Suicide seemed to me the greatest kind of freedom, a release from everything, from a life that had been ruined a long time ago.

~ Natascha Kampusch

Natascha Kampusch Freedom Release Suicide

That day wasn't the first time I had attempted suicide. Simply disappearing into the distant nothingness where there was no pain and no more feelings - back then I thought it an act of empowerment. Otherwise I had very little power to make any decisions about my life, my body, my actions. Taking my own life seemed my last trump card.

~ Natascha Kampusch

Natascha Kampusch Depression Despair Hostage Kidnapped Kidnapping Powerless Powerlessness Suicidal Suicide Suicide Attempt Trauma Victim

And the victim must have been broken and must remain so, so that the externalization of evil is possible. The victim who refuses to assume this role contradicts society's simplistic view. Nobody wants to see it. People would have to take a look at themselves.

~ Natascha Kampusch

Natascha Kampusch Evil Evil Men Evil People Externalize Society Denial Society Thinking Stockholm Syndrome Trauma Bonding Victim Victim Role

people do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection

~ Natascha Kampusch

Natascha Kampusch Believe Court Crime Disbelief Empathy Judgmental Lack Of Empathy Society Denial Survivors Trial Victims

...victims of violent crime are not always believed...[referring to victim testimony at serial killer and pedophile Marc Detroux's trial]

~ Natascha Kampusch

Natascha Kampusch Believe Court Crime Disbelief Society Denial Trial Victims

We live in a world in which women are battered and are unable to flee from the men who beat them, although their door is theoretically standing wide open. One out of every four women becomes a victim of severe violence. One out of every two will be confronted by sexual harassment over her lifetime. These crimes are everywhere and can take place behind any front door in the country, every day, and barely elicit much more than a shrug of the shoulders and superficial dismay.

~ Natascha Kampusch

Natascha Kampusch Battered Battered Women Batterers Crime Domestic Violence Intimate Partner Violence Rape Sexual Assault Sexual Violence Society Denial

Our society needs criminals like Wolfgang Priklopil in order to give a face to the evil that lives within and to split it off from ... It needs the images of cellar dungeons so as not to have to see the many homes in which violence rears its conformist, bourgeois head. Society uses the victims of sensational cases such as mine in order to divest itself of the responsibility for the many nameless victims of daily crimes, victims nobody helps – even when they ask for help.

~ Natascha Kampusch

Natascha Kampusch Abduction Crime Criminals Domestic Violence Famous Rapists Help Kidnappers Rapists Responsibility Sensationalist Society Denial Stranger Rape Survivors Victims Wolfgang Priklopil