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When faced with chronic abuse, there are five basic responses to the threat. There's fight and flight, but there's also freeze, attach, and submit. Sometimes, an abuser may view a victim walking tall or seeming confident as an act of provocation and retaliate. Therefore, a victim may learn to exhibit more submissive behavior, to show they're not a threat and to minimize the damage the abuser might otherwise do. Low self-esteem is not some kind of inherent deficit—it's a tool that victims use to survive.
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