Toxic Experiences Some among us are victims of events where there is no mix of positive and negative experiences—only the overwhelmingly negative—experiences of extremes of intimidation and humiliation. Tomkins offers a brief discussion of the scripts that tend to be lived out by such victims. Reading his account, I was struck by the loss of narrative options for these victims.555 No utopian quests. No hope of remediation. Mostly scripts of damage-limitation.
