This is the crazy part, so I have hesitated to write this in the past.
Women buy into this guy's crazy behavior like he is some kind of cult leader.
Despite actually seeing written evidence that assertions on this site are
true... despite seeing the evidence for themselves in the form of hidden cameras
or using aliases... Richard twisting the description of what they see with
their own eyes into something unrecognizable... watching him scam their friends
with business promises... watching a hordes of people list their complaints
on a website...seeing easily for themselves that he doesn't have any of the
credits he claims to have... seeing for themselves the multiple phones and secretive
behavior and gaps in times he claims to be places... hearing the truly unlikely
assertion that every other woman he has ever spoken to is a homely lesbian or
diseased or a druggie or is peri-menopausal... watching him fake seizures when
he doesn't like how a conversation is going...
....still they leave their families.... leave their friends... wreck their
own credibility... help with scams... spend their time dodging STDs... spend
their time visiting lawyers with him... spend their savings, their air miles,
their very lives...
And for what?
For what?
And these aren't "homely lesbian druggies" as he once described
more than one while working new victims... these are talented,
beautiful, smart women. Smarter than he is. Better educated than he is.
These are people that know how to work. Lawyers, opera singers, virtuoso
musicians, doctors and nurses, real estate agents, business owners...
It is just freaky. And the only thing I can think of is cult "belief"
behavior that always seems so bizarre to people not in the cult.
Why do they want so much to believe?
~S
Here is an interesting site -- http://www.cix.co.uk/~klockstone/spath.htm
Inside the Mind of a Sociopath
This excerpt is from: "The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless
vs. the Rest of Us" by Martha Stout Ph.D. (Broadway Books, New York, 2005, ISBN
0-7679-1581-X). Martha Stout is a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School
and elaborates on the tales of ruthlessness in everyday life based on her 25
years of practice as a specialist in the treatment of psychological trauma
survivors.
Imagine - if you can - not having a conscience, none at all, no
feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no limiting sense of concern
of the well-being of strangers, friends, or even family members. Imagine no
struggles with shame, not a single one in your whole life, no matter what kind
of selfish, lazy, harmful, or immoral action you had taken. And pretend that
the concept of responsibility is unknown to you, except as a burden others seem
to accept without question, like gullible fools. Now add to this strange
fantasy the ability to conceal from other people that your psychological makeup
is radically different from theirs. Since everyone simply assumes that
conscience is universal among human beings, hiding the fact that you are
conscience-free is nearly effortless. You are not held back from any of your
desires by guilt or shame, and you are never confronted by others for your
cold-bloodedness. The ice water in your veins is so bizarre, so completely
outside of their personal experience that they seldom even guess at your
condition.
In other words, you are completely free of internal restraints,
and your unhampered liberty to do just as you please, with no pangs of
conscience, is conveniently invisible to the world. You can do anything
at all, and still your strange advantage over the majority of people,
who are kept in line by their consciences, will most likely remain
undiscovered.
How will you live your life? What will you do with your huge
and secret advantage, and with the corresponding handicap of other people
(conscience)? The answer will depend largely on just what your desires happen
to be, because people are not all the same. Even the profoundly unscrupulous
are not all the same. Some people - whether they have a conscience or not -
favor the ease of inertia, while others are filled with dreams and wild
ambitions. Some human beings are brilliant and talented, some are dull-witted,
and most, conscience or not, are somewhere in between. There are violent people
and non-violent ones, individuals who are motivated by blood lust and those who
have no such appetites.
Maybe you are someone who craves money and power, and though
you have no vestige of conscience, you do have a magnificent IQ. You have the
driving nature and the intellectual capacity to pursue tremendous wealth and
influence, and you are in no way moved by the nagging voice of conscience that
prevents other people from doing everything and anything they have to do to
succeed. You choose business, politics, the law, banking or international
development, or any of a broad array of other power professions, and you pursue
your career with a cold passion that tolerates none of the usual moral or legal
encumbrances. When it is expedient, you doctor the accounting and shred the
evidence, you stab your employees and your clients (or your constituency) in the
back, marry for money, tell lethal premeditated lies to people who trust you,
attempt to ruin colleagues who are powerful or eloquent, and simply steamroll
over groups who are dependent and voiceless. And all of this you do with the
exquisite freedom that results from having no conscience whatsoever.
You become unimaginably, unassailably, and maybe even globally
successful. Why not? With your big brain, and no conscience to rein in your
schemes, you can do anything at all.
Or no - let us say you are not quite such a person. You are
ambitious, yes, and in the name of success you are willing to do all manner of
things that people with conscience would never consider, but you are not an
intellectually gifted individual. Your intelligence is above average perhaps,
and people think of you as smart, maybe even very smart. But you know in your
heart of hearts that you do not have the cognitive wherewithal, or the
creativity, to reach the careening heights of power you secretly dreams about,
and this makes you resentful of the world at large, and envious of the people
around you.
As this sort of person, you ensconce yourself in a niche, or
maybe a series of niches, in which you can have some amount of control over
small numbers of people. These situations satisfy a little of your desire for
power, although you are chronically aggravated at not having more. It chafes to
be so free of the ridiculous inner voices that inhibit others from achieving
great power, without having enough talent to pursue the ultimate successes
yourself. Sometimes you fall into sulky, rageful moods caused by a frustration
that no one but you understands.
But you do enjoy jobs that afford you a certain undersupervised
control over a few individuals or small groups, preferably people and groups who
are relatively helpless or in some way vulnerable. You are a teacher or a
psychotherapist, a divorce lawyer or a high school coach. Or maybe you are a
consultant of some kind, a broker or a gallery owner or a human services
director. Or maybe you do not have a paid position and are instead the
president of your condominium association, or a volunteer hospital worker, or a
parent. Whatever your job, you manipulate and bully the people who are under
your thumb, as often and as outrageously as you can without getting fired or
held accountable. You do this for its own sake, even when it serves no purpose
except to give you a thrill. Making people jump means you have power - or this
is the way you see it - and bullying provides you with an adrenaline rush. It
is fun.
Maybe you cannot be a CEO of a multinational corporation, but
you can frighten a few people, or cause them to scurry around like chickens, or
steal from them, or - maybe, best of all - create situations that cause them to
feel bad about themselves. And this is power, especially when the people you
manipulate are superior to you in some way. Most invigorating of all is to
bring down people who are smarter or more accomplished than you, or perhaps
classier, more attractive or popular or morally admirable. This is not only
good fun; it is existential vengeance. And without a conscience, it is
amazingly easy to do. You quietly lie to the boss or to the boss's boss, cry
some crocodile tears, or sabotage a coworker's project, or gaslight a patient
(or child), bait people with promises, or provide a little misinformation that
will never be traced back to you.
Or now let us say you are a person who has a proclivity for
violence or for seeing violence done. You simply murder your coworker, or have
her murdered - or your boss, or your ex-spouse, or your wealthy lover's spouse,
or anyone else who bothers you. You have to be careful, because if you slip up,
you may be caught and punished by the system. But you will never be confronted
by your conscience, because you have no conscience. If you decide to kill, the
only difficulties will be the external ones. Nothing inside you will ever
protest.
Provided you are not forcibly stopped, you can do
anything at all. If you are born at the right time, with some access to
family fortune, and you have a special talent for whipping up other people's
hatred and sense of deprivation, you can arrange to kill large numbers of
unsuspecting people. With enough money, you can accomplish this from far away,
and you can sit back safely and watch in satisfaction. In fact, terrorism (done
from a distance) is the ideal occupation for a person who is possessed of blood
lust and no conscience, because if you do it just right, you may be able to make
a whole nation jump. And if that is not power, what is?
Or let us imagine the opposite extreme: You have no interest
in power. To the contrary, you are the sort of person who really does not want
much of anything. Your only real ambition is not to have to exert yourself to
get by. You do not want to work like everyone else does. Without a conscience,
you can nap or pursue your hobbies or watch television or just hang out
somewhere all day long. Living a bit on the fringes, and with some handouts
from relatives and friends, you can do this indefinitely. People may whisper to
one another that you are an underachiever, or that you are depressed, a sad
case, or, in contrast, if they get angry, they may grumble that you are lazy.
When they get to know you better, and get really angry, they may scream at you
and call you a loser, a bum. But it will never occur to them that you literally
do not have a conscience, that in such a fundamental way, your very mind is not
the same as theirs.
The panicked feeling of a guilty conscience never squeezes at
your heart or wakes you in the night. Despite your lifestyle, you never feel
irresponsible, neglectful or so much as embarrassed, although for the sake of
appearances, sometimes you pretend that you do. For example, if you are a
decent observer of people and what they react to, you may adopt a lifeless
facial expression, say how ashamed of your life you are, and talk about how
rotten you feel. This you do only because it is more convenient to have people
think you are depressed than it is to have them shouting at you all the time, or
insisting that you get a job.
You notice that people who do have a conscience feel guilty
when they harangue someone they believe to be "depressed" or "troubled." As a
matter of fact, to you further advantage, they often feel obliged to take care
of such a person. If, despite your relative poverty, you can manage to get
yourself into a sexual relationship with someone, this person - who does not
suspect what you are really like - may feel particularly obligated. And since
all you want is not to have to work, your financier does not have to be
especially rich, just relatively conscience-bound.
I trust that imagining yourself as any of these people feels
insane to you, because such people are insane, dangerously so. Insane but real
- they even have a label. Many mental health professionals refer to the
condition of little or no conscience as "anti-social personality disorder," a
non-correctable disfigurement of character that is now thought to be present in
about 4 percent of the population - that is to say, one in twenty-five people.
This condition of missing conscience is called by other names, too, most often
"sociopathy," or the somewhat more familiar term psychopathy.
Guiltlessness was in fact the first personality disorder to be recognized by
psychiatry, and terms that have been used at times over the past century include
manie sans délire, psychopathic inferiority,
moral insanity, and moral imbecility.
This website summarizes some of the common features of descriptions of the
behavior of sociopaths.
Glibness and Superficial Charm
Manipulative and Conning They never recognize the rights of others and
see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet
are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an
instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims.
Grandiose Sense of Self Feels entitled to certain things as "their
right."
Pathological Lying Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is
almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and
get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities.
Extremely convincing and even able to pass lie detector tests.
Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt A deep seated rage, which is split off
and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but
only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, they have victims and
accomplices who end up as victims. The end always justifies the means and they
let nothing stand in their way.
Shallow Emotions When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and
compassion it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive.
Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would
upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.
Incapacity for Love
Need for Stimulation Living on the edge. Verbal outbursts and physical
punishments are normal. Promiscuity and gambling are common.
Callousness/Lack of Empathy Unable to empathize with the pain of their
victims, having only contempt for others' feelings of distress and readily
taking advantage of them.
Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature Rage and abuse, alternating
with small expressions of love and approval produce an addictive cycle for
abuser and abused, as well as creating hopelessness in the victim. Believe they
are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal
boundaries, no concern for their impact on others.
Early Behavior Problems/Juvenile Delinquency Usually has a history of
behavioral and academic difficulties, yet "gets by" by conning others. Problems
in making and keeping friends; aberrant behaviors such as cruelty to people or
animals, stealing, etc.
Irresponsibility/Unreliability Not concerned about wrecking others'
lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does
not accept blame themselves, but blames others, even for acts they obviously
committed.
Promiscuous Sexual Behavior/Infidelity Promiscuity, child sexual abuse,
rape and sexual acting out of all sorts.
Lack of Realistic Life Plan/Parasitic Lifestyle Tends to move around a
lot or makes all encompassing promises for the future, poor work ethic but
exploits others effectively.
Criminal or Entrepreneurial Versatility Changes their image as needed to
avoid prosecution. Changes life story readily.
Other Related Qualities:
Contemptuous of those who seek to understand them
Does not perceive that anything is wrong with them
Authoritarian
Secretive
Paranoid
Only rarely in difficulty with the law, but seeks out situations where their
tyrannical behavior will be tolerated, condoned, or admired
Conventional appearance
Goal of enslavement of their victim(s)
Exercises despotic control over every aspect of the victim's life
Has an emotional need to justify their crimes and therefore needs their
victim's affirmation (respect, gratitude and love)
Ultimate goal is the creation of a willing victim
Incapable of real human attachment to another
Unable to feel remorse or guilt
Extreme narcissism and grandiose
May state readily that their goal is to rule the world
(The
above traits are based on the psychopathy checklists of H. Cleckley and R.
Hare.)
NOTE: In the 1830's this disorder was called "moral insanity." By 1900 it
was changed to "psychopathic personality." More recently it has been termed
"antisocial personality disorder" in the DSM-III and DSM-IV. Some critics have
complained that, in the attempt to rely only on 'objective' criteria, the DSM
has broadened the concept to include too many individuals. The APD category
includes people who commit illegal, immoral or self-serving acts for a variety
of reasons and are not necessarily psychopaths.
DSM-IV Definition
Antisocial personality disorder is
characterized by a lack of regard for the moral or legal standards in the local
culture. There is a marked inability to get along with others or abide by
societal rules. Individuals with this disorder are sometimes called psychopaths
or sociopaths.
Diagnostic Criteria (DSM-IV)
1. Since the
age of fifteen there has been a disregard for and violation of the right's of
others, those right's considered normal by the local culture, as indicated by at
least three of the following: A. Repeated acts that could lead to
arrest. B. Conning for pleasure or profit, repeated lying, or the use of
aliases. C. Failure to plan ahead or being impulsive. D.
Repeated assaults on others. E. Reckless when it comes to their or
others safety. F. Poor work behavior or failure to honor financial
obligations. G. Rationalizing the pain they inflict on others.
2. At least eighteen years in age.
3. Evidence of a Conduct
Disorder, with its onset before the age of fifteen.
Antisocial Personality Disorder results in what is
commonly known as a Sociopath. The criteria for this disorder require an ongoing
disregard for the rights of others, since the age of 15 years. Some examples of
this disregard are reckless disregard for the safety of themselves or others,
failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors,
deceitfulness such as repeated lying or deceit for personal profit or pleasure,
and lack of remorse for actions that hurt other people in any way. Additionally,
they must have evidenced a Conduct Disorder before the age of 15 years, and must
be at least 18 years old to receive this diagnosis.
People with this
disorder appear to be charming at times, and make relationships, but to them,
these are relationships in name only. They are ended whenever necessary or when
it suits them, and the relationships are without depth or meaning, including
marriages. They seem to have an innate ability to find the weakness in people,
and are ready to use these weaknesses to their own ends through deceit,
manipulation, or intimidation, and gain pleasure from doing so.
They
appear to be incapable of any true emotions, from love to shame to guilt. They
are quick to anger, but just as quick to let it go, without holding grudges. No
matter what emotion they state they have, it has no bearing on their future
actions or attitudes.
They rarely are able to have jobs that last for
any length of time, as they become easily bored, instead needing constant
change. They live for the moment, forgetting the past, and not planning the
future, not thinking ahead what consequences their actions will have. They want
immediate rewards and gratification. There currently is no form of psychotherapy
that works with those with antisocial personality disorder, as those with this
disorder have no desire to change themselves, which is a prerequisite. No
medication is available either. The only treatment is the prevention of the
disorder in the early stages, when a child first begins to show the symptoms of
conduct disorder.
THE PSYCHOPATH NEXT DOOR (Source:
http://chericola57.tripod.com/infinite.html)
Psychopath. We hear the
word and images of Bernardo, Manson and Dahmer pop into our heads; no doubt Ted
Bundy too. But they're the bottom of the barrel -- most of the two million
psychopaths in North America aren't murderers. They're our friends, lovers and
co-workers. They're outgoing and persuasive, dazzling you with charm and
flattery. Often you aren't even aware they've taken you for a ride -- until it's
too late.
Psychopaths exhibit a Jekyll and Hyde personality. "They play
a part so they can get what they want," says Dr. Sheila Willson, a Toronto
psychologist who has helped victims of psychopaths. The guy who showers a woman
with excessive attention is much more capable of getting her to lend him money,
and to put up with him when he strays. The new employee who gains her
co-workers' trust has more access to their chequebooks. And so on. Psychopaths
have no conscience and their only goal is self-gratification. Many of us have
been their victims -- at work, through friendships or relationships -- and not
one of us can say, "a psychopath could never fool me."
Think you can
spot one? Think again. In general, psychopaths aren't the product of broken
homes or the casualties of a materialistic society. Rather they come from all
walks of life and there is little evidence that their upbringing affects them.
Elements of a psychopath's personality first become evident at a very early age,
due to biological or genetic factors. Explains Michael Seto, a psychologist at
the Centre for Addiction and Mental health in Toronto, by the time that a person
hits their late teens, the disorder is almost certainly permanent. Although many
clinicians use the terms psychopath and sociopath interchangeably, writes
psychopath expert Robert Hare on his book 'Without Conscience', a sociopath's
criminal behavior is shaped by social forces and is the result of a
dysfunctional environment.
Psychopaths have only a shallow range of
emotions and lack guilt, says Hare. They often see themselves as victims, and
lack remorse or the ability to empathize with others. "Psychopaths play on the
fact that most of us are trusting and forgiving people," adds Seto. The warning
signs are always there; it's just difficult to see them because once we trust
someone, the friendship becomes a blinder.
Even lovers get taken for a
ride by psychopaths. For a psychopath, a romantic relationship is just another
opportunity to find a trusting partner who will buy into the lies. It's
primarily why a psychopath rarely stays in a relationship for the long term, and
often is involved with three or four partners at once, says Willson. To a
psychopath, everything about a relationship is a game. Willson refers to the
movie 'Sliding Doors' to illustrate her point. In the film, the main character
comes home early after just having been fired from her job. Only moments ago,
her boyfriend has let another woman out the front door. But in a matter of
minutes he is the attentive and concerned boyfriend, taking her out to dinner
and devoting the entire night to comforting her. All the while he's planning to
leave the next day on a trip with the other woman.
The boyfriend
displays typical psychopathic characteristics because he falsely displays deep
emotion toward the relationship, says Willson. In reality, he's less concerned
with his girlfriend's depression than with making sure she's clueless about the
other woman's existence. In the romance department, psychopaths have an ability
to gain your affection quickly, disarming you with words, intriguing you with
grandiose plans. If they cheat you'll forgive them, and one day when they've
gone too far, they'll leave you with a broken heart (and an empty wallet). By
then they'll have a new player for their game.
The problem with their
game is that we don't often play by their rules. Where we might occasionally
tell a white lie, a psychopath's lying is compulsive. Most of us experience some
degree of guilt about lying, preventing us from exhibiting such behavior on a
regular basis. "Psychopaths don't discriminate who it is they lie to or cheat,"
says Seto. "There's no distinction between friend, family and sucker."
No one wants to be the sucker, so how do we prevent ourselves from
becoming close friends or getting into a relationship with a psychopath? It's
really almost impossible, say Seto and Willson. Unfortunately, laments Seto, one
way is to become more suspicious and less trusting of others. Our tendency is to
forgive when we catch a loved one in a lie. "Psychopaths play on this fact," he
says. "However, I'm certainly not advocating a world where if someone lies once
or twice, you never speak to them again." What you can do is look at how often
someone lies and how they react when caught. Psychopaths will lie over and over
again, and where other people would sincerely apologize, a psychopath may
apologize but won't stop.
Psychopaths also tend to switch jobs as
frequently as they switch partners, mainly because they don't have the qualities
to maintain a job for the long haul. Their performance is generally erratic,
with chronic absences, misuse of company resources and failed commitments. Often
they aren't even qualified for the job and use fake credentials to get it. Seto
talks of a patient who would get marketing jobs based on his image; he was a
presentable and charming man who layered his conversations with educational and
occupational references. But it became evident that the man hadn't a clue what
he was talking about, and was unable to hold down a job.
How do you make
sure you don't get fooled when you're hiring someone to baby-sit your child or
for any other job? Hire based on reputation and not image, says Willson. Check
references thoroughly. Psychopaths tend to give vague and inconsistent replies.
Of course the best way to solve this problem would be to cure psychopaths of
their 'illness.' But there's no recipe for treating them, say psychiatrists.
Today's traditional methods of psychotherapy (psychoanalysis, group and
one-on-one therapy) and drug treatments have failed. Therapy is more likely to
work when an individual admits there's a problem and wants to change. The common
problem with psychopaths, says Sets, "Is they don't see a problem with their
behavior."
Psychopaths don't seek therapy willingly, says Seto. Rather,
they're pushed into it by a desperate relative or by a court order. To a
psychopath, a therapist is just one more person who must be conned, and the
psychopath plays the part right until the therapist is convinced of his or her
'rehabilitation.'
Even though we can't treat psychopaths effectively
with therapy, it doesn't mean we can't protect ourselves, writes Hare. Willson
agrees, citing the most important factor in keeping psychopaths at bay is to
know your vulnerabilities. We need to "realize our own potential and maximize
our strengths" so that our insecurities don't overcome us. Because, she says, a
psychopath is a chameleon who becomes "an image of what you haven't done for
yourself." Over time, she says, "their appearance of perfection will begin to
crack," but by that time you will have been emotionally and perhaps financially
scathed. There comes a time when you realize there's no point in searching for
answers; the only thing is to move on.
Taken in part from MW -- By
Caroline Konrad -- September 1999
THE MALIGNANT PERSONALITY:
These people are mentally ill and extremely dangerous! The following
precautions will help to protect you from the destructive acts of which they are
capable.
First, to recognize them, keep the following guidelines in
mind.
(1) They are habitual liars. They seem incapable of either knowing
or telling the truth about anything.
(2) They are egotistical to the
point of narcissism. They really believe they are set apart from the rest of
humanity by some special grace.
(3) They scapegoat; they are incapable
of either having the insight or willingness to accept responsibility for
anything they do. Whatever the problem, it is always someone else's fault.
(4) They are remorselessly vindictive when thwarted or exposed.
(5) Genuine religious, moral, or other values play no part in their
lives. They have no empathy for others and are capable of violence. Under older
psychological terminology, they fall into the category of psychopath or
sociopath, but unlike the typical psychopath, their behavior is masked by a
superficial social facade.
If you have come into conflict with such a
person or persons, do the following immediately!
(1) Notify your friends
and relatives of what has happened.
Do not be vague. Name names, and
specify dates and circumstances. Identify witnesses if possible and provide
supporting documentation if any is available.
(2) Inform the police. The
police will do nothing with this information except to keep it on file, since
they are powerless to act until a crime has been committed. Unfortunately, that
often is usually too late for the victim. Nevertheless, place the information in
their hands.
Obviously, if you are assaulted or threatened before
witnesses, you can get a restraining order, but those are palliative at best.
(3) Local law enforcement agencies are usually under pressure if wealthy
or politically powerful individuals are involved, so include state and federal
agencies as well and tell the locals that you have. In my own experience, one
agency that can help in a pinch is the Criminal Investigation Division of the
Internal Revenue Service or (in Canada) Victims Services at your local police
unit. It is not easy to think of the IRS as a potential friend, but a Swedish
study showed that malignant types (the Swedes called them bullies) usually
commit some felony or other by the age of twenty. If the family is wealthy, the
fact may never come to light, but many felonies involve tax evasion, and in such
cases, the IRS is interested indeed. If large amounts of money are involved, the
IRS may solve all your problems for you. For obvious reasons the Drug
Enforcement Agency may also be an appropriate agency to approach. The FBI is an
important agency to contact, because although the FBI does not have jurisdiction
over murder or assault, if informed, they do have an active interest in any
other law enforcement agencies that do not follow through with an honest
investigation and prosecution should a murder occur. Civil rights are involved
at that point. No local crooked lawyer, judge, or corrupt police official wants
to be within a country mile if that comes to light! It is in such cases that
wealthy psychopaths discover just how firm the "friends" they count on to cover
up for them really are! Even some of the drug cartel biggies will scuttle for
cover if someone picks up the brick their thugs hide under. Exposure is bad for
business.
(4) Make sure that several of your friends have the
information in the event something happens to you. That way, an appropriate
investigation will follow if you are harmed. Don't tell other people who has the
information, because then something bad could happen to them as well. Instruct
friends to take such an incident to the newspapers and other media.
If
you are dealing with someone who has considerable money, you must realize that
they probably won't try to harm you themselves, they will contract with someone
to make the hit. The malignant type is a coward and will not expose himself or
herself to personal danger if he or she can avoid it.
Update: A thorough
article.
I, the creator of this site, am not a psychologist and no special expertise
in the subject. I created the site as a public service, because no similar site
existed in 2003. I occasionally get sad calls and emails. I urge you to consult
either a clinical psychologist or the police depending on the problem you face,
and wish you good luck.
