Unmasking the Mask: 69 Shocking Signs Psychopaths Use to Hide in Plain Sight
I’m a bit late to this, so not sure this will be seen, but my wife is bugging me to share. I actually started my career in forensic psychology, but decided to get out of it after I got stabbed and assaulted a few times by patients. I then started working with children and teens. It was there, working with an 8 year old girl, we’ll call her Sarah – that I came across my first person I’d ear mark as a psychopath.
Sarah came from a pretty good family and they were really dedicated to help her moving forward. The parents had no obvious concerns with their own behaviour and they seemed to be pretty well regulated folks. They had bounced across a few therapists before seeing me, most of which seemed to struggle with the fact that Sarah did not seem to be demonstrating more traditional behavioural issues (e.g. she was not impulsive, she did not just lose her temper and go wild). Instead, Sarah was attentive, planning and meticulous. She was pretty text book in that she had a long history of mutilated barbies and some quite hurt animals along her path. The part that was bit unique with Sarah is she rarely got in trouble for doing anything because it seemed that she was really good at convincing other children, usually those a bit younger than he of doing things.
We got my foot in the door by doing some psych testing with Sarah. I had a booklet in front of her (thing costs about $200) that we use for the tests. Sarah proceeded to slowly rip one page at a time while looking me in the eye. I have a pretty good poker face. She asked me what I was going to do about it. I said “nothing”. She continued. After a while she admitted that she was surprised I had not reacted yet. I told her it wasn’t my booklet and that “I just work here”. That actually was why she stopped.
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