Pathological remorse

According to Zekaisei psychiatry, remorse is pathological if it causes a person to experience intense feelings of remorse (sorrow over wrongdoing) as an internal response to a self-committed act that is not wrong or as a response that is not proportional to the offense actually committed and if it severely impairs major social, emotional, and cognitive function in life. It may be a psychiatric disorder in and of itself or a symptom of a major depressive disorder.