Ett stycke jag läste i Jerold Kreismans bok har följt med mig i flera dagar:
When a child is abused, they invariably blame themselves because (consciously or subconsciously) that is the best of the available alternatives. If they blame the adult, they will be terrified by their dependency on incompetents who are unable to take care of them. If they blame no one, pain becomes random and unpredictable and thus even more frightening because they have no hope of controlling it. Blaming themselves makes the abuse easier to understand and therefore possible to control – they can feel that they somehow cause the abuse and so will be able to find a way to end it, or they will give up and accept that they are »bad«. (Kreisman & Straus, 2021, 152)