Have we become a nation of 'jurosomatic' Victims, with Victimhood being the national pastime?

I was disappointed by this article. I hope the intent of the author was not to devalue or attack individuals who have truly suffered. I thought it was irresponsible to say that individuals who suffer from headaches or back pain are less deserving of disability than others. First, the headaches could be a consequence of anything from severe migraines to cancer. Back pain could be a consequence of degenerative discs, fiber myalgia, multiple sclerosis, or other very serious illnesses. The article also fails to consider that as the baby boomer generation has more people than other generations and they worked longer than their preceding generations and many are applying for disability because of injuries/illnesses they suffer close to retirement, but too early to collect social security. Individuals in that situation must apply for disability. I doubt people with illness or disability decided to get sick/disabled for attention. Stating things like "people benefit from being a victim" is toxic. It suggests that anyone who is a victim of anything including violent crime seeks redress for attention. I did not like how the author uses celebrities as examples to support his generalization that victims want attention and moral status. The examples were lacking because they appear to be instances where celebrities should have used another word instead of victim. The article would have been stronger if it was about how people sometimes throw around the word victim inappropriately because it harms victims who are already in a vulnerable position by diluting what happened to them.

Lol, people just look for something to claim they are a victim now days. Seems these last few generations have nothing better to do than cry and whine about something.

I have a hard time with this one, as I know people that should be on disability who choose not to be or who have tried to for very clear reasons, but have been denied. Pretenders mess the program up for everyone, but treating everyone like a pretender isn't fair at all.