
- I believe that hostages and victims of abuse do sometimes bond with their abusers and captors, yes.
But I don't consider "Stockholm syndrome" a standalone clinical phenomenon.
It's a lazy umbrella term for a pattern of behaviors typical of various unrelated psychological disorders and conditions lumped together without a solid pathological basis or diagnostic criteria.
Sometimes it's a type of trauma bonding, a side effect of PTSD and sometimes (in fact, I believe most of the times) it's just a rational defensive response in a life-threatening situation.
The fact that it pretty much only happens to women and that it is alleged to happen to multiple hostages at the same time undermines it from a clinical perspective.
I believe in most cases it's a result of natural defense mechanism where the victim tries to gain the captor's favor for the sake of their own safety.
And I believe that sometimes it simply devolves into a legitimate bond due to women's greater capacity for empathy.Is this still revelant?I think it's also because in those situations it's easier to be passive and give the predator whatever it is they want from you. Since most times they could get violent if you don't do as they say. But then after a long time the victim could be dependent on them.
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In the legitimate pathological cases, it's just a type of trauma coping mechanism.
Much in the same vein as denial or self-blame that victims of abuse commonly experience.
The mind of the victim protects itself by normalizing the traumatic experiences or even interprets them as something desirable.
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- As a retired Criminal Profiler and Cop... I can unequivocally state: 'Yes'
My specialty was international human trafficking...
the LONGER the non-consensual captivity,
... the more sexually-focused the Victim's participation (as Stewart crooned: "The first cut is the deepest")
especially provoked to multiple orgasms... the MORE psychologically skewed the Victim's allegiance becomes.
Especially in the Eastern European and Asian brothels; we have confiscated VERY explicit Skinnerian Conditioning 'training. mpg's... upon children as young as seven, convulsing in racked multiple orgasms.
While drug addiction CAN be used to invoke cruel discipline; innate neural chemistry (Dopamine, Serotonin and Oxytocin ) especially upon the impressionable young, are in many ways as addicting as Opium or Heroin.Is this still revelant?Wait, wait, wait...
Are you saying the kids get off to being abused? Like you rescue them from brothels and they go, "no, no, take me back! Those guys loved me!"@Bananaman177 You misunderstand. Brothel conditioning exploits the human mind's innate release of the neurological pleasuring pharmacology of Dopamine, Serotonin (the bonding hormone) and Oxytocin... ALL of which are addictive and have no natural neutralizer except time. To put it in a sensation you'd understand, think of the profound lingering emotional neurological withdrawal 'crash' you feel in a serious romantic break-up. Intuitively you WANT that 'fix' and will do most anything to get back to those hormones. THAT, is the impetus for 'rebound' hook-ups.
For the kids, the longer they're conditioned, the greater their addiction transferring to sexual release with brothel customers. It becomes a 'lifestyle'. Rescued prostitutes refer to it as 'leaving the life'~
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- Yes. Stockholm syndrome is where the victim feels like they have an attachment to the person who captured or threatened them (usually for a very long time). The bad part about this is that the victim may not want to leave the location or let the police take their captor to jail.Is this still revelant?
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1345- Yes it is definitely real. Most victims about 73% are not affected by it. But it exists and hope that you're never in a situation like that because your security, defensive and desire to live skills will kick in and depending on your integrity level a decision will be made for the best course of action.React
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- It's been well documented and some criminals employ it in gangs, but not everyone's brain works the same, so it doesn't work on everyone. It's a tactic where prolonged contact with a capture or forced contact can lead to feelings of sympathy or defense from the captured or exposed. It isn't simply about kidnappings, it's a psychological response to trauma in which the traumatized individual changes from resisting the source of trauma to sympathizing or supporting it.React
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- I think it could be... Not always but I could see it happening with some. If this is the one I'm thinking of... Showing care and help to a person can make them more vulnerable to feeling love for them.React
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- I think Stockholm Syndrome is very real.
If you're a fucking pussy. Or if you have a pussy.
But if somebody fucking kidnaps me or takes me hostage, I'm not going to sympathize with them and be their best friend, I'm going to look for the very first opportunity to break their fucking neck or gouge their fucking eyeballs out. Not sympathize with them and want to help them or whatever else stupid shit.ReactLike
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- There isn't actually really a thing. It's called that, mainly as it fills an otherwise complex problem in psychology literature.
In most cases, people actually tend to fight back - violently - not support, their captors. Look at wars, revolutions and insurgencies. The people didn't support their captors in the end, they killed them.ReactLike
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- Idealizing of perpetrator, belittling of victims, finding irrational reasons for someone's violence and normalization of it, taking guilt from perpetrator and projecting it on victims is common reaction if someone doesn't want to face reality.
I see it every time after Islamic terror attacks in EUReactLike
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- Its natural... check out female solipsism and Stockholm syndrome and how the world was structured initially where the Victor's of battles killed of the men of the loosing city and took all the women... explains why Stockholm syndrome is more prevalent in womenReact
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- It’s real , if you ever dated someone with PTSD or Bi polar disorder then you would easily believe Stockholm syndrome lolReact
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- It has happened before. Thus, it is real. Anything that has occurred at least once, is officially real. Death is real because it has occurred at least once. Drinking a Sprite is real because it has happened at least once.React
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- Obviously it's real. But all movies seem to be romanticizing itReact
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- Anonymous1 yIt's exceptionally real. Just look at all the terrorist attacks committed by Muslims according to the Islamic scriptures and how we sympathize with Islamic values. We are also surprisingly forgiving towards Muslim terrorists returning to Europe and how we continue to increase Islamic immigration and defend Islam. People have Stockholm syndrome for all these people because "Islam critics are soooo rough and rude to those poor misunderstood Muslims".React
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- Its definitely real it been proven but its not the way you see it on tvReact
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- Yes however they have free will. Its no excuse. Women either are useless children and should have no rights OR they are capable adults with free will and thus they need to be held accountable for their actions. NOT BOTH.React
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- It return to old ages when men take women by force and yet they love their men and stayed with themReact
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- Yea, it so real; make interested yet disturbing elements in romantic stories.React
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- I'm pretty sure it has been documented as real, our the term wouldn't just have sprung up from nowhere.React
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- I've Seen it on GAG plenty of times.
in reality only a few times.
i think they just go for poor choices knowingly.ReactLike
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- yeah we're experiencing it right now. we got used to the masks even though they were forced on us and they do nothing xDReact
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- Yea I'm sure it happend before. Its mostly known from movies but there are some real cases like Cameron HookerReact
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- What do you mean is it real? It happens a lot, therefore it's real.React
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