If you’re determined to be a victim, then go for it — go all the way to the end of the track, i.e.:
- Ask for help, and accept it when it comes, but abandon it as insufficient as soon as you can.
- Be fully transparent, expose your psychological/emotional pain right alongside and equal to your physical discomfort.
- Discuss all of it at great length, ignore all efforts to change the subject.
- If you begin to lose some of your audience, increase your efforts, go into greater detail. Whine a little.
- Say, “Yes, but…,” to all your would-be rescuers, until they all give up in frustration.
- Begin all over again with new would-be rescuers. They abound in this world.
