Are You a Victim? Do You Help a Victim?

There are victims and victims. Of course we are all victims of something; ranging from the worst like child abuse( and I'm not talking about those) to people going on and on how unfairly they are treated in life. My problem is with people who are not actual victims, they are just good at "playing the victim". They are very good at acting, that's for sure. These types can be found in the Medical Professional's waiting-rooms and are usually hypochondriacs. Doctors, who have studied long an hard and have worked all hours of the day to become a Medical Professional have to listen to hours and hours of vague complaints from these people. What they want to hear is that they have a dreadful disease with a long name (but not so bad you can actually die from it). Then they can tell their family with tears in their eyes that someone needs to take care of them. Because they are "sick". This is emotional blackmail of the highest order, but a lot of people do it and a lot of us go for it. Whole families are manipulated by people like that.

Another one is having an addiction. People start an addiction and when everything turns to custard they are "the victim" and so someone else is supposed to take care of them. Family and friends of alcohol and drug abusers know exactly what I mean. "I can't take care of myself, I can't take responsibility for my actions and myself, so you do it, please take over my life!" is what they are saying.