What is trauma bonding?

Answer 1

The trauma bond is one of those terms that gets associated with Narcissism but again can be found in any abusive situation. It is sort of like Stockholm syndrome but different. Usually the person suffering from the trauma bond has had some trauma in their childhood which makes them more susceptible to this type of relationship. It is characterized by extreme highs and extreme lows. When the abuser is happy and times are great the person feels like there on cloud 9. They are getting lots of natural hormones injected into them through natural processes so they get dopamine, they get norepenephrine, serotonin, oxytocin. When times are bad they get cortisol and adrenaline. These extreme highs and lows releasing extreme amounts of the hormones actually becomes addictive. So people can become addicted to the abusive relationship. Now, the person generally has low self-esteem as well so they can get hooked also into that pattern of trying desperately to get affirmation and acceptance and validation from their abuser who has no intention on really giving them many thing. These things can create a very powerful and inescapable almost like a gravity well or a black hole for that victim to try to escape from that abusive relationship. They literally feel like their soul is being torn up from them in trying to leave. Like as if they were leaving the world's biggest addiction. It's the reason why so many people look at an abusive relationship and say why doesn't she just leave or why doesn't he just leave, they can't. It's not that simple. They have to fight this massive addiction and this behavioral adjustment that they've been put through which makes them dependent on that abuser for emotional reasons or for even physical or financial.

Answer 2

Form of mind control perfected by the Nazis later carried out by the US government through Project Monarch a sub program of MK-Ultra.