Joyce Marter wrote a Huffington Post blog on how to recover from a shame attack. Below is an excerpt from the blog:
“One of my friends, who is a therapist, accidentally drunk-dialed her male client (rather than her ex-boyfriend) and played a love song into his voicemail after saying she missed him. The next morning, her client politely called her to alert her of the error. Her emotional response at that moment is what is called a, ‘shame attack.'”
You can read the full blog here