What Is the Victim Mentality? by June Hunt

see others as powerful but themselves as weak and powerless.

The victim mentality is a mind-set in which a person who was once a victim continues in old thought patterns that foster feelings of powerlessness, even when the victimization has ended.

The victim mentality causes individuals to see others as powerful but themselves as weak and powerless.
The victim mentality leads those who were genuinely powerless to stop abuse in the past to assume the same powerless state in the present. In order to fully embrace the future that the Lord has planned for them, this faulty assumption needs to be replaced with God’s truth.

The victim mentality can consciously or subconsciously be used to deny responsibility for a person’s present actions. The individual continues in self-destructive attitudes and actions while blaming others for the undesirable results. Victory requires a new mind-set.…

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

(2 Corinthians 10:5)

June Hunt, Biblical Counseling Keys on Victimization: Victory Over the Victim Mentality (Dallas, TX: Hope For The Heart, 2003), 4.

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