Posts Tagged ‘stress’
Stockholm Syndrome – What is it?
The stress inducted when taken hostage has a significant psychological impact and may lead the hostage to alter their behavior. This unexpected behavior displayed by a hostage of aligning themselves with the hostage taker. This unusual phenomenon has been termed the “Stockholm Syndrome”.
I have also attached the Wikipedia.org definition for information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
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Stress Management – Keep faith with fellow captives / hostages
When held captive / hostage, another area that can be difficult and may cause stress is keeping faith with the captors. One of the most important sources of strength is to maintain faith with your fellow captives (if there are other captives). Your captors may attempt to break you down physically or psychologically to their advantage and prevent you from having a strong bond with your fellow captives.
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Stress Management – Maintain your faith
Maintaining your faith can go a long way toward reducing stress. Folks that have a faith base, seem to do better in captive / hostage situations than folks that do not.
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Stress Management – Talking through issues
Stress management can sometimes require talking through situations. If held as a captive / hostage, it can become necessary to talk through issues in order to relieve stress. One way to do this can be to verbally talk yourself down by speaking to yourself slowly, reassuring yourself. The act of speaking slowly and deliberately forces you to slow down and can help you think more clearly. The same principle can work with writing our your thoughts as you speak them, thus making you slow down and possibly helping to calm yourself. This can be a way of helping to manage your stress.
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Stress Management – Mental Attitude
This point is one I cannot stress enough and one of the hardest to accomplish. When being held captive or hostage, which can be the same thing. maintaining a positive mental attitude can be one of the most critical things you can do. With a positive mental attitude, your chances of survival are much more favorable.
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Stress Management – Humor
Maintaining your sense of humor can greatly aid in times of stress, such as being held captive or hostage. If you need something to help you here, perhaps thinking of being in a job you may not like and working with someone you would rather not work with. In these times, humor can sometimes be the best way to get through it. Perhaps giving nicknames to your captors or making jokes. One good way to think of it is this, you are still alive and the “bad guys” want you alive, or you would not be held captive or hostage. So, make the best of the situation and keep your sense of humor. Remember Tom Hanks in the movie Cast Away, I believe it was. He actually developed a relationship with a soccer ball. It helped him keep his sanity and sense of humor. So, yes, humor can do a lot to help.
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Stress Management – Sleep discipline
Believe it or not, there is such a thing as getting too much sleep. If taken captive / hostage, a person should try to maintain a proper awake / sleep schedule. Getting too much sleep can actually do more harm than good.
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Stress Management / Physical conditioning
For those who may not be aware, physical conditioning is good for stress management. First, you should try to keep yourself in reasonable physical condition anyway. If you were to be taken captive / hostage, physical conditioning can be literally life saving. If you are not already, getting into a physical conditioning routine can do wonders for your stress level.
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Handle Stress with Confidence
If taken hostage, a key to your survival can be by maintaining your confidence that you will survive with honor, believing that authorities will rescue you and to maintain faith in your family and your faith.
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