I constantly feel like a bad person and like I deserve bad things to happen to me.
Even when I was younger and at school, I felt like even small bad things that happened to me were punishments to me because I’m a bad person.
Like when boys would kick/throw balls at me on purpose. Or when boys would push each other into me as a joke. Or when a bird pooed on my head when I had a full fringe and nobody told me about it until the end of the school day.
I think they were trying to interact with you because they found you interesting, I’m sorry you had such bad times because of it but I don’t think they have meant to harm you.
I feel almost the same, I believe I am a bad person and therefore I don’t deserve good things to happen to me. but this concept is pretty new to me
I haven’t done anything bad or unlawful in my whole life so no I do not feel like a bad person. I got pooed on the shoulder by a bird at school back in the day. I was wearing a black jumper so it showed up as clear as day. I asked to be excused in class to go to the loo to clean it off. Oh, the embarrassment of it!
I used to have terrible guilt for the things I’ve done and said to people in the past, and I felt like my mental and physical ailments were karmic punishments for that.
Nobody deserves any of the shite that’s thrown at them.
To me, it sounds like the boys were the ones who were bad. For me, a bad person is someone who hurts people for no good reason. I don’t think you fit in that category.
Sometimes when I think things like that it’s insecurity. I mean none of us are perfect we all have regrets. I mean during my paranoid episodes I said some very regrettable things. If I don’t forgive myself as I forgive others I can hold onto guilt and feel bad about myself instead of trying to learn from my mistakes and do better. Guilt and blame can become a vicious cycle for me. At least I think that’s what happens to me sometimes. I have to remember progress not perfection.