SURVIVOR GUILT


Meaning of SURVIVOR GUILT in English

the strange feeling in the pit of your stomach when your coworkers have been laid off, yet you remain employed. simultaneously feeling selfishly joyous and sympathetically sorry that you still have a job when others around you don't. Example: bill experienced survivor guilt when karen told him she had just been laid off.

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