Victim Syndrome

Victim – We call victim to a person with whom something bad has happened. As humans we all develop sympathy towards victim. Emotions makes us human. Make us fragile.

Victim syndrome is called when someone becomes in habit of remain in victim feeling.

You can easily observe in them:

passive aggressive behavior
Self-defeating behavior
Learned helplessness
Negative affirmations
Self-pity
Blaming others and fate all the time
Exaggerate what happened to them
Comparison with others to gain sympathy
Consistent negative outlook towards world
Hurt people who are trying to advise them
They have limited circle , friends with only those people who can sympathise them and pity them.
Attention seeking

How do you know you are dealing with victim syndrome?

They will always talk about what went wrong
Conversation end up centered to their problem
Engage in negative about themselves
Belief that everyone else has easy life

How victim mindset develops?

Genetic
More pampered child
Seeing others getting pampered
“You must love me” attitude

How it can be worked out?

Grief Therapy
Psychoanalysis
REBT

Monika Khatwani Member since June 12, 2020

Monika Khatwani is a psychologist, Corporate Trainer, Life Coach, Motivational Speaker and an Author. She has 14+ years of experience and has been working on mental health and motivating people to remove psychological blocks from the mind and lead a happy. life. She offers online and offline counselling; specialized in child abuse trauma, psychotherapy and relationship psychology. She also provides corporate training globally and has not been only working on professional but also personal improvement.

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