The Strange Stockholm Syndrome: A Warped Brain Reaction

Stockholm Syndrome is defined as the psychological response to life threatening fear. This is a good example of traumatic brainwashing. Stockholm syndrome happens when a person has been taken captive and has given up hope of escape. They are isolated, desperate and afraid for their life or well being so they try to keep their tormentor happy, to stay alive. There is such relief that they become overly grateful for the smallest kindness that is shown to them. After about 3 or 4 days or more of this "pleasing" behavior under such frightening circumstances the psyche becomes warped until the captive begins to feel sympathy for the captor, feeling pity for him. Sometimes feelings go even deeper. There is no question that developing this syndrome is very confusing and has lasting effects on the victim.

When the victim is released they may claim that the perpetrator is a good person and really treated them well, maybe even refusing to cooperate with police authorities or testify against the criminal. The first documented case of Stockholm syndrome involved a kidnapping of Kristin Ehnemark during a bank robbery. She later tried to defend her kidnapper during arrest and trial.

There is speculation that Stockholm syndrome could be to blame in other situations as well. For example, the battered spouse that stays with her abuser and defends him. Child abuse is another possibility, also holocaust and cult victims. All these people stay in bad situations and defend those that have hurt them or caused them harm. In Stockholm victims, the mind wants so badly to survive it causes false feelings of bonding with the captor. Even feeling affection and pledging loyalty out of that fear. It is actually nothing more than a coping mechanism, perhaps to quiet fear and preserve their sanity. Women have even had romantic relationships with the same men that held them against their will, raped, or abused them. There are many suspected cases of this syndrome in the past and not so long ago, of women, children, and hostages claiming their captor was a good man. Survivors of such ordeals can have a long difficult recovery and will classically deny and minimize the severity of what happened to them. Others might recover quite quickly once away from their brainwasher.

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