Self-assessment for Childhood Omnipotent Guilt
1. Have you ever wished or desired the injury, illness, mistreatment or death of a friend or relative? List five instances where you made such wishes.
2. Did harm come to any of the five persons you wished to be harmed?
3. If harm did come to them, explain how your wishing the harm caused it to happen. Assume you are presenting the case to a jury of reasonable adults. What evidence could you present that would indicate that your wishing caused each of these individuals to be injured or die?
4. If you hadn’t of wished harm on another, what is the probability that he or she might have come to harm any way or some other time?
5. Have you ever wished for positive things to happen to others? List five examples of times you have wished for others to enjoy life, good health, prosperity, or other forms of well-being or happiness. In which of these instances do you feel your wishing made these positive results occur? If you were presenting a case to a jury of reasonable adults, what evidence could you present that would indicate that a your wishing caused each of these persons to have an improved life?
6. Write three or four sentences about how childhood omnipotent guilt or superwoman/superman guilt has caused you to feel responsible for events by ascribing magical powers to yourself.