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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-09 01:46 PM
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An interesting thing about survivors of abuse.
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They put a lot of effort into trying to please their abusers. Even after the possibility of abuse ends because the abuser has become weak and infirm, the abuse victims frantically seek to appease the abusers, afraid to anger them. In their deeply ingrained fear, they are unable to see that they are no longer in danger. They just keep acting as if the abuser were still all-powerful. It generally takes some pretty good psychotherapy to get the victims to let go of their victimhood.

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