, 2018
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We can't make the past undone but we can prevent the same mistake from happening again. Also, things like apologizing are almost always possible!
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Rebekah on Aug 6, 2020
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This is a really tricky thing to do, and it is definitely something that a lot of people can struggle with. One way of releasing our past mistakes could be to accept that we made them and that they happened, and to try and learn from these mistakes and grow as a person. Another way could be to write down how you feel about them and then burning the paper/putting the document into the recycling bin. There are a few ways we can use to stop blaming ourselves too - we could talk about how we feel, review our actions and acknowledge they were perhaps incorrect, and to remember that we made those mistakes in the past and hopefully we will not make them again.
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Anonymous on Oct 13, 2020
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I find it hard to let go of mistakes I made in the past. It's hard to look back and not see mistakes, but with practice you may be able to see them as lessons learned. Most of the time, we blame ourselves for things outside our control because having no one to blame means there's nothing we could have done to stop it. Firstly, it's good to look over the mistake we made and see if it's really something we did, or something we blame ourselves for. For example "Dropped a plate of food" is an accident, not a mistake. "Had a car accident at a red light where I was stopped" again is not your fault. It's a hard skill to learn, but with practice just knowing what mistakes where ours and weren't can help you reduce and even remove blame from yourself.
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