We see the world through a victim lens anytime we make something out there responsible for our own state of well-being.
It doesn't matter if we see that thing as causing us happiness or pain … it's still victim mentality when we hold anything outside ourselves as the cause of our own inner state; we are seeing ourselves as done to by or at the mercy of … this is the definition of a victim.
Anytime we think, “he made me” … or ” she did it to me” … we are in victim mentality.
For a greater understanding read, “Faces of Victim” “>