I posted recently to another post about it being easy to play the perpetual victim. This is not just a recovery thing. I see it everywhere these days.
It's much easier to put the blame of ones situation on external things than to look inward and take control and responsibility. I know I have been guilty and still have to work hard on stepping back when things don't go my way.
I'm not saying that people don't go through horrible situations that have major negative effects on their psychological well being. But if you spend your entire life dwelling on it in a woe is me pity party, you'll never move forward. It's why I don't like the concept of being in recovery for life. Your always blaming some outside force when it always only came from within yourself.