Personal Consequences There are often physical consequences such as headaches, ulcers, sleeplessness, heart-attacks, anxiety, fear, tension, depression. This, of course, doesn't mean that anyone with a headache or heart-attack is bitter, but prolonged bitterness will have physical consequences. The mental consequences of bitterness are continued hypercritical attitudes. Nobody can do anything right. And because of the attitudes that accompany bitterness, there are inevitably social consequences.
Bitterness spreads and infects others.
They either catch the critical and grouching spirit from the bitter people, or they decide to avoid their company. And, of course, the rejection caused by the bitterness leads to the people concerned feeling even more bitter, and so the cycle continues. Bitter people are not popular in Cell Groups. They rarely go because they feel rejected. And when they do go, they almost have to make sure that people will reject them.