Can you imagine having that amount of control over someone? To brutalize them, hurt them over and over again, and then, due to some random acts of kindness, they're in love with you? What about the victim, being under that mind control? How does it work?

I couldn't ever do that to anyone in the first place, though.  I've never--I am rarely a violent person, but I can easily see myself submitting to someone like that.  Easily, and that scares me.

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Bitches, I'm back. Miss me much?

Hopefully, probably* is what I meant.

I've watched a few documentaries on captives that have used Stockholm Syndrome faking to their advantage.

Post edited at 8:32 pm on July 29, 2008 by The Raven

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I have always told myself that if I am ever kidnapped or raped, I will fake Stockholm Syndrome for the benefit of it probably saving my life.

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Oh my gosh, I was watching dateline, and this one girl did that, and it saved her life. She was 14, and the guy picked her up from her bus stop, saying that he was a police officer, and her brother was in trouble. Well, he kept her in this underground bunker and sexually abused her for 10 days.  She could hear the searchers foot steps above her, looking for her, but she couldn't scream or anything 'cause he would kill her. She pretended that she was in love with him and that she wanted him.

Well, she would steal his phone at night and try to send text messages to her mom, and one of those messages actually reached her mom.  The guy had a TV in his bunker, and it was all over the news, and she kept saying that they were coming for him and that she thought he should leave because she didn't want him to get hurt or whatever, and she just played him.  It worked, and he left, and she got away, and he was caught. Happy ending.

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Bitches, I'm back. Miss me much?

I can see myself submitting to something like that. If not accidentally but in order to save my life, like said above. I've always been fascinated by the concept.

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If I were an enzyme I'd be DNA helicase so I could unzip your genes.


I wanna be a Swami

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Why the hell is it a "disability" or "disorder". If someone takes me hostage, sure i'm gonna be pissed off at them, but if I find out that their cause is noble and actually they're a really great person, and it's really nothing personal, why am I suddenly mentally disabled if I decide I like them?

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That wouldn't be Stockholm Syndrome. That would be logically and reasonably changing your mind. The difference is that Stockholm Syndrome isn't logical.

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Let yourself be enchanted,
You just might break through
To ever ever after

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Quote: from The Raven at 11:31 pm on July 29, 2008

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I have always told myself that if I am ever kidnapped or raped, I will fake Stockholm Syndrome for the benefit of it probably saving my life.  

 

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Oh my gosh, I was watching dateline, and this one girl did that, and it saved her life. She was 14, and the guy picked her up from her bus stop, saying that he was a police officer, and her brother was in trouble. Well, he kept her in this underground bunker and sexually abused her for 10 days. She could hear the searchers foot steps above her, looking for her, but she couldn't scream or anything 'cause he would kill her. She pretended that she was in love with him and that she wanted him.

Well, she would steal his phone at night and try to send text messages to her mom, and one of those messages actually reached her mom. The guy had a TV in his bunker, and it was all over the news, and she kept saying that they were coming for him and that she thought he should leave because she didn't want him to get hurt or whatever, and she just played him. It worked, and he left, and she got away, and he was caught. Happy ending.

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Hats off to you . . Could'nt be done any better . . To be able to endure that long and still be able to keep her mind, thats a feat few can perform. . .

But anyways, I've heard that it happens in some ways because the perpetrator is actually doing something about whatever thing they are unhappy with, and not to mention, they themselves have been hurt in order for them to resort to such action. I could imagine sympathizing with a murderer despite the fact that I know its an outright insane reaction - but the person is still human, if we were to go through the exact same things they did in life, we may understand why they did such a thing . . Thats when sympathy comes in. .

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The key to victory is the element of surprise.
When that doesn't work, I guess I just gotta gun you down.

They form close emotional bonds with those men, and very often the two end up sharing life secrets.

I remember in the novel 'Black Beauty' there was an intriguing paragraph of how one develops a fondness for the tormentor.

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Punctured bicycle on a hillside, desolate,
Could nature make a man of me yet?