The Victim Identity (DUmmies And Leftists Are Perpetual Victims)

[Ptarmigan]

The Victim Identity
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/traversing-the-inner-terrain/201102/the-victim-identity

Many of us whine for a minute when things don't go our way. We need a little grief time, a little time to gather ourselves back together again, renegotiate our hopes and dreams more in alignment with reality, and then we're back in the saddle again. The time it takes for us to do that varies with each individual.  Many people feel a tad embarrassed when they whine this way because, well, it feels to us as if we are on the pity-pot. And, you know, maybe for a minute we are.  But really, don't we all just need to go there sometimes?

That temporary state of self-pity, however, is a drop in the bucket compared to what happens when we are dealing with someone with a full-blown Victim identity.  A person with a Victim identity is someone who has identified with whatever crises, traumas, illnesses or other difficulties have occurred in their lives, particularly those that began very early in life.  They did this as a survival technique. Better to go ahead and just realize that life is a long fight with City Hall that you always lose, than to get your hopes up that you just might win every now and then. Hopes can be smashed and a person can be devastated by such dashing. So, why not just avoid the whole mess altogether by just being a perpetual victim.

The belief systems of the person with a Victim identity fall along these lines:
-Life is really, really hard.
-Don't get up, you'll just get kicked back down again.
-Beware, always beware of trickery; it's around every corner.
-You can't trust anyone.
-I can't.
-You just don't understand how hard it is for me.
-Everyone is always picking on me.
-"They" are always bigger, badder and smarter than me.

Checking out DU or any leftist place, I see an obsession with victimhood. Be it radical feminists, BlackLivesMatter, racists, animal rights, militant gays, and Islamists. They always see themselves as victims.

DUmmies and leftists are addicted to victimhood.

[obumazombie]

I am quite dubious regarding psychologists and psychiatrists anymore.
It wasn't that many years ago those "sciences" delisted homosexuality as a mental disorder.

[SVPete]

I am quite dubious regarding psychologists and psychiatrists anymore.
It wasn't that many years ago those "sciences" delisted homosexuality as a mental disorder.

Working in applied physics (aka electronics), I think calling fields that study aspects of human behavior - e.g. psychology, economics - "sciences" is inappropriate. Too inexact; too complex; too susceptible to the observed changing their behavior when they know they are being observed; too susceptible to the observer's preconceived conclusions being designed into the tests and observations.

That said, the article does capture the kind of victim mentality that is prevalent in many parts of American society. If it helps, oz, think of the article as an example of stopped clock syndrome.

[txradioguy]

I am quite dubious regarding psychologists and psychiatrists anymore.
It wasn't that many years ago those "sciences" delisted homosexuality as a mental disorder.

It's an old trick of Communism.  Tell the masses the reason they are in the state they are in is because the "rich" have been stealing from them.  They aren't in the situation they are in because of their own doing...they've been victimized by "the man".

And when you convince people of that...you can generate the mob that drives leftist politics.  If those so called victims ever wake up and realize who it is that's really been doing it to them...Dems as a party are finished.

I think the black community is finally starting to get wise to this...hence the reason the Dems are hell bent on importing so many Muslims and Mexicans into the U.S.

They will become the new victim class...you can already see the media laying the groundwork.

[diesel driver]

The Victim Identity
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/traversing-the-inner-terrain/201102/the-victim-identity

Checking out DU or any leftist place, I see an obsession with victimhood. Be it radical feminists, BlackLivesMatter, racists, animal rights, militant gays, and Islamists. They always see themselves as victims.

DUmmies and leftists are addicted to victimhood.

Addicted?  They PERFECTED it!