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Along river Jehlum, near Ghari Dupatta Azad Kashmir, we find many tarrice like rice fields like these.
The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity — even under the most difficult circumstances — to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal.
- Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
“They weren’t bad people. They let me eat, they let me sleep, they gave me my life”
— A hostage from TWA Flight 847, June 1985
The Stockholm Syndrome comes into play when a captive cannot escape and is isolated and threatened with death, but is shown token acts of kindness by the captor.
A strategy of trying to keep your captor happy in order to stay alive becomes an obsessive identification with the likes and dislikes of the captor which has the result of warping your own psyche in such a way that you come to sympathize with your tormenter.
The syndrome can also be used to understand the behavior of battered spouses, members of religious cults, etc.