I read something that made much sense to me -- we are victims of inner-critic constrictedness.
We believe in all kinds of boundaries, all kinds of injunctions, all kinds of shoulds...
And we basically pathologize anything that does not fall within those parameters, those imposed (from without/within) shoulds.
I suppose it takes much courage and some measure of equilibrium to "de-constrict" that inner without totally silencing the critic - who is not always necessarily a negative voice.
