a new small study is shedding light on how guilt how the brain processes and responds to it factors into depression people with depression respond to guilt differently study many people think of the fear response as a negative response they want to eliminate it your fear response though can actually become a strength one that you can harness and use to your advantage why we feel nerves more articles like the one in the new york times are needed to inform parents about the consequences of putting excessive pressure on their kids and readily giving them powerful psychiatric medications to improve their focus and their grades whos shrinking the kids