- Being afraid or ashamed.
- Not feeling good about oneself; self-hatred.
- Thinking you are beyond help, or not knowing where to go for help.
- Thinking you have to sort this problem out on your own, but not knowing how to do it, which keeps you stuck.
- Various kinds of pessimistic thinking.
- Lack of understanding from the community, and a lack of encouragement to seek help.
- Debasing and de-humanising portrayal of offenders by the media which feeds the cycle of violence through scapegoating and driving offenders underground from fear.
