SCRIPT CHECK · 60 SECONDS
Five quick questions show how often it appears, how believable it feels, and what it makes you avoid. You’ll get one private next step.
This is not a diagnosis and there is no pass or fail. It measures the current frequency, credibility, and behavioral cost of “I feel guilty reaching out to my laid-off coworkers”, including the private rule underneath it: If I reach out to someone the company discarded, I'm admitting I'm complicit in their loss. Silence is the kindest way to distance myself from the system that hurt them.
QUIET
“I feel guilty reaching out to my laid-off coworkers” appears, but it rarely gets the final say. Keep this line available for higher-pressure moments: “Guilt is telling me I can protect them by disappearing. That's not protection — that's isolation I'm choosing for them.”
PRESENT
“I feel guilty reaching out to my laid-off coworkers” wins some small decisions before you catch it. Your useful interruption is: “A text that says 'I thought of you' is the opposite of betrayal. It's the thing that matters when the rest is noise.”
ACTIVE
“I feel guilty reaching out to my laid-off coworkers” is shaping action often enough to deserve a deliberate counterexample. Start privately and concretely: Write one specific message to one person you haven't contacted—name the actual thing you thought of them for—and save it as a draft. Don't send it yet. Just write it.
DOMINANT
Right now, “I feel guilty reaching out to my laid-off coworkers” is steering many of the moments you measured. That is a pattern reading, not a diagnosis or character verdict. Begin with one reversible receipt: Write one specific message to one person you haven't contacted—name the actual thing you thought of them for—and save it as a draft. Don't send it yet. Just write it.