Many women within the Israelite
community suffer from Stockholm’s syndrome. This is a mental condition that was
studied extensively, and although the expert have not yet come up with an
explanation as to why most of the victims respond in the manner that they do,
when they are affected with this psychological condition. After serious studying
and months of though I have come up with an explanation and an understanding of
the progression of the disease and why it progresses the way it does.
Stockholm syndrome: is a mental
disorder where an individual that was continuously raped over a long period of
time; stop hating their rapist, but began to develop and show administration,
respect and even love for their rapist.
What actually happens in this case
is; the person’s injured mind in its quest for mental survival, to deal with
the traumatic situation of forced sexual violation. One way the person’s and
their mind try to cope with this trauma is; it tries to develop some form of
mechanism to cope with the trauma that has devastated their life. As a result,
the victim goes through several stages, which helps them to cope with the level
of abuse they have experienced.
The objective of their mind is to
find the best mental equilibrium possible. As a result, they go through many
phases in order to get to something as close to normal as possible. In the
initial stages the mind takes the victims through stages such as self-blaming,
a period of shame, denial etc. Then to a stage of numbing where the disgusting
acts no longer affects the person’s mind, they are so helpless to stop or the
torture of rape that their mind and body grow numb. There exist a disconnect
between the body and mind that is resulted from the whole process of being
continuously raped.
We must not forget, all throughout
the continued rape, the mind is searching for a means of mental survival; over
a long period of being continually raped the mind begins to normalize the
inhumane acts. This sick exploitative act, become the victims new normal; the
victim's body is still functional; this type of function is really a
dysfunction. In this world dysfunction is the new normal. The search for a
sense of mental survival and a semblance of normalcy continue throughout the
abuses. We must not forget the body's senses are still working; as a result,
the body began to positively respond to erotic arousal and the sensation of
sexual pleasure that is derived from the continued rape in a positive light. It
is the only bright moment in the person’s life; they do not delight in the
person who is generating these pleasures, not the method uses in generating
these pleasures, but the pleasures themselves.
As a result, of the continued bouts
of rape, the person’s mind continues to adapt to the abuses, as the mind fight
for mental survival. Then, the victim began to associate these pleasures with
their rapist and then move into the phase that is considered Stockholm
syndrome. Where the victim began to associate the pleasures with her rapist and
began to credit him, for the one bright moment in their life; the moment of
sexual pleasure and the affections that comes with such. They often forget, it
was that criminal who hurt then and replace their once, hopeful, optimistic
life with the gloom and doom of depression and suffering.
In Stockholm syndrome the victim's
mind has achieved its objective: mental survival and the closest thing to
normal they can get.
That is why so many extended abuse
and rape goes unreported, and many such victims in their effort to form and
keep conjugal relationships find it so difficult to do so. I will say here
there are other reason that complicates relationship however this is one such
reasons.
The lesson here that each woman who
have been in a prolong situation where she was continually rape, or who was initially
raped and learn to find pleasure in the intimacy that comes from that rapist. Must
be careful not to try to start relationships before they have been cleared as
mentally sufficient to do so. Because they will only be a danger to their
partner and children.
