A damaged person is often tempted to doubt God's ability to restore from guilt and shame. Adults can be shamed, too, through divorce, failure, rape, bankruptcy or other traumas. There are a host of ways a person can be shamed. Ask our Father to show you how you have been degraded by your life experiences. However your dignity may have suffered, or your personhood destroyed, you need to realize that part of the work of God in your life is to restore you to wholeness in your concepts about yourself.
Shame produces emotional pain.
When a person is shamed his or her emotions are damaged. This causes a sense of loss, hurt, and devaluation. Unlike broken skin, though, a broken spirit does not automatically heal. Sometimes there is a physical pain which is based solely in the emotions. Shamed people medicate their pain.