Etymologically speaking, the word Amok is understood as Furiously engaging in battle. The person suffering from this syndrome feels an intense anger and rage that leads him to commit against any person or animal present, then try to commit suicide. This person, when in acute attack, He does not know the dialogue or reasons, and the only way to stop it is usually to immobilize it.Otherwise, he will continue to attack everything that crosses his path.The episode can be accompanied by a varied symptomatology, which commonly includes: depression, amnesia , paranoid ideas and exhaustion.
In the beginning, Amok syndrome was associated with cases that occurred exclusively in Malaysia, however, with the passage of time this syndrome has been "deculturizing", this It is, separating itself from its initial context to present itself in other scenarios. And, after all, these cases respond more to a specific cultural situation than to specific geographical boundaries.But what then defines the syndrome of Amok? In what contexts is it given and why? Let's find out.
2.A potential Guason
For Ines Geipel, a German professor and researcher who has dedicated herself to studying this syndrome, Amok syndrome is not something with what that should be played.In fact, I dedicate a whole book to this topic, in which he presented 5 cases that I investigate in depth, going to the place where the events had occurred and talking with both the victims and those nearby to the perpetrator. She was the first to see in this madness a phenomenal killer not dangerously global, which was becoming more common in different areas.
Determined to study it, after deeply investigating the issue Geipel concluded that the people who presented the Amok syndrome have a similar profile , not only in how they lead their daily lives but in their role within society and in how they interact within the spaces they inhabit."Many suffered bullying at school.The least have a friend," said the writer.In addition to this, the German researcher points out that they are usually withdrawn people who, although from well-off families, feel a lot of family pressures to achieve great things. They feel, also, without identity, as if they themselves did not exist or were simply a barrel of other people's expectations that cannot be filled with anything. In addition, the writer emphasizes that this syndrome usually affects people who they are people with a very low level of affectivity.
"It's not that these young people don't have emotions.But little by little they isolate their affectivity," he explains.However, he also points out that you have to make an effort not to stigmatize people who suffer from Amok syndrome , after all, as a good cultural syndrome, it is not the fault of a specific person, but of a situation that can exceed the person.
Imaginem the case: a boy, say, 15 years, whose parents are probably too busy to meet their needs but, nevertheless, always find the time to impose their pressures, a precarious social life within a school where he only receives ill-treatment: it is the mockery of the classroom or the talk of the whole school. In addition, and this is a feature in which the author emphasizes, they are people commonly branded as eccentric, probably for walking in that search of the lost identity, trying to decipher who they are.It doesn't seem like a scenario too kind for anyone.
Then, one day, any day, when nobody expects it, it explodes.Look for the possibilities, get what He has at hand, perhaps the weapon that an irresponsible father left in sight, when not an entire arsenal, and, with a cloudy mind, unable to think of anything other than to satisfy the anger that is overflows, launches into the attack. It is there when the Amok syndrome is usually identified, when, unfortunately, it is already too late.
3.From victim to victimizer
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