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In reply to the discussion: The mountains of absolute SHIT some of us took eight years ago or seven years ago or six years [View all]moniss
(8,089 posts)what sociopaths are, how dangerous they are and it seems only a few like yourself truly understand. I mistakenly married one and barely got out alive. They will slit someone's throat without a care in the world and then sit and have coffee next to the body like nothing happened. If the cops come they will lie and deny and if that seems not to be working they will claim it's not their fault and that someone/something made them do it. Furthermore when they go to the step of putting off blame they will also say they are blameless because nobody stopped them.
They feed on the upset, pain and misery they can cause and they plan it and manipulate others both to be co-perpetrators and victims. They never, ever take real responsibility for themselves. They lie as easily as they breath and they lie about inconsequential things like what time a TV program came on or if there is canned soup in the pantry. Part of the lying is that they use it as a mechanism to draw you in for manipulation purposes. They know you will engage with them and they will start pushing buttons like guilt, sympathy, anger etc. and these responses "feed" them and they use this as part of a validation and sense of power and control within themselves.
If you do not engage with them it drives their anger to unbelievable levels and they will lash out. This is why in extreme cases like Crumb the 1st he is always looking at the TV and media for his name and things about him to be mentioned. He desperately needs people to react to him and so the more outrageous things he says and does he knows he will get a larger and larger "feeding".
There is nothing much to be done to change them from a mental health perspective. As you said they are very cunning and any display of seeming "ignorance" is actually likely calculated by them to generate comment, outrage etc. so they can "feed". Sort of like the old "Star Trek" episode where an alien being foments conflict and negative emotions because it feeds on them and draws strength.
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