I’ve answered this indirectly in other writings, but as a
subject that repeatedly comes up in the manga, it deserves its own post.

This is one thing that I’ve always been careful with, given
that labels like Stockholme Syndrome are loosely thrown around in the fandom.
Thing is, the underling situation doesn’t quite fit the medical definition of
SS. It’s certainly not a healthy
situation, though, and I have no problem clearing that up in the future. Point
is, it doesn’t do any good to attribute serious conditions like that, especially
since these exaggerations result in gross misrepresentations of the characters.

PTSD, on the other hand, is something that the nations have
canonically been shown to have real symptoms of, right to the nail of the medical
definition.

Post coming up tonight.