If I did something very bad as a child but stopped as a teen, should I still be feeling guilty?

I don't know what you did, but chances are that your judgment wasn't developed enough then to realize that it was wrong. Once it was, you stopped-so you shouldn't feel guilty. You just developed sound judgment.

Well easing a guilty conscience is very uplifting for you, but could have consequences. If it is eating you up inside, whatever you did, then come clean, free your conscience and move on. Not to mention you are planning on telling your friends and your boyfriend - if they are your friends and care about you they won't judge too harshly.

I tend to doubt it was murder. Kids/teens do bad things. We need to accept what we did and move on to do better. Don't forget you did it, but accept you can't change it and work to never do it again.

I wouldn't! :)

It isn't clear what you did. Only then can you decide how bad it really was and if you need to dwell on it.

I agree with what CrossEyedMary said.

forgive yourself and let it go.

And how does it benefit you to feel guilt in the first place? What does it do? Make you a "better person"? Cure "hurt feelings"? Make you live forever?

Of course, the answer "no" fits in really well to the above questions, doesn't it?

There is no reason for feeling guilt. We merely perform actions as human beings. We come into this world. We do things. Things are done to us. We disappear. In the meantime, people will experience joy and suffer pain. People will blame other people, god and even you for their suffering, instead of just enjoying it and moving on the next experience. No matter *what* you did, you don't own anyone anything. You aren't "horrible", a "bad person", or "born defective", as the sh1tty self-esteemed will have you believe. You merely seek pleasure and sometimes err in judgment in your pursuit of it. Is there anything wrong with that? Of course not.

Fu(k guilt and all the ridiculous people that support it. It isn't needed. Merely move on - with joy - and keep doing and being done to.