What happens when a simple maintenance issue turns into a battle over time, control, and accountability?
In this story, I look at DARVO in the housing sector. DARVO isn’t just personal. Systems use it too
In particular, I describe how a legitimate complaint can be turned back on the person making it, and how bureaucracy and “procedure” becomes yet another form of pressure.
When system disorganisation and contractors repeatedly change appointments, it’s already bad enough.
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However, when the housing body responds with even more demands instead of less, the original issue can disappear behind a smokescreen and questions of compliance. It is transfer of accountability onto the complainant.
This story is about the erosion of autonomy, victim-blaming, and the slow reversal of problems, which happen when systems protect themselves instead of taking responsibility.
It is institutional DARVO in slow motion.
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