Victimage

To enter the swirl or to be overcome by a swirl experience is to become a victim.; even if it would seem that an individual has become a victim of themselves or a destructive part of themselves. The difficulty in dealing with this is, in part, the difficulty in dealing with or accepting a self description of victim. And that is difficult because that label is frowned upon, deprecated in our society. Now I am not sure how widespread this is, to what extent this is a western phenomenon. But i can not count the number of times a client or friend has said something like, "I'm not a victim, you know..." And it has always seemed to me that something important is being denied here.
And if we take the refusal to regard self as a victim into the swirl experience then maybe that might account for the intensity of the space. So maybe the demand to face it might be a demand not to appear as victim. But if one is victim then that is a denial, a foolish one that might indeed increase the power of the swirl. But to not face it does not entail turning one's back on it, which is impossible anyway.
So maybe one way of dealing with it involves acknowledging what it seems the swirl experience is expressing. I am not sure if this is the same as accepting it. Maybe it is.
Another thought, that possibly the swirl experience needs a relational other to help alleviate its intensity.