survivor_guilt.n.01

'survivor_guilt.n.01'

[survivor_guilt.n.01] as in: a deep feeling of guilt often experienced by those who have survived some catastrophe that took the lives of many others; derives in part from a feeling that they did not do enough to save the others who perished and in part from feelings of being unworthy relative to those who died

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Examples:
survivor guilt was first noted in those who survived the Holocaust