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What’s up with the mixed messages? “Five Reasons To Be Concerned Your Husband Is A Psychopath “

Posted in General, tagged , , , , on May 20, 2011| 1 Comment »

Five Reasons To Be Concerned Your Husband Is A Psychopath

It dawned on me a few years ago that our rational lives are like a still pond and madness is the jagged rock thrown into it, creating odd ripples everywhere. And the most powerful madness of all, when it comes to the way the world turns, is psychopathy.

There’s a consensus amongst psychologists that psychopaths — with all their glib charm and grandiosity and the power to effortlessly manipulate — do brilliantly in business and politics.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-ronson/five-reasons-to-be-concer_1_b_861092.html

The author, Jon Ronson, goes on to list five traits as possible signs of psychopathy:

1. He was very gallant when you first met him, not so gallant now
2. He’s grandiose
3. He Had Early Behavioral Problems
4. He Engages In Promiscuous Sexual Behavior, and finally
5. He Spends too Much Time Learning How To Spot Psychopaths By Using the Hare Checklist

Why is number five there?  This suspicion is extremely damaging.  It actually leads to self-censorship by non-psychopaths.  Friends and acquaintances think my ‘fascination with psychopaths’ is very odd.  That makes no sense to me.  They are out there and you need to understand them.

The status quo (thankfully now changing) is similar (as I’ve written elsewhere) to there being a dangerous fish in all the waters of the world that is never mentioned.  That is insane and a failure of each generation to the following generations.

I believe the author’s point five encourages the public to hide their heads in the sand and works at cross purposes with his other points.  Why?

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It seems I’m being harassed

Posted in General, tagged , , , , , , on May 13, 2011| 7 Comments »

Lately I’ve been experiencing some rather strange occurrences.  It seems I’m sometimes being followed.  Since it’s been 3 or 4 times now, I’ve decided to discuss it here.  The exact number is hard to know because, similar to when one is being gaslighted, one writes off the first couple instances as belonging to the just-can’t-be category.

It’s surprisingly sophisticated.  I seem to be followed by teams, both in front and behind me.  When someone is walking in front of you and keeping pace with you (by sidewise glances or whatever) there is something different about their walking.  It is not like a person walking purposefully somewhere or even like someone meandering.  This will last for blocks with the distance between us hardly varying.  Or an individual will pass and then fall back, repeatedly, again over blocks.  Or an individual will still be in the same relative distance after my spending time in a store.

More troubling is purposely changing my route and then finding, after a few blocks on the new street, that the same individual has appeared once again in front of me at about the same distance.  So there has to be someone behind directing the forward party.  Is there some kind of throat mike that picks up outwardly inaudible speech (don’t ask me why I ask this)?

Their leader seemingly is a middle aged man, with short brown hair, of medium height (5′ 9-10″), medium build with a broad face and smoked glasses.  He also seems to be something of a hothead.

I have photos of certain of these individuals which I have snail mailed around.

Just for the record, as someone who studies and deals with sociopaths I work very hard at never telling myself not to be paranoid — so I’m immune to that charge.  Only one or two of these individuals however struck me as probable sociopaths.

This has only taken place (with one exception) on the few days of the week when I have a predictable routine and route of travel.  So that means there had been unobtrusive observation earlier.

Why I would deserve such sophisticated (and expensive) attention makes no sense.  But there it is.

Follow up:  “Private message”.

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