YouTube video by Amber Hollingsworth (uploaded Jan 3, 2025) explaining how people with addiction use gaslighting to shift blame by identifying a 'villain' figure, steering others to focus on that person, and covertly sabotaging or validating rationalizations to avoid accountability.
As long as the addictive person can identify this villain, then they can get all the other people to think that the villain is the problem, which gets everybody else off of their case and onto this person's case. And maybe they're not outwardly like, confronting this other person, but they're secretly sabotaging this other person by validating the addicted person's rationalizations and justifications and feeding into a storyline that's probably not completely true and not holding this person accountable.
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