Cart is empty Individuals impacted by financial scamming might experience a variety of different emotions. These emotional effects are very common and are often in response to trauma that occurred as a result of scamming.
questioning oneself, one’s actions not knowing whether what we experience is reality based and feeling isolated in the process not knowing what to do, it is likely that there have been demands for money put on us, which further exacerbates the distress about the situation
Shame is the affect which is the source of many complex and disturbing inner states: depression, alienation, self-doubt, isolating loneliness, paranoid schizotypal phenomena, feelings of inadequacy or failure. Shame sits hidden often cultivated by the atmosphere of secrecy and darkness. The effect of shame can be toxic in relation to our relatedness to our sense of self and interactions with others
similarly to shame is a highly debilitating emotion creating negative reflection on us as a person, which might result if feeling self-conscious, awkward and inadequate often individual’s affected by this emotion may have tendency to avoid social interactions, they might be defensive and difficult to approach. Embarrassment is also described as “a fleeting feeling of self-conscious discomfort in response to a minor incident that was witnessed by others.
similarly to shame guilt is an emotion that we experience when we fall short of our own expectations and standards. With guilt our focus is on having done something wrong and on doing something to set things right like apologizing and changing a behaviour. Remorse, a subset of guilt, is what we feel when we acknowledge that we have harmed another person, we feel bad about it, and we want to atone for our behaviour
is an emotion that we feel when something gets in a way of a desired outcome or when we believe there is a violation of the way things should be. Anger might come in the aftermath of the initial shock of losing one’s possessions, discovering the deceit we have been subjected to often feeling helpless and violated as a result
Other accompanying feelings might also include: depression, feelings of hopelessness about life; loss of trust in others,, loss of a sense of self- confidence and sense of security.
The aftermath of the scamming might also result in feelings of grief and loss about possessions, status and hopes and dreams about the future crashed as a result of scamming.
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