Survivor's guilt

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Survivor guilt is the mental condition that results from the appraisal that a person has done wrong by surviving traumatic events such as combat or disasters. The effect of survivor's guilt depends on the person’s own psychological make-up.

Apparent sufferers include Bernice Summerfield (NA: Love and War) and the Ninth Doctor. (DW: Dalek)

The Eighth Doctor insisted that he was psychologically incapable of experiencing such a thing. (EDA: The Gallifrey Chronicles)

Survivor's guilt