"looked like a true love, but then magically it became the biggest nightmare"
's so that stalking is described by the victims.
But what is it?
Today everyone seems to be the victims of stalking, but the phenomenon can not be dismissed and trivialized.
E 'defined as a "harasser harassing syndrome" but who is the abuser and how to become such, who is the victim and how do you become?
When a relationship ends you feel frustrated, unhappy and the ground seems to be missing underfoot, and so we try in every way to recover what was lost. Most people are so 'in a position, though with regret, to end all abide by the choice of others, which now claims not to love more.
But there are people who do not accept the order and begin to persecute the other, continuing to send letters, cards, text messages and unsolicited articles, continuing threats, written and verbal, physically assaulting the victim and in extreme cases It ends with the killing of the same.
- Rejected
- starved for affection
- incompetent suitor
- affected
- Predator
Although stalking is a crime to cross women are the predominant victims and men the main persecutors. Eighty percent of stalking victims identified by the research were women and twenty percent are men. In 2001
Galeazzi et all have identified three fundamental characteristics so we can talk about stalking:
- The actor's harassment, the stalker, it acts against a person who is designated as a victim under an investment ideoaffettivo, based on a relational situation partly or wholly imagined or real, depending on the personality of departure and contact with reality.
- Stalking occurs through a series of behaviors based on the communication or contact, but in any case characteristics from the repetition, persistence and intrusiveness.
- psychological pressure due to the compulsion of stalker behavior and psychological terrorism carried out, place the victim, stalking victim, in a state of alert, emergency and psychological stress. These experiences may be linked both to the perception of behaviors as persecutors sgradti, intrusive and annoying, that the concern and anguish resulting from fear for their safety.
The victim of stalking is likely to maintain long- of actual injury.
The consequences of stalking in fact, for those who suffer, are often different and have been dragging for a long time threatening to become chronic. Depending on the type of acts and emotions experienced sustained could arise from anxiety and sleeping problems or nightmares, but also flaschback and real pictures of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
In many studies, in addition, it was found that there a "social category at risk stalking" represented by all members of the so-called "helping professions", ie doctors, psychologists, and all sorts of Helper.