You can read a lot of articles online on slightly hippy websites like psychology today et cetera about narcissists and sociopaths. There is a school of thought that says these words, particular narcissist, get thrown about too easily.
This may be so. However I think there is a real phenomena whereby when we become vulnerable we attract these types of people over and over and over again.
For the first 33 years of my life I never encountered such people. Then when I became physically unwell I was repeatedly targeted by more than one pure sociopath. As a result of a series of unfortunate consequence of events, my physical health worsened, and then my mental health worsened, followed by more worsenings in physical health, all of which just makes you a greater target for such people. I thought I had managed to put it behind me, but was recently targeted by somebody I can see was not a sociopath, but more like a narcissist. Confusingly, such people can have a certain degree of conscience, unlike the pure sociopath.
https://esteemology.com/the-three-p...ip-cycle-over-evaluation-devaluation-discard/
Of course we must interact with such people when we are mentally and physically healthy, but I think firstly, they don't target people who are not vulnerable, and secondly, when we are not vulnerable, we are much less likely to be harmed by them even if they do target us. For example, a psychologically healthy person can escape a short relationship with a narcissist relatively unharmed. He or she will probably never spot that they were in a relationship with a narcissist, they won't bother reading up on it or attach the label to that person. Somebody who is already very mentally vulnerable is much more likely to come to harm In a relationship or interaction with a narcissist or sociopath
I mentioned this to a therapist and she says she sees it over and over and over again. Somebody becomes vulnerable, their self-esteem goes down, and then they are repeatedly targeted by such people.
Some people seem to have had upbringings and families that involve such people – that must be absolutely terrible. My own family were very loving and I was not vulnerable or mentally unwell in my 20s, which is why it is so very striking to me how these people crawl out of the woodwork like earwigs in response to the development of vulnerability.
A year or two ago, when toying with the idea of suicide, I would say to myself I'm not bloody well doing that, because I don't want the bastards who have targeted me to win. F**k them. Later things that happened to me have changed my mind on that a bit.
It is still really bloody annoying when these people win out.
What have others experiences' been? Has treatment by these types of people affected your mental health or desire to ctb?
TL;DR
We don't see narcs and sociopaths when we're mentally healthy, then when we're not it's like someone turned the light out in the woodshed; they all come crawling out of the cracks.
This may be so. However I think there is a real phenomena whereby when we become vulnerable we attract these types of people over and over and over again.
For the first 33 years of my life I never encountered such people. Then when I became physically unwell I was repeatedly targeted by more than one pure sociopath. As a result of a series of unfortunate consequence of events, my physical health worsened, and then my mental health worsened, followed by more worsenings in physical health, all of which just makes you a greater target for such people. I thought I had managed to put it behind me, but was recently targeted by somebody I can see was not a sociopath, but more like a narcissist. Confusingly, such people can have a certain degree of conscience, unlike the pure sociopath.
https://esteemology.com/the-three-p...ip-cycle-over-evaluation-devaluation-discard/
Of course we must interact with such people when we are mentally and physically healthy, but I think firstly, they don't target people who are not vulnerable, and secondly, when we are not vulnerable, we are much less likely to be harmed by them even if they do target us. For example, a psychologically healthy person can escape a short relationship with a narcissist relatively unharmed. He or she will probably never spot that they were in a relationship with a narcissist, they won't bother reading up on it or attach the label to that person. Somebody who is already very mentally vulnerable is much more likely to come to harm In a relationship or interaction with a narcissist or sociopath
I mentioned this to a therapist and she says she sees it over and over and over again. Somebody becomes vulnerable, their self-esteem goes down, and then they are repeatedly targeted by such people.
Some people seem to have had upbringings and families that involve such people – that must be absolutely terrible. My own family were very loving and I was not vulnerable or mentally unwell in my 20s, which is why it is so very striking to me how these people crawl out of the woodwork like earwigs in response to the development of vulnerability.
A year or two ago, when toying with the idea of suicide, I would say to myself I'm not bloody well doing that, because I don't want the bastards who have targeted me to win. F**k them. Later things that happened to me have changed my mind on that a bit.
It is still really bloody annoying when these people win out.
What have others experiences' been? Has treatment by these types of people affected your mental health or desire to ctb?
TL;DR
We don't see narcs and sociopaths when we're mentally healthy, then when we're not it's like someone turned the light out in the woodshed; they all come crawling out of the cracks.
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