Confused into passivity : fighting our way out of the collapse of Complex PTSD trauma

I tried to write a post on victim consciousness yesterday, its in drafts because I am not wholly satisified with it enough to post it right now but I have been thinking a lot over the past few days of how we get convinced to give up our truth and to become powerless in the face of external forces, unaware (as we at first are) of how much fear such forces operate on and that our ancestors came out of.. The issue of passivity and victim consciousness is one that Nancy Van Dyken deals with in her book on Everyday Narcissism that I have shared exerpts from in the past….

The truth is that we get inculcated into a victim consciousness by being victimized and overpowered by larger, external forces. We can then become identified with that ‘victim’ role, existing in a learned helplessness, powerless or dis-empowered state. Those who…