a. Healthy Shame
b. Unhealthy shame
It is this type of shame that differentiates a mad person from a normal person. Mad people lack this type of shame; that is why they can walk about in public naked; they can defecate in public and so on. Let us look at the reverse side of healthy shame.
A pervasive sense of shame is the ongoing premise that is fundamentally bad, inadequate, defective, unworthy or not fully valid as a human being.
Unhealthy shame is false and it lingers for a long time; weighing the victim down. The pain of this type of shame is this: it is not a signal of something that is really wrong in us that needs to be made right. That is why it is a 'false' feeling; because it saps our creative power and kills our joy. Nobody deserves this type of shame because we are not as bad as the feeling tells us we are. Unhealthy shame has a strong relationship with fear because both of them are capable of draining ones happiness and joy.
o On progress: Unhealthy fear is a canker that eats deep into one's existence. It is an enemy we must fight and win in order to make headway. We do not deserve to fear anything. Only God deserves our fear and reverence. Whenever an action is being carried out in fear, the result is always ridiculous. That is why fear hinders and paralyses the victim. It can make you chase a mere shadow; spending your time, energy and resources in fighting something that does not exist.