Unmasking the Mask: 69 Shocking Signs Psychopaths Use to Hide in Plain Sight
He was referred to another school/ hospital for children with mental disorders. I never saw M again. To this day, I still think of him and wonder what became of him. This was about 16 years ago. If you saw him, you would NEVER think this child was capable of such horrible things.
Five year old came into our school for behavioral kids. Was referred to us after his parents found his old backpack he had supposedly lost. It had three dead cats in it, who had essentially been dissected alive.
I am a mental health professional working in corrections (max security facility). In my experience, psychopaths will have this “predatory” stare, especially when they are trying to manipulate you. It is completely unnerving and hard to describe to someone unfamiliar with this population. They also tend to be narcissistic and overly charming, making a point to be overly friendly with you.
Not my story but a friend’s who work in a criminal psychiatric facility. He had talks 2 days a week with an inmate there to see if he was holding up. He was in there for an unprovoked, rather brutal a*****t for 2 years I think. A few months in my friend brought up the a*****t and wanted to talk of the motivation behind it. His answer:
“oh this guy was walking with this gorgeous girl that I winked to, and she ignored me, so I decided I should show her there are consequences for her disrespect”
The victim was hospitalized for like a month partly due to a crushed ribcage by metal pipe.
Not a psychologist, but I was a mental health worker and unit manager at a psychiatric facility for juveniles.
One of our patients was there because when he was 16, he beat a woman unconscious, tied her up with a phone cord and r***d her.
When he finally got out, he called back one day to check in (a fairly common occurrence) and told me he had a girlfriend. I told him that was great and asked her name. In a voice that literally gave me chills, he said, “I haven’t talked to her yet, I’ve just been watching her.”
Yeah, I called his case manager and the half way house he was staying at….
Therapist here – a good sociopath will, on the surface, seem totally invested in treatment – they kind of schmooze you/try to impress you. Then eventually you catch on that they’re manipulating you to think one way while they’re totally thinking/behaving opposite of what you think. Also, if you’re an empath and really pick up on people’s moods/“vibes”, sociopaths/psychopaths just give you a big gut feeling that something isn’t right – you almost feel slimy after talking to them. That’s my experience anyways🤷🏻♀️.
When describing some of the awful things he had done to people, he didn’t express remorse, regret, or even anger – he expressed disdain. He was disdainful of people that he had irreparably harmed because he did not get enough out of it – he used them for his own ends and he genuinely believed that they had failed him.
As a social worker, I was talking to a guy with diagnosed anti-social personality disorder. It wasn’t so much the lack of empathy as the way he was running in circles around questions. If I brought up his d**g use, he brought up his car accident. Very obviously manipulative, trying to create multiple sob stories about he was the victim in every circumstance including multiple assaults he had committed.
About a year later that R. Kelly Gale King interview came out and the similarities I saw in my client with R. Kelly was shocking.
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