Trauma and Manipulation

A neurotic is a traumatized person who is directing all of his energy into making others service his neurosis. Mental issues are a powerful mechanism of transforming reality and bending others to your will.

A responsible, adult individual treats his traumas with a professional or through a variety of mental hygiene means that everybody can individually access.

People who expect others to tiptoe around their traumas are manipulators. They aren’t necessarily doing it consciously but that doesn’t change the result.

By playing into this charade and assisting a neurotic in making his trauma somebody else’s problem, we become complicit in this manipulation.