Quite an interesting article . Quite the TSCC

http://psychopathvictims.com/psychopath/psychopathic-character-assassination

Thank you very much for linking to this article, lue.

It is very much appreciated!!!

Thanks, lue. This is relevant to my experience of being manipulated by my own sociopath bully.

A colleague is a perfect fit for this example of sociopathic behavior. She is flawless in her execution of the smear. One collegue can see right through her and she is systematically picking this person apart.

Thanks lue - surprisingly accurate about my own experience.

Accurate.
My ex, our oldest son and two of his daughters. Seems genetic.
And, they get worse each generation.
Distanced myself from all of them.
Are they TBMs? Oh, hell yes!!!

I just found this

http://aftermath-surviving-psychopathy.org/index.php/how-can-i-deal-with-a-person-with-psychopathic-features/

Since there are apparently so many people on this board who

are dealing or who have delt with a psychopath, this additional

link might be helpful as well.

Thank you, saucie...an excellent article, and personally very timely.

Muchly appreciated!!!

Nailed it, girl. Wish I didn't even KNOW how to confirm this article!!

;o)

I hear ya, Shannon.

TG

My son is one, and my heart is broken over him. I keep trying to envision the line that he crossed from being a sweet little boy to the monster that he is. When I go over old photos, I start seeing the change at about at about age 8 when he began to look calculating.

He's an attorney now, and he recently lost an enormous case--thank God. Winning that would have reinforced his sense of diabolical power.

It's not that he hurts people and then has no remorse--it's that he he actively seeks them out to "ruin their lives."

I've visited his home and witnessed his mental abuse to his wife and later gotten a very sympathetic phone call from him expressing his concerns that I'm gettin older and starting to "see things that aren't really there." His attempts to gaslight me have failed.

But, I am afraid of him. I am afraid of his abilities to do harm to my younger sons, his half brothers.

The defamation behavior is so icky to me that I've mentally swept it under the rug. Seeing it laid out as systematically planned and organized makes me want to take it on.

My Jewish friends call me a mensch. I'm trustworthy and most people get that instantly, so I never really worried about the attacks except to wonder if the person mounting the attack actually believed any of it.

Seeing the deliberate long term planning involved makes me want to engage. The whole thing is complicated by the target audience being my Mormon relatives. Do I even want to bother?

Don't.

This a life-long commitment for them. If you engage them, they will double down on their efforts to defame you.

Like Starbuck said in Moby Dick, "I won't have a man on my boat who's not afraid of a whale." Think of psychopaths as equally inhuman as killer whales.