"The adult survivor of abuse enacting the Victim-Rescuer-Perpetrator triangle is emotionally locked into the child logic of the locus of control shift.  The core belief, 'I am bad,' gives license to play victim (bad things happen to me because I am bad) or perpetrator (I am bad because I do bad things)  rescuer (I am all powerful and so if I try hard enough I can make everything right in my world)." -"Trauma Model Therapy: A Treatment Approach for Trauma, Dissociation and Complex Comorbidity"- Colin A Ross,, M.D., and Naomi Halpern, CQSW.