Does anyone get anxiety over their past mistakes? I've realized that I've been feeling a LOT of guilt recently for my past mistakes especially when the mistakes involved other people. Even if my intention wasn't to hurt anyone and even if I didn't, I still feel very guilty about making poor decisions out of my own selfishness, insecurities, etc. and being unfair to others. And there are wrong actions I took that were unfair to my loved ones and I'm very sorry for that.

I've been ruminating a lot again and again over any mistake I remember right from recents ones to ones from many years ago. I keep feeling worse and I noticed I look at normal situations (not mistakes) from an anxious overthinking point of view and end up labeling everything as a "big mistake on my part."

So I've been labeling myself sort of as a "bad person" and just going down that spiral. Is this even anxiety? I mean, can anxiety cause ruminating over mistakes and overwhelming feelings of guilt?

How do you let go of it?