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RE: Freewrite prompt: As Helpless As a Baby
Well said @happycrazycon You make some great points. I think some people like to play the victim. Maybe it's not they like it, but they get some comfort from that role and the sympathy etc which may come their way. I agree with you that I would prefer to be helpless, than a victim.
Yeah it sounds like the Stockholm syndrome you know. This name derived from a bank robbery in Stockholm where the victims started to sympathize with the robbers and they want to remain as victims. You are right about being too comfortable in it that they can't get themselves out.
Yeah when people "fish" sympathy too much, I could feel and tend to not want to give in to them too.