“Injustice Collecting" Does Not Help an Employee

If a person indulges in collecting injustices against himself or herself, and reciting them to anyone who seems willing to listen—it rubs others the wrong way!

If an employee has this trait, interacting with co-workers, supervisors, and clients/customers becomes even more difficult than for an employee who lacks this trait but still has a psychiatric disability. (Indeed, in this day and age of blanket media coverage of mass shooting rampages, many listening may fear that such a person may be about to commit such a criminal spree.) While of course seasoned forensic psychiatrists are unable to predict violence in the workplace or elsewhere with any accuracy to speak of, co-workers and supervisors may think that they can.

People most likely to be injustice collectors are those with paranoid features and, in some instances, those with PTSD.

(Those who in groups proclaim injustice against themselves as a group, being a minority of some kind, have no difficulty maintaining gregarious presence in the workplace or in greater society. Unless an individual identifying with such a group happens to be a person with a psychiatric disability that includes paranoia, or in some instances, PTSD, he or she will have no more difficulty “getting along” than any of his or her peers. That is to say about a person with a psychiatric disability free of paranoia or PTSD, he or she will be able to get along to the extent that [s]he has a good socialization history.)

It would be helpful in programs designed for vocational rehabilitation of people with psychiatric disabilities to discourage the trait of injustice collecting.