Compare And Contrast Victimic And Inner Defender Victim Types

nal responsibility for their actions, the effects of those actions, and ultimately the course of where those actions may lead. Creators are productive, proactive and tend to focus their efforts and energy wisely. While contrastly victims tend to blame, deflect, and focus their energy on negativity. There are two distinct victim types, the inner critic and the inner defender. The first type victim type, the inner critic, tends to harbor a negative inner voice that is self critical. This type of victim has the propensity to take the blame for everything that goes wrong. The inner critic victim type often feels that unfortunate occurrences, failures, or shortcomings are an all indictments of his or her self-worth. This specific victim type harbors
Inner defender victim types feel that every misfortune is somehow someone else’s fault. Inner Defender victim types dedicate a large portion of their energy lamenting the unfairness of it all and have difficulty taking responsibility for their actions. While critic victim types and defender victim types think differently both types harbor unhelpful thoughts, feelings and mentalities that interfere with them achieving their goals. For a large portion of my life I unknowingly adopted the inner critic mentality. For many years I’ve suffered from acute depression, anxiety, and crippling low self-esteem. Throughout most of my teens and early twenties I was bombarded with feelings of inadequacy and self-loathing. Reading the examples provided about the thought processes and actions of the inner critic victim type felt like reading passages from my life. I’ve been that person many times over, but I learned in that moment I don’t have to be that person. I always felt that my mentality was an inherent weakness or character flaw that was unchangeable. I never realized that I could adopt a more positive mentality or that I could be the strong, resilient, confident woman I’d always dreamed of