stockholm syndrome

Many years ago, some people in my area were robbed while fishing in the sea.

The robbers captured three people in the trawler and took them to a deep forest.

The rest of the people came back and reported the incident to the police and a general diary was also kept at the police station.

A few years later, they were not found.

Exactly six years later, police found a robber's hideout in the Sundarbans and raided the place where the three missing persons were found along with other robbers.

They were taken home and asked to testify in court against the remaining robbers.

So that they tell the truth that these robbers abducted them six years ago.

But the strange thing is that these three people did not testify against them, on the contrary, they spoke in support of them.

They said the rest of the robbers had treated them well enough over the years and had developed a cordial relationship.

If one looks closely, it is also clear that the three could have escaped from Astana if they wanted to, and they would occasionally come to the local districts of the Sundarbans coast to market.

Yet they did not escape.

But why?

Just for fear?

Well, even if that had happened, I would have come to these district towns so many times in so many years.

Didn't even try to escape at least once

Or could not inform the police?

This should have been an instinct as a human being.

So where is the problem?

Well, this time I'm solving the problem.

The mental state that prevailed among these three people until 1962

It was called "Capture Bonding Syndrome".

Straight Bengal has a strange good relationship with the kidnappers.

But that is not always the case;

This is seen in very few cases.

However, it would be wrong to say only abduction, because this strange thing has been seen in many other cases.

Such as long-suffering women, children, prisoners of war, or from ancient slavery to many modern-day militants (kidnapped youths who later voluntarily join the kidnapping militants).

Capture Bonding Syndrome was renamed in 1973 through a widely discussed event. 'Stockholm Syndrome'.

On the morning of August 23, 1983, a bank robbery took place in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.

Two robbers took four officials hostage in a bank vault.

Among them 3 were women and one was a man.

131 hours means about six days after they were released from captivity.

But in response to the questions of the journalists, the four surprised everyone.

Because in every word of them there was support and sympathy for the kidnappers.

One of the women even got involved with the kidnapper.

He later started raising money for the release of the abductors.

And from this incident in psychology

The journey of a new page called Stockholm Syndrome begins.

Although medical science has not yet fully identified it as a mental illness, many psychiatrists consider it to be a post-traumatic event.

The main symptoms of Stockholm Syndrome are coexistence, support or sympathy for the abductor.

At the same time, the attitude of the police or other people who are against those criminals.

In 1933, Mary McIlroy, a 25-year-old girl, was abducted by four men.

Mary's father, being a wealthy politician, demanded a ransom of ৬ 60,000 and released her after paying ৩০ 30,000.

Three of their abductors were later arrested and sentenced.

But Mary stood in the court and supported them wholeheartedly.

At the same time, he requested to reduce their punishment.

From then on, Mary regularly visited the inmates and took gifts for them.

Seeing their plight in prison, Mary continues to suffer.

When Mary's father died in 1939, she was devastated.

Mary committed suicide on January 21, 1940.

Her suicide note read,

"My four kidnappers are probably the only people on Earth who don't consider me an utter fool."

So far many books have been written about Stockholm Syndrome, and many movies have been made.

Popular movie 'Highway' starring Randeep Huda and Alia Bhatt

But it also supports the Stockholm Syndrome issue.

Simply put, almost all of us have seen such events, whether in movies or in books.

In Bengali film, the hero kidnaps the heroine and later they have a relationship.

When the father of the heroine was finally brought by the police, it was seen that the girl was supporting the kidnapper hero.

These things are quite familiar to us, we just never had time to look into them or think deeply about them.

However, Lucy Christopher in her book 'Stolen: A letter to my captor' makes a great statement about Stockholm Syndrome,

"And it's hard to hate someone, once you understand them."

- Stockholm Syndrome: A strange mental stat.