http://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/mental-disorders/stockholm-syndrome.htm
In all the research I have done about complex trauma, captivity abuse, psychopaths etc, the issue of Stockholm Syndrome has come up many times.
Some of the things I wrote on my healing page, were commented by others as being Stockholm Syndrome. I have always denied this, because it is a huge psychological issue to get your head around.
I wasn’t kidnapped, in the most obvious way, I wasn’t abducted off the street, by a stranger. My captor, who was old enough to be my father, I knew, and the ‘relationship’ began with my consent, however, now I know it was all due to intense and prolonged, meticulous grooming, for considerable time.
This psychopath, planned it and continued with his obsession with me, for a period of years. To cut a long story short, he was a friend of my (abusive) step fathers, and at the point where the psychopath wanted me out of my family home, he had unknown to me, already set up a place for me to live, as he was married and lived with his family. After setting this flat up, he then set my step father up on a gun related charge, that blew the situation out in the open, that I had secretly been having a relationship with him, for some time. Continue reading
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