The victim mentality is totally disempowering. It works on the assumption that others are more capable of directing your life than you are. Such a disabling conclusion forces you to remain passive, convinced that you're defeated before you begin, blocking your positive energy and making it impossible to get anything wonderful back. Your insistence that you have been - or are being - victimized will only bring more evidence of that from the Universe.

Sandra Anne Taylor, Secrets of Attraction: The Universal Laws of Love, Sex and Romance