on "Stockholm Syndrome", psychiatric power abuse, acab 

didn't want to hijack someone else's post, so here we go

twitter.com/sezmohammed/status has excerpts from a book explaining this in detail

the tl;dr is that Stockholm syndrome was based around the woman trusting her hostage taker more than the police, as that police was a way bigger danger storming in with guns

and the ""diagnosis"" was made without even interviewing the woman in question, but just as a way to silence her, because obviously one should always side with the cops /s

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on "Stockholm Syndrome", psychiatric power abuse, acab 

it's now fully integrated into popular culture/language, but the first woman who was accused of having it had *good reason to trust her captor more*

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