They must do something to get rid of this unwanted tag-along. Guilt is also a state of being when a person breaks one of God's laws. God gave us a conscience to alert us when our behaviors offend his holiness. When a person disobeys God's law, he becomes guilty in the eyes of God and according to the bible. A guilty person will also feel guilty.
Guilt is both an emotion and a state of being.
Psychology merely asks the patient to deny their guilt and thus be empowered, and attempts to reason patients out of their morality or faith in God and the bible, which alerts them to the fact that they are indeed guilty. Drugs may be prescribed to help dull the person's sense of guilt. The patient may already have attempted to self-medicate the symptoms of guilt with alcohol or other drugs. Dealing with guilt by these methods doesn't work because it is only a band-aid or fig leaf to cover up the real problem. Denying guilt leads to a seared or dulled conscience whose voice becomes very weak.