Recovering from Trauma
A close encounter with a psychopath, sociopath, malignant narcissist, or even a hard-core Karen can traumatize you. The Five Step Exit and HelpGuide.org may help you recover from that trauma. First, though, if you are being terrorized physically or emotionally by someone you live with, I urge you to contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline […]
Recommending Martha Stout’s: The Sociopath Next Door
I haven’t met Martha Stout, but I feel I’ve been in therapy with her since reading her book, The Sociopath Next Door. That was nearly twenty years ago, and I needed a lot of treatment, but if you’re troubled by a social predator, you can benefit from her work immediately. Psychology Today reports: “Martha Stout, […]
Get Your Mojo Back
When you discover that your cherished wife or husband is, in fact, a violent user, abuser, liar, cheater, thief, and manipulator, that’s when the teardrops start. And the longer you’ve been with them before the discovery, the harder it is to accept. In severe cases, people spend years figuring out what happened and how they […]
Recommending Gavin de Becker’s: The Gift of Fear
The Gift of Fear is a home, school, street, and workplace survival guide; available at countless retail locations or from your local library. Or, read the book for free if you’re an Amazon Kindle Unlimited subscriber. Or, perhaps best yet, watch up to eight and one-half hours of The Gift of Fear Master Class videos; […]
Beware of the Boogeyman
Know that social predators exist! Until you’re struck by one personally, it’s hard to believe they even exist. William March, author of The Bad Seed, put it well: “[G]ood people are rarely suspicious; they cannot imagine others doing the things they themselves are incapable of doing; usually they accept the undramatic solution as the correct […]
Mental Fitness Routine from Mayo Clinic
I’m constantly searching for new sources of protection against predators’ attacks. In today’s post, I recommend a Mayo Clinic webpage, “Strengthening Your Mental Fitness.” It proposes a mental fitness routine that integrates physical exertion, the use of mentors, persistence in the face of adversity, and seeking purpose through activities. The Mayo Clinic page begins: “Have […]
Recovering from a Predator’s Attack
An unexpected attack can knock any of us down. But for some, there isn’t much confidence or happiness even before the attack. And then, being tricked, used, beaten up, stolen from, and humiliated by a social predator results in utter hopelessness. Like that old CCR song in which “things got bad, and then things got […]