I don't think your examples are quite parallel to the original?
If a person goes running, and goes through a bad area, and is mugged, will she be fearful of being mugged again?
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Women may feel more concerned than men walking on a deserted street, but when it comes to robbery the “purse-snatcher” stereotype doesn’t hold true. Robbers are significantly more likely to target men than women—the annual odds are 1 in 296.8 for men versus 1 in 689.8 for women.
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Book of Odds - Your Money or Your Life: Robbery Odds
If a person hires a contractor and he collects money claiming the job is done, and it isn't, (why didn't you check to see if it was done before paying him the last amount?), is the homeowner likely to think the next contractor might rip her off should she need work done again?
The problem with "victim mentality" that I see is associating the one, "freak" incident with all situations where that incident could, technically, happen again. It's a projection of sorts. You have a car accident and get PTSD and won't ride in cars. That's an extreme and PTSD is often not something you can help but look at it from the eyes of a Vet that comes home and drives in the middle of the road because he knows in the war zone the IED is by the side of the road. To me, in a sense, "victim mentality" is any time you cannot look at a current situation without the blinders of a bad, previous situation.
Yes, this situation may be a bad situation and you don't want to chance it but you don't start with the assumption that that will be the case until you have looked at all that is there. It may
look like a previous situation at first glance, but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and you have to be able to tell the situations apart. You can't do that if a cigar is a penis every time.