What is the victim's mentality?
The victim's mentality is a state of mind in which one can often find himself after solving abuse or unfortunate events. This state of mind usually causes a person to believe that he has little control over his life and that the events that occur are the result of what someone is doing. Although there is legitimacy that some things that happen in a person's life are caused by someone else's activities, this type of thinking usually expands this perception far beyond what is reasonable. The victim's mentality can often make it difficult to advance forward in his life and can also cause a number of secondary questions. This is often caused by abuse or tragedy in a person's life that causes a lack of control. Some people are physically or emotionally abused by a child, the child feels helpless to stop abuse as a child, and once an adult can still feel this type of helplessness through the victim's mentality.
It is important to realize that after abuse or tragedy develops the mentality of victims, but continues in normal or healthy life. Someone who has become a victim of abuse, but is no longer in an offensive situation, can accuse their rapist for a speed ticket, which he receives rather than accepting responsibility for too fast driving. Other problems that occur, such as the disease, children who behave inappropriately, the loss of work and the ending relationship will usually be accused of someone else. When someone has a victim's mentality, he cannot take responsibility for what is happening.
This type of mentality of the victim usually stems from true helplessness, such as the loss of a loved one because of a natural disaster or a violent act that is over human control. However, the extension of this helplessness to other parts of a person's life can be extremely harmful and makes it difficult for the person to exceed events that have caused the victim's mentality. One of the first steps that many people have to take to liberateLO from this mentality is forgiven the source of abuse or tragedy and forgive that it cannot stop it. This can help one start moving around what happened and start seeing how he can take control of what is happening in his life.