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6 days ago

Adopting an Outlook of Personal Control

Personal control—focusing time and energy on factors within one's influence—is central to resilience and reduces victim mentality, low self-worth, frustration, and anger.
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6 days ago

Victim Mentality Is a Trauma Response, Too

When someone has had an experience or series of experiences wherein they were powerless, that sense of helplessness can get stamped onto their perceptions. Psychologists have known this for decades. As early as 1967, an experiment subjected dogs to repeated shocks in such a way that the dogs could not predict when they would be shocked (Overmier and Seligman, 1967). Over time, the creatures simply accepted the shocks and became docile.
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