Guilt and shame are closely connected emotions, so closely connected, indeed, that many people use them interchangeably. They are also closely tied to the same feelings of humiliation, embarrassment, disgust, regret, remorse, and self-consciousness, …
Despite these similarities, empirical evidence and professional practice suggest that they are, in fact, different emotions that can contribute to or even lead to different behavioural and psychological outcomes. Perhaps the most salient difference is what many practitioners come to see as the fundamental message delivered by these emotions. While our shame asserts that we are fundamentally flawed, our guilt screams that we did terrible things. In other words, I am bad vs I did something bad.