Victim mentality is the settled habit of interpreting life through the lens of one's own victimization. Real victimization exists and must be taken seriously: real oppression, real abuse, real injustice, real disability. Scripture commands us to defend the fatherless, plead for the widow, and care for the oppressed. But victim mentality is something different — a posture that makes victimhood the primary lens through which one interprets all of life and sees all responsibility as belonging to others. In its pathological form, it produces: (1) Learned helplessness — the conviction that one cannot change one's situation, so there is no point trying. (2) Externalized blame — every failure is someone else's fault. (3) Moral superiority — victimhood itself confers virtue. (4) Resistance to correction — any rebuke is reframed as further oppression. (5) Arrested development — the victim is permanently the child in the story, never the adult. Scripture takes a very different approach. It acknowledges real wrongs done to us and commands us to forgive. It tells Joseph, sold into slavery by his brothers, to say at the end of the story: "You meant evil against me; but God meant it for good" (Genesis 50:20). It tells Paul, repeatedly imprisoned and beaten, to press on "forgetting those things which are behind" (Philippians 3:13). It tells the recently delivered to take responsibility for their new life: "Go, and sin no more" (John 8:11). The Bible knows real suffering intimately — but it refuses to let suffering become an identity. The sufferer is always first a child of God, an image-bearer, an agent with responsibilities and a future. Victim mentality is the refusal of that grace.