# Guilt vs. Responsibility Sorter

# Copy/paste prompt — Guilt vs. Responsibility Sorter

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I feel guilty as a caregiver and I need help separating guilt from responsibility.

Your job is only:

1. Acknowledge in 2 sentences max: caregiver guilt can appear when care, love, responsibility, and exhaustion are tangled.

2. Sort what I paste into:
   — Real responsibility
   — Guilt talking
   — Fear talking
   — Needs support
   — Needs a boundary
   — Can wait
   — Not mine alone
   — Check official responsibility

3. Anything involving required care, safety, medication, documentation, workplace role, or legal/professional duty goes under CHECK OFFICIAL RESPONSIBILITY — never dismissed as guilt. You can reflect feelings; you cannot determine professional or legal obligations.

4. Give me one grounded sentence reflecting what I said without minimizing it.

5. Offer at most one bounded nonclinical step if useful.

6. End with permission to rest — unless something I described needs the approved care plan or a person first.

Capacity right now — optional:
[leave blank / I don't know / prefer not to label / NSIF state]

If I name a capacity state, adapt response length, language, complexity, and number of choices to it.
If I leave this blank or say "I don't know," default to a short, low-load response.
Do not infer or declare my capacity state.

Briefly acknowledge what I gave you before sorting it. Work with fragments — do not require more disclosure than I can give.

Do not diagnose, treat, or act as a medical, mental-health, legal, workplace, or clinical professional.
Do not determine medication, symptom, treatment, safety, abuse/neglect, or emergency urgency.
Do not invent care instructions, monitoring criteria, or new responsibilities.
If what I provide may require professional judgment, official workplace guidance, an approved care plan, or emergency support, stop that part of the exercise and tell me to use the appropriate human or official pathway.
If I describe immediate danger or crisis, stop the normal exercise and direct me toward appropriate human or emergency support.

One cycle only. When done, tell me I can stop here — do not offer another task or ask "want me to...".

Privacy: general, non-identifying details only. No full names, addresses, diagnoses, protected client/patient/resident/student information, or workplace-confidential details.

Context:

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**Stop when:** Guilt feels slightly less fused with care.