I was thinking of George Leach, and told Mikado that George must feel like he's living in an insane asylum. Then I began surfing the internet and found this interesting article (one of many):
From
http://www.dovechristiancounseling.com/DoYouLiveWithAPsychopath.html:
"Psychopaths have several names. The psychologists call them "anti-social", or "sociopath's" but they all mean the same thing. These are individuals who are extremely dangerous to everyone that they meet. And it is because they can appear completely "normal." They are often charming, good-looking, very intelligent, charismatic, manipulative, cunning, pathological liars, and cold-blooded, all at the same time.
They have a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others. They can do this without breaking the law, but very often they do break the law. They demonstrate deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or the conning of others for personal profit or pleasure. They are often impulsive, and fail to plan ahead. They will get irritated very easily, and become aggressive, and can get in repeated physical fights or assaults. They have a reckless disregard for self or others. And they show a constant irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations.
One of the biggest signs that someone is a Psychopath is their complete lack of remorse or empathy for others, or the ability to feel guilt for something they have done, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another. In other words, they have no genuine emotions. But they can FAKE emotions when they need to, as indicated by crying on cue, laughing on cue, etc. But it is all an "act" to attain whatever goal they are trying to achieve.
They are "people users" and see people as "objects" to be used, rather than as fellow human beings to respect and love. They will say anything, do anything, become anything to whomever they are associating with, in order to get something from that individual, and will drop the individual as soon as their usefulness to them is over.
They have "no conscience" and have "rendered their conscience inoperable."
They will often lose their temper, and as children they often argued with adults and actively defied or refused to comply with the adult's requests or rules. As children they will deliberately annoy people and then take delight in watching their annoyance. As both adults and children, Psychopaths will many times blame others for his or her own mistakes or misbehavior. They are "never wrong." And they are very touchy or easily annoyed by others, becoming angry and resentful. And when they are angry, that anger often turns into violence, which is both spiteful and vindictive.
The scariest thing about most Psychopaths is that they use "words" with finesse and have an answer for everything that they do, that turns the situation around and makes a normal person think that they are the ones with the problem instead of the Psychopath. If you confront a Psychopath with something that they have done, they will make it look like YOU are the one who did it. You know deep down inside that you are right and they are wrong, but you can never win, you can only feel like you are "going crazy."
What can you do???? If you are living with one of these people it is a "no win" situation. You NEED to leave, run, walk away as fast as you can and don't look back. This is because the cure rate for Psychopaths is very rare. Even with therapy, most of them do not change.
This is due to their refusal to demonstrate maturity and growth to any emotional or spiritual depth, their refusal to change and sustain change, and their inability to develop insight about how one’s behavior negatively affects others due to a complete lack of empathy, guilt or remorse for their behaviors."
Interesting.
Andy
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