emotional abuse, recovery, scapegoat
Is someone in your family, relationship, job place, other group scapegoated?
Is it you?
Scapegoating is a term to label what happens when a person of authority chooses a single person, employee, or group and blames these vulnerable people for all manner of things for which they are not responsible or that are not even real accusations. Once the powerful person in the family or system chooses the scapegoat the entire system will often join in with name calling, targeting, shaming, blaming, belittling, victimizing, abusing, and projecting, especially if the group is made up of emotionally immature or unquestioning people.
Anytime a person is at the bottom of the pecking order they naturally begin to think of themselves as bad, guilty, culpable, valueless, inferior... Accepting the blame, shrinking, enduring the domination, or swallowing the prejudice becomes a way of moving through the world. Being the scapegoat in one system makes it comfortable to be scapegoated in other systems as well.
Most parents do all they can to treat their children equally. Most places of employment seek to operate in fairness and justice. Most churches, classrooms, and other groups try to make their organizations healthy and loving and warm. But the unhealthiest of them project their unhealthy toxicity onto the weakest or most vulnerable.
The quiet, the hyperactive, the quirky, the outside-of-the-box, the rebellious,
the one unable to speak up for themselves, the different one, the mentally ill. These are the people often chosen to be the one to carry the blame.
The scapegoat.
The scapegoated child becomes a suffering adult.
The scapegoated employee becomes less and less employable.
The scapegoated spouse becomes powerless.
The pattern continues UNTIL the scapegoated person recognizes the dynamic.
If you are this person, try to understand the toxic system later. Start today by recognizing that you can change the pattern in your own life. You have the power to learn more. Within you is the ability to be happy.
Read. Talk to supportive people. Read. Put distance between you and anyone who tries to keep you bound in that scapegoat box. Read, Seek help to break the patterns, to loosen the ties that bind you. Read, Decide to heal that wounded person inside of you. Read. Know the difference between being wrong and being to blame.
If you are working on affirmations, consider adding these:
Is it you?
Scapegoating is a term to label what happens when a person of authority chooses a single person, employee, or group and blames these vulnerable people for all manner of things for which they are not responsible or that are not even real accusations. Once the powerful person in the family or system chooses the scapegoat the entire system will often join in with name calling, targeting, shaming, blaming, belittling, victimizing, abusing, and projecting, especially if the group is made up of emotionally immature or unquestioning people.
Anytime a person is at the bottom of the pecking order they naturally begin to think of themselves as bad, guilty, culpable, valueless, inferior... Accepting the blame, shrinking, enduring the domination, or swallowing the prejudice becomes a way of moving through the world. Being the scapegoat in one system makes it comfortable to be scapegoated in other systems as well.
Most parents do all they can to treat their children equally. Most places of employment seek to operate in fairness and justice. Most churches, classrooms, and other groups try to make their organizations healthy and loving and warm. But the unhealthiest of them project their unhealthy toxicity onto the weakest or most vulnerable.
the one unable to speak up for themselves, the different one, the mentally ill. These are the people often chosen to be the one to carry the blame.
The scapegoat.
The scapegoated child becomes a suffering adult.
The scapegoated employee becomes less and less employable.
The scapegoated spouse becomes powerless.
The pattern continues UNTIL the scapegoated person recognizes the dynamic.
If you are this person, try to understand the toxic system later. Start today by recognizing that you can change the pattern in your own life. You have the power to learn more. Within you is the ability to be happy.
Read. Talk to supportive people. Read. Put distance between you and anyone who tries to keep you bound in that scapegoat box. Read, Seek help to break the patterns, to loosen the ties that bind you. Read, Decide to heal that wounded person inside of you. Read. Know the difference between being wrong and being to blame.
If you are working on affirmations, consider adding these:
- I am my own authority.
- I am a unique, interesting, precious human being.
- I am true to myself.
- This is my life.
- At any instant I can begin a new life.
- I am skeptical of criticism and of critics.
- All of my feelings are mine.
- I define myself.
- I accept responsibility for my own life.
- I don't need the critics to understand, accept, or approve of my growth.
- I deserve kindness.
- I treat myself with love and gentleness.
- It is normal to make errors.
- I can find happiness and harmony in this life.
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