Victim as cover for mental disorder

Politics becomes boring. The same people say the same things, day after day after day. Fox, CNN, HLN, CBS, BBC, Al Jazeera … Nothing changes.

People … Ah, yes, people. Funny creatures. Sometimes predictable, sometimes not.

And from TV and internet news, I wondered “Why do these people think they are victims? What do they think life should be?”

So, this:

“It’s not trauma; it’s narcissism. I am a psychotherapist. Real trauma survivors typically seek to avoid talking about their traumas and often have to be coaxed to go to psychotherapy. People who start campus crusades because they’re offended or their feelings are allegedly hurt probably have a different primary diagnosis.”

http://takimag.com/article/diagnosed_with_liberalism_gavin_mcinnes/print#ixzz3cr3kZFLo

That paragraph made me realize that it is from colleges where spring so many incidents of “I was offended” or “The words frightened me” or “His statement was racist.”

Young women and young men away from home, away from the hovering helicopter parents, never trained or allowed to make an independent decision, emotionally and intellectually pigeon-holed by smarter, more-degreed adults, adults who often have no experience of life outside higher education, but who do know they have great influence on those young minds … The whole concept of victimhood is narcissistic.