it’s been years since I read this study so good luck finding it, but UC Santa Barbara did a study on the resilience of rape victims in the mid-2000s. Two groups made up of women in the college campus: women who were raped and wanted to process it/put it behind them, and women who took on the title of “survivor” and made it a core part of their “identity.” The study lasted a year. Average time for the process & move on group to return to a mental health baseline was around 3 months. Most of the survivor group were still in a state of trauma by the time the study ended.
There was also a study that determined a new type of personality disorder called the “Tendency for Interpersonal Victomhood” where the key feeling is “an ongoing feeling that the self is a victim”. The four key traits are moral elitism, a lack of empathy, the need for recognition, and rumination.
The modern woke approach of making everything “valid” is a cancer on functional mental health and a healthy way to relate to people in your community. There’s always been red flags about these people, and I’m glad we’re able to make good research that proves that. Their method of arguing online (Twitter/tumblr discourse) is a self-contained network that only makes sense if you buy in wholesale. Step outside and read studies like I mentioned above and you quickly see how broken and dysfunctional they are, and how they drag everyone else down. There is never anything good from perpetual victim hood no matter how much you dress it up in “valid” terminology
to loop back to troons - the victim hood personality condition is exemplified by always-online troons. Anyone deep in this thread has already seen the linked studies showing the very high rates of Cluster-B personality disorders, but the victim hood study helps further define the mechanisms of day to day interaction.
