Victim Syndrome Research Paper

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I think a crucial factor that makes people consider themselves as victims in the U.S is their lack of security and low self esteem. This places them in a difficult situation. This is way of thinking in most cases occurs to introverts . The feeling of powerlessnes is another major contributing factor to this. SInce most people like to seem them selves as powerless, they spend most of their time discrediting them selves, consider themselves victims of circumstances. Apportioning blame to others for the way things turn out in their lives rather than take responsibility for their actions and take decisions on their own.

individuals who experience the victim syndrome persistently grumbling about the ―bad occurrences in their lives. Since

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