From the course: Persecutors, Victims, and Rescuers: How to Deal with Psychological Games Players
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Remain adult
From the course: Persecutors, Victims, and Rescuers: How to Deal with Psychological Games Players
Remain adult
- So, we've talked about the options of walking away or staying there and living with it. And while we're talking about relatively passive options, before we get to fighting back, option three is to remain adult. I like option three. I think it's well worth considering. And this is where you remain adult, but you do participate a little bit in the game. So you ask for evidence, you ask why they feel like that. And it's particularly good for victim games. So for example, suppose you've got somebody playing kick me and they go, "Oh, I'm hopeless." You can say to them, "Well, are you saying you're unhappy about your performance?" And if they go, "Well, yeah, I am really." You can say, "So what are you going to do about it?" Or, you know, "What plans have you looked at?" Or if you've got a brown stamp collector going, "Oh, it's so unfair." You could say, "Well, what are you going to do about it?" So what we're…
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