Victim mentality seems to be everywhere today. This mentality refers to people who perceive themselves as consistently wronged or oppressed by others.

People feel like victims often because of past abuse, neglect, or failures, leading them to feel powerless, taken advantage of, and victimized.

Parents or other role models can teach much of the attitude. The media, especially social media, but really any story that is told to gain sympathy for someone as being powerless in the dominant system of life.

Victimhood is likely a symptom of low self-esteem, feeling inadequate, or less than needed. Not learning to control their thoughts leads people to only look for what they believe and so confirm or reinforce their chosen negative bias. Negative thinking is greatly connected to the victim mentality.

Victim mentality has become a great way to gain attention, followers, and sympathy and to avoid personal responsibility.

Lacking personal growth or training may have left many without the coping skills to face life’s challenges.

When facing constant difficulty, adversity, illness, bad luck, or whatever, the sense of powerlessness feels real and leads to a victim mentality.

Social groups can form to help innocents accept they are victims and release them from their personal responsibility.

Yes, people betrayed you, criticized you, didn’t love you, or didn’t meet your emotional needs, but you are still responsible and can get up and win. It is not what happens to you, but how you handle what happens to you. It is not what happens outside of you, but what happens in your heart and thinking processes.

Just like you have learned to play the victim, you can learn to play the victorious. Maybe people have mistreated you and accused you, but you do not have to accept that as your reality.

It’s time to stop comparing yourself with others and compare yourself to how much you grew compared to yourself yesterday.

Despite being babied and raised in bubble wrap with helicopter parents, you can learn to overcome.

One man who could have easily cried out that he was a victim but decided that he would have a dream. He would see the world not as it is but as it should be. He made a difference in the world.

Stop being influenced by the crowd and become an influencer. Someone said stop being a thermometer and become a thermostat. Set the temperature, not just report on current conditions.