“Manic behavior is characterized by a sustained period of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, intense energy, racing thoughts, and other extremes and exaggerated behaviors. People can experience psychosis {see “Mask{s} of Psychosis this site}, including hallucinations and delusions, which indicate a separation from reality.” – verywellmind.com
I was at my Wendy’s restaurant last week and immediately noticed my favorite server was not wearing a mask. I was stunned. I told her I didn’t think I had ever seen her without her mask! She told me I hadn’t because she began working there in March of last year. I told her it was a crime to hide such a dazzling smile that matched her eyes. She told me several younger women working there had taken off their masks when corporate gave the ok – then put them back on because they didn’t feel comfortable without it. “Mission Accomplished!” I said. The Left had successfully brainwashed the majority of the American public. She also said customers still wearing masks when they don’t have to look with scorn at her for not wearing one. Folks this is scary times for us normal people.
The Left are masters at psychological warfare. Using a normal flu season to politically manufacture hysteria has had its desired results. What was previously known as the Stockholm Syndrome has morphed into Manic Mask Syndrome. “Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological response occurring when hostages or abuse victims (both in the case of COVID hysteria) bond with with their captors or abusers. This psychological connection develops over the course of the days, weeks, months, or even years of captivity or abuse. Victims develop “positive” feelings toward their captors and sympathy for their causes and goals, and negative feelings toward the police or authorities [or people with common sense who see through the BS]. These symptoms often follow the escaped victims back into their previously normal lives.” – wikipedia. It helps when our “captors” throw other peoples’ money at us simply because we breed and don’t work.
The most famous “victim” of Stockholm Syndrome was Patty Hearst, granddaughter of wealthy newspaper mogul Randolph Hearst. She was kidnapped by the “Symbionese Liberation Army”, a black domestic terrorist organization, in 1974. She spent 19 months with her captors (allegedly much of it locked in a closet) joining them in their criminal acts before she was captured by the FBI.
Like 98% of PTSD and many other pity-party “syndromes” Manic Mask Syndrome is really a conscious choice by snowflakes – a desire to hang on to the attention and sympathy. Coining this fictitious malady doesn’t mean it won’t eventually get federal funding for a disability exploding Social Security even more than the rampant fraud it already has.
“The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) does not contain the term Stockholm Syndrome as many believe it falls under the equally fallacious PTSD – imagined up by Berkeley anti-Vietnam War professors (read Stolen Valor). A research group led by Namnyak has found that although there is a lot of media coverage of Stockholm, there has not been a lot of research into the phenomenon. What little has been done is contradictory. The term has grown beyond kidnappings to all definitions of abuse. There is no clear definition of symptoms or diagnose the syndrome.” That hasn’t stopped politicians from vomiting our taxes to snowflakes claiming it.
“A 1998 report by the FBI containing over 1,200 hostage incidents found that only 8% of kidnapping victims showed signs of Stockholm syndrome. When victims who showed negative and positive feelings toward the law enforcement are excluded, the percentage drops to 5%. A survey of 600 police agencies in 1989, performed by the FBI and the University of Vermont, found not a single case when emotional involvement between the victim and the kidnapper interfered with or jeopardized an assault. In short, this database provides empirical support that the Stockholm Syndrome remains a rare occurrence. The sensational nature of dramatic cases causes the public to perceive this phenomena as the rule rather than the exception. …although depicted in fiction and film and often referred to by the media, the phenomenon actually occurs rarely.”
“Robbins and Anthony (1982) assert that media attention to brainwashing during this time resulted in the “fluid” reception of Stockholm Syndrome as a [legitimate] psychological condition.”
Jess Hill (2019) described the syndrome as a “dubious pathology with no diagnostic criteria”, and stated it is “riddled with misogyny and founded on a lie” as it applies to domestic violence. She also noted that a 2008 literature review revealed that “most diagnosis [of Stockholm Syndrome] are made by the media, not by psychologists or psychiatrists.”
In my opinion, most people voluntarily wearing masks do so for the same reason most military personnel wear ribbons on their chests. It has nothing to do with the flu, patriotism or “for others’ benefit.”
“[COVID Hysterics] lack the head of the philosopher, the heart of a philanthropist, and the courage of a hero. But even voluntary fools require our compassion as much as natural idiots.” – Thaddeus Stevens, Education as a Public Duty, April 1835; Annals of America, Vol. 6, p. 139
