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Complex PTSD from relationships with sociopaths

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Photo by Merelize at FreeRange Stock Photos.

You’re pretty sure that you’re involved with a sociopath, but you feel helpless to do anything about it. You’re afraid of conflict and you feel a sense of paralyzing shame and loneliness.

You berate yourself for not being able to make a decision and get out. But your issue may not be a character flaw — indecision, helplessness and shame are all symptoms of complex PTSD (C-PTSD).

According to Dr. Karin Huffer, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric injury caused by feeling helpless while in jeopardy. It is generally associated with a single traumatic episode, such a car crash, earthquake or sexual assault, or with combat and the atrocities … Read more

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To survive a sociopath, we sometimes act like a sociopath

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act like a sociopath I almost didn’t recognize myself. There I was, plotting with my cheating husband’s mistress to steal money from his bank account.

Before I married James Montgomery, I never would have considered such an action. But after he convinced me to blow $227,000 on his ridiculous business schemes, and after I discovered that my entire marriage was a scam, I was angry, broke and desperate. I did what I had to do to survive a sociopath (although at the time, I didn’t know he was a sociopath).

Maybe because of your own entanglement with a sociopath, you’ve found yourself doing things that you never, ever did before. This happened to “Stevie2018,” who just posted her story in the Lovefraud … Read more

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“I encountered a serial killer and escaped”

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In response to a question on Quora, a writer called “Frances Red” said yes, she had escaped a serial killer, and told the story about her ex-boyfriend, Kylr Yust:

Out of nowhere he bashed my head into the dashboard, zip tied my throat to the back of his seat, and forced himself upon me. I was traumatized, all these years we had been friends and he has never even so much as raise his voice at me now all the sudden he is beating the living crap out of me and stealing a big part of my innocence and Trust. After he was finished he Release Me From the zip tie that was around my

FREE with Masterclass! ‘Love Fraud and How to Avoid It’ webinar

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Upcoming webinar:

The Basics: Love Fraud and How to Avoid It
Jan. 16, 2019 • 8-9 pm ET
Instructor: Donna Andersen, author of Lovefraud.com

Is your charming, attentive love interest really a predator waiting to pounce? 12% of the people around us have serious personality disorders, and they’re all looking for hookups. Learn to protect yourself. There are two ways for you to buy the webinar.

Purchase Love Fraud and How to Avoid It for only $18.75. More info.

Sign up for the Lovefraud Understanding and Recovery 5-part Masterclass, and it’s FREE. You get six webinars for $99. More info.

Millions of sociopaths live all around us. Learn how to protect yourself. Or, if you’ve already … Read more

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MaryAnn Glynn, LCSW, to host free conference call support group 1/13/19 at 5 pm EST

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Experience the support of people who know! Join our free support group Sunday, January 13, 2019 at 5 pm EST. Go to destructiverelationshipshelp.com and use the Contact Form at the bottom of the home page to state your interest in joining. Do this every time even if you have joined us before! We will reply to you with instructions to join the conference call. It is anonymous and no personal information is displayed or shared.

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Dangerous Liaisons: Is his goal to break me?

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Dangerous Liaisons, starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich and Michelle Pfeiffer, was about breaking hearts for fun.

Editor’s Note: This Letter to Lovefraud is from a Lovefraud Reader whom we’ll call “Aubree.” Names have been changed.

I recently got out of a two year relationship with a person who I believe is a sociopath, or at the very least an extremely vengeful borderline. When we first got together, he told me that he used to have a habit of going to bars, finding the prettiest and most confident-looking woman there, and proceeding to go up to her and start picking on her and making fun of her for something that he suspected she might be insecure about. For example, … Read more

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Merry Christmas from Lovefraud!

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
to all Lovefraud readers!

Lovefraud authors are taking time off for the holidays. We’ll resume posting articles on Jan. 2, 2019.… Read more

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MaryAnn Glynn, LCSW, to host free conference call support group 12/30/18 at 5pm EST

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Experience the support of people who know! Join our free support group Sunday, December 30, 2018 at 5 pm EST. Go www.destructiverelationshipshelp.com and use the Contact Form at the bottom of the home page to state your interest in joining. Do this every time even if you have joined us before! We will reply to you with instructions to join the conference call. It is anonymous and no personal information is displayed or shared.

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MaryAnn Glynn to host free conference call support group 12/16/18 at 5pm EST

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Experience the support of people who know! Join our free support group Sunday, December 16, 2018 at 5 pm EST. Go www.destructiverelationshipshelp.com and use the Contact Form at the bottom of the home page to state your interest in joining. Do this every time even if you have joined us before! We will reply to you with instructions to join the conference call. It is anonymous and no personal information is displayed or shared.

Share your struggles, questions, get feedback and clarity from people who get it! Hope to meet you there!… Read more

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Research participants wanted to complete online survey about experiences in relationships with psychopaths!

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Researchers at the University of Windsor are conducting a study investigating experiences of remembering past events in interpersonal relationships with suspected psychopaths.

As a participant, you will be asked about a specific time when someone you suspect to be a psychopath made you question your memory for a past event. This may have been because they told you that your memory was incorrect, that the events did not happen, or that other people have doubts about your experiences. The researchers are hoping to learn more about your experiences of remembering and communicating with suspected psychopaths about things that happened in the past.

Your participation in this research is important for gaining new knowledge about how individuals in relationships … Read more

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