Stockholm Syndrome: In foreign countries, many types of movies are often made on kidnapping. Such movies in which the heroine falls in love with her kidnapper. In Bollywood too, Alia Bhatt’s movie Highway was released in which Alia falls in love with her kidnapper Randeep Hooda.
Falling in love with your kidnapper or someone who hurts you is indeed surprising but it is a medical condition called Stockholm syndrome. Let us know about this strange mental condition today.
What is Stockholm Syndrome?
Stockholm syndrome is a medical condition in which a person starts sympathizing and loving the person who kidnaps him, torments him, holds him hostage or dominates him. You must be wondering how one can love and be attached to the person who is kidnapping him. But this is true, in fact, in this mental state, a person gets emotionally attached to his kidnapper, so much so that he starts loving him and wants to live with him.
If we look closely, this medical condition can apply to both the kidnapper and the kidnapped person. Sometimes the kidnapper develops an attachment to the captive and sometimes the captive develops an attachment to the kidnapper. This happens when the kidnapper keeps the captive alive and takes proper care of him instead of killing or harassing him.
The victim and the kidnapper get emotionally attached
Let us tell you that this syndrome was named by Swedish psychologist Nils Bejerot. Medical experts say that when a kidnapped person stays with someone for a long time, positive emotions start developing between the kidnapper and the kidnapped person while living together.
If the kidnapped person is already suffering from PTSD, anxiety, and depression, then this syndrome takes over quickly. The kidnapped person feels that the person who kidnapped him is keeping him alive and is taking care of him. In fact, this is a psychological reaction that arises in loneliness, which affects both.
Risks of Stockholm Syndrome
Stockholm syndrome is dangerous for the mental health of any person. In this, the behavior of the person changes and he can do anything to save the kidnapper. The victim is unable to recognize his freedom, his thoughts and his existence properly and he becomes loyal to the kidnapper and is ready to do anything.
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