Survivors guilt is persistent and mental stress that someone experiences when they have survived an incident in which other people died.
When a person goes through something traumatic and they survive but others die the surviving person or surviving people often feel guilt that they are alive but others are dead and didn't live.
Survivors guilt can cause similar depressive symptoms that are associated with PTSD.
Survivors guilt is what happens when people feel guilty after they survive a near death or traumatic event when others died in the same event that they survived.
The logic of survivors guilt is that survivors guilt piles on the unconscious thought that luck is part of a zero sum game.
To have good luck is to deprive someone else of it.
The anguish of the guilt, it's sheer pain, is a way of sharing some of the ill fate.
And it's a form of empathic distress.
The signs of survivors guilt include.
Having trouble moving past what has happened.
Being angry or irritable.
Having constant thoughts of not doing enough.
Having your mind consumed by thoughts about what happened.
And experiencing flashbacks or nightmares taking you back to the event where others died but you survived.