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In all seriousness, it's super fucked up how there's literally no "right" response for this. How is he supposed to react when he's getting picked on if the options he has are both wrong in his parents' eyes?
He is trained to be helpless. 100% sure they neither know what exactly they are doing, nor what it means for him, but it is what he is learning. It's called "learned helplessness".
Let's get a small course in Psychology 101, shall we?
It was a little experiment, a guy called Seligman was doing with dogs.
Place a dogge in a cage, apply a shock to the floor, dogge will jump on the other half. Done.
But now, leash the dog to the side of the cage, so he cant jump. If he tries it, he only strangles himself, so he learns he cant do anything to avoid the shocks, gives up and crouches down. When you now remove the leash and apply shocks again, the dogge stays where he is, because in his mind he still thinks he cant do anything. wow
It's a basic back theory about the etiology of depression. But that's not all. At the same time, Cody doesnt "just" get a painful shock, but get's threatened emotionally, physically and verbally again and again and again. He is visibly emotionally overwhelmed. Thatswhy those situations trigger an alarm situation in the body that is usualy solved through the fight-and-flight system. Probably everyone heard about that: the body is pushing adrenaline through the veins so you can either fight the enemy or flee. The crux of the matter, if you are neither able to fight nor to flee, there is an overflow of adrenaline and cortisol in your body that sooner or later leads to a breakdown of that nervous system.
This is the point when posttraumatic stress disorder is developing, as the mind isnt even able to transfer the traumatic situation into coherent memory anymore (or more exact the part of the brain responsible for processing emotion - the amygdala - is not able to function properly anymore and collapses in its function), so the traumatic situation stays burned into the brain for hopefully being able to recognize such a situation earlier next time and maybe avoid it. Of course this worsens when the traumatic situations continously add up. It's also called "fight, flight or freeze" response, because as a result if youre not able to fight or flee, you freeze to the point of catatonia and are not even physically able to move anymore.
TL: DR im a psychological superbrain and I dont think cody lay down voluntarily, but simply collapsed.