My husband and I are dealing with a local business owner who has been intimidating and bullying us by questioning and legally threatening the validity of a contract over 16 years old. This business owner uses his clout to lie to the local police department claiming we are trespassing on his property and sends us scores of letters by mail bullying us and making life horrible.
We refer to him as a "psychopath" or "sociopath" (synonyms, in fact).
And we may be very correct in our assessment. Turns out one percent (thank heaven it's not more) of the population are "subclinical psycopaths". (The scary question is "how many "clinical" psychopaths?!")
"They're your neighbor, your boss, and your blind date. Because they have no conscience, they're natural predators."
The scariest part of all is that there is no "cure", no functioning treatment program for psychopathy.
Tragically, my and husband and I have unintentionally made it worse because we would not let ourselves be threatened, so we engaged. We sent letters back and, boy, did we make him livid. A livid sociopath is not a pretty sight and can be extremely frightening, in fact. We were not prepared.
I wish we had known that psychopaths have three motivations: thrill-seeking, the pathological desire to win, and the inclination to hurt people. "They'll jump on any opportunity that allows them to do those things," he says. "If something better comes along, they'll drop you and move on."
He's got upwards of 11 litigations and a $65,000 contempt of court against him. He does not rest. Even when the courts call him on it, he breaks all the rules. He knows no boundaries.
Scary, scary stuff. A business owner, a father, a husband, and a psychopath. Just our luck that one out of 3,000 psycopaths in the population, he'd be in our community.
Click to read more about psychopaths and the test used to "diagnose" called the Hare Psychopathy Checklist.
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