Can you reach your potential without facing trauma? One perspective: people stuck in victim identity swing between weakness and aggression, identifying with their aggressor. The difference between being victimized and choosing victim as your identity shapes everything.
Can we still reach our potential if we don't face trauma, or is it going to be limited?
I think we're gonna be chronic victims, and every time you are a victim, you're gonna find the victimizer, or you fluctuate between victim, becoming victimizer, because victims are weak and victimizers are strong. So part of the psyche will identify with the aggressor. That's what we call Stockholm Syndrome. I'm not the victim, I was victimized. It's not who I am, it's what was done to me. Very different. That I'm innocent, because yesterday's victims can easily become today's victimizers.
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