STOCKHOLM Syndrome
Stockholm syndrome is when hostages develop positive feelings toward their captors during a crisis, often as a survival mechanism. It’s not always about genuine love, it’s more like psychological coping, where victims bond with captors to reduce fear or gain a sense of control.
Named after a 1973 bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden, where hostages defended the robbers. It happens in extreme stress when captives rely on or plead with captors for basic needs, leading to empathy or loyalty.
It’s rare, but can show up in prolonged hostage situations or abusive dynamics.
INDESCRIBABLE AGONY
Was I ever held under captivity?
Pictured, captioned; I know what you did to me
Response: Actioned
There’s too many people protecting me
Too much work you made me do for free
Too much footage obtained non-consensually and distributed illegally
Too many years I should have spent free
Too many years you will serve paying it back to be
Too many times you thought you could end it all by ending me
Too many elements you calculated maliciously, heinously and most importantly you did it all intentionally
Barricaded me into a position where I would never be allowed to leave
Where no one believed me because you crafted it like that purposefully
I spent years in solidarity, while you laughed and called me crazy
Too many, too many, too many
One too many strikes for me
There’s one too many stripes on me
I can’t even look at an animation and not see a piece of me
Looking at it all, seriously how on earth did you do what you did to me?
At twenty?