By Ox Drover
As an advanced practice nurse, one of the things I did here in the rural area where parasites are common was warn people about the many diseases, several of them potentially fatal, caused by a common parasite, the tick.
Here on LoveFraud we often refer to psychopaths as “parasites” because, like a common blood-sucking tick, they feed off of a host, without giving any benefit to the host, or giving any more thought to the damage they do to the host than a common tick does as he burrows into your flesh.
In the warmer months of the year, the tick searches for anything that is warm and moves and can actually leap small distances to latch on to the host. They like to burrow into the skin in a “tight spot,” like under your waistband or some other hidden area. Frequently, too, they will actually group up in one spot on the host, and when you detach the biggest tick on top, you will find several other smaller ones hidden beneath who are also sucking blood from the same spot.
Parasites, just like the psychopath, take without giving. Sometimes the parasites actually do give you something, but it is usually in the form of some noxious, toxic and potentially fatal or debilitating disease. In the case of ticks, one of the more common diseases they pass on is Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, which is a disease caused not by their bite, but by an infectious agent in their feces which can actually pass through intact skin. A few days after the tick has either dropped off voluntarily, sated with the host’s blood, or been pulled off, frequently leaving behind both feces and mouth parts imbedded in the skin, the host will start to feel ill and run a fever. People with RMSF usually break out in a rash that resembles measles. Frequently the host doesn’t even realize what has happened, and may not actually remember being bitten by a tick. With prompt treatment, 93 percent of the victims will live, but without treatment, as many as 20 percent of the victims will die of either the disease itself or complications induced by the illness.
My bout with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
A couple of summers ago, I noticed that I wasn’t feeling well. It was during the worst of the fear and chaos of my experience with a multitude of psychopaths all at once, so I wasn’t thinking really clearly in any case. I attributed my “feeling bad” to the stress I was under for a couple of months until I became so weak I could not even climb a flight of stairs or stand up long enough to wash a small sink full of dishes by hand. I had noticed a tick bite, one that had been on me for at least 24, and probably 36 hours, before I noticed it and removed it.
When I became so ill that I literally was as “weak as a kitten” I finally decided to put a thermometer in my mouth and found I had a fever of 101 degrees, so I called my physician. He drew blood after I had reported to him the tick bite a couple of months before, and sure enough, I had Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, though I had not broken out in the usual rash. I was so ill however, that my physician scheduled a battery of other tests and an appointment is a blood specialist and an infectious disease specialist. It took me almost a year to regain my strength and to start to feel better, but fortunately I ended up not having any lasting effects from the disease.
Remove the parasite promptly
Like ticks, psychopaths usually take a little time to not only suck your blood, but to transmit disease. If ticks are removed promptly, even if they have bitten you, there is little likelihood that they will infect you with something fatal. If they have time to deeply burrow into your skin, the longer they are there, the greater the likelihood that they will leave something behind that will cause problems for you. It may only be a painful, red, itching lesion that seems to drive you crazy with wanting to scratch to the bone, or it may be a disease that will land you in the ICU or the morgue, or cripple you with arthritis later on, like Lymes.
Not all diseases passed on to humans or other mammals by ticks and other parasites are as easily identifiable as RMSF. Some diseases that are potentially fatal have no reliable blood test to indicate that they are present. The person feels bad, but there is no objective symptom that can be identified either by the victim or the medical practitioner until great damage has occurred. These occult (unidentified) diseases may go undetected for months or years, doing their damage to the victim that is irreversible.
The psychopath and the tick
There is so much similarity between the psychopath and the tick, as well as other parasites. They burrow into our flesh and almost, in some cases, become part of us, while they suck our blood, and infect us with their toxic waste. They may not even appear to be so evil. “It’s just a bug bite, get over it,” our friends and family may say. Though we may become very ill from our even short association with these creatures, the illness may not be apparent to the naked eye like, say, a broken leg would be. We may struggle with the itch, the fever, the weakness, and the general debility left behind and not even realize that we have been infected with pathogens that can ruin or end our lives.
In addition to ticks attaching to us as we walk through grass or brush, ticks may also latch on to our pets or other family members, and thus gain entrance into our homes and lives by hitching a ride on our friends and pets. The tick may not even attack the pet or family member, but instead jump off on to our skin for his blood meal, using the intermediary only for transportation to get to us.
Look out for parasites
As I told the patients in my clinic, you need to be on the look out for ticks. If you or any member of your family, or pets, go anywhere in the summer time where there is grass, you should do a complete daily check for ticks, and carefully remove any that you find. Immediately wash the area and mark the date on the calendar, so that you can be on the look out for any sign of disease from even a short association with these creatures. If the symptoms of any kind of disease show up, seek medical attention immediately.
I think that same advice is useful for people who don’t live on a desert island alone, but live in the real world in which they may encounter psychopaths. I suggest that we all do a daily check of our lives to see if anyone we are dealing with even looks or acts at all like a parasite. If we see a parasite, quickly remove that parasite from our life. Wash all traces of them off of us. Then keep our eyes open for any covert damage that they have done to our life so that we can seek proper treatment as soon as possible.
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“These occult (unidentified) diseases may go undetected for months or years, doing their damage to the victim that is irreversible.”-Oxy
LOL, Oxy does it again. Interesting term…”occult”…for the as yet unidentified diseases.
Can we get ticks to carry red flags, too, so we can spot ’em more easily?
Oxy, glad you survived to pass on the wisdom. Live long, well, and prosper.
Every time I get rid of one tick, a different variety jumps aboard. It doesn’t seem to matter what season it is, they turn up in the most unlikely places. My youngest son has a big bloodsucker on him that he won’t allow me pull out and its mother has also latched on. His therapist told him that I am in the wrong for continually pointing the tick out to him. My little dog got entirely consumed by a tick. I have so many scars from ticks that there is very little space on me where I haven’t been bitten. But worst of all my daughter, who was bitten by her parasite father has turned into a lifesize tick too! I am still recovering from multiple aches and pains left by various diseases from the faeces of the ticks.
I search daily to make sure there are none attached to me, then without exception when I least expect it..OUCH!! There it is.
I left the head in of the last one. I have tried metho, tweezers and the doctor, but every night I still see its head in my dreams. Help!
Bravo Oxy!
JIM in indiana – i like your trekkie reference.lol. yes s/ps should have warning beacons(like they put on dangerous planets in Star Trek;)
Dear Dear Tilly,
Yes, my dear! I definitely know the feeling. When we were in South Africa years ago photographing wild life in the bush there were “Rhino ticks” that were the biggest things I had ever seen. almost the size of a dime, and green and speckled, they could suck through the inch-thick hide of the rhino. They would try to set down in the palm of your hand while you watched. They made me shudder as I squashed them.
Fortunately for us who have pets you can put a medication on their backs monthly that keep the ticks from sitting down and hainging on. they die. It doesn’t REPEL 100% but does kill those that sit down. We can do the same thing for our cattle as well. I wish there were something we can do for ourselves that would work for real ticks, AND for psychopaths, but so far, it is WATCH and REMOVE ASAP.
I have gotten a few on me this year, only one that really burrowed in deeply, and I think most have hooked rides on my little Jack Russell into the house, so I also spray him with a repellant to help decrease this.
WAtching someone else that you love with a huge blood-engorged tick hang off the end of their nose and watching them stumble around, unable to see the tick itself or how weak and debilitated that they have become from the continal blood loss and toxins injected into their system, is horrible. I spent almost 8 years watching my son C in that condition, and I know that you also have the same exact problem with your own son, who has that huge parasite attached to his life, along with the mother of all ticks as well.
The damaage is so OBVIOUS to us, but they can’t even see the darned tick on the end of their nose. I stumbled around for a full TWO MONTHS getting weaker and weaker, running fevers every night that felt like “menopausal hot flashes” and I didn’t even have the presence of mind to take my termperature for two months. I just kept asking people “is it hot in here to you” and they said “no, it is fine” so I ignored it.
It was only when I became so PHYSICALLY WEAK and debilitated that I sought help medically. the same thing applies, I think, many times to the HUMAN TICK, THE PSYCHOPATH, it is not until they have made us so weak we can’t function at all, that we will seek treatment or recognize that SOMETHING is making us VERY ILL.
Sometimes people have to be FLAT OF THEIR BACKS before they will look UP to God or others for help. Sometimes that is TOO LATE, unfortunately, as this week’s articles have shown so clearly with Kelsi’s murder. Sometimes people wait TOO long for help. My son C almost waited too long, and I thank God every day that my X-DIL’s plot and attempt to kill him and make it look like “self defense” did not work.
Even after I had been infected by the tick and was feeling severe symptoms, BECAUSE OF MY CONFUSION and FEAR of my psychopathic-parasites, I overlooked the symptoms of my own impending illness and even possibly death if I had not been treated, and made “excuses” why I felt that way. “Stress, it must be the stress.”
I have NO doubt that the four potentially LIFE THREATENING INFECTIONS I had during the aftermath of my husband’s death and the P-attacks was as a result of the STRESS and PTSD wiping out my fairly good immune system and opening my body (as well as mind) to infections of opportunity that I would normally have resisted had I not been under such emotional stress.
I’ve studied the effects of extreme stress on the body and mind of humans and animals since my freshman year in college, and some how I seemed to think that I WAS IMMUNE from this biological FACT. DUH!?!!!! I am the POSTER CHILD (okay, poster OLD LADY) for THE EFFECTS OF EXTREME STRESS IN HUMANS. Put my picture under the text, I have physically aged 20 years in appearance, I have mid-section fat accumulation that I never had before, I get infections that go rampant in record time, my mind is slowed down in my thinking, I can’t remember crap, my sleep cycle is disturbed, I have obscessive thoughts, I have anxiety, hypervigilence, paranoia, inability to set priorities, focusing instead on minor unimportant details that don’t mean anything, while the house around me burns to the ground and I don’t have the presence of mind to call the fire department because I have a hang nail I keep focusing on.
Yep, I have “improved” over the last couple of years as I searched, read, processed and blogged here on LF, but I am NOT back to where I was before July 14, 2004 when my husband’s plane went down and I heard the awful “whoosh” of fire about 10 seconds after the crash sound. From the date of the crash until May 2007 I lived in continual crisis and chaos, with the ticks piling on, sucking blood with one “emergency” after another using up what energy and instinct for self preservation I had left after the crash.
I was totally unable to see the huge, blood engorged ticks hanging from my body and sucking my strength, my blood, and infecting me with their toxic wastes. It took a REAL TICK to finally bring me to the ground in September of 07, and make me get up and start to take care of MYSELF. To take care of my health and start me on a road toward healing.
It took a combination of that complete weakness and LoveFraud to make me start my recovery process, and my ability to regain my strength and start to heal both my body and my mind and soul.
I’ve still got some disabilities that I am not sure I will ever totally get rid of, but I also have some ABILITIES that I did not have before all this.
I not only watch for the insect parasites, but I also watch for the two-legged parasitic creatures that come into my life. I have a CAUTION that I didn’t have before, becauser I know it can happen to ME, not just to others.
I have also been given the wonderful gift of the return of my son C to my arms and heart, and the GIFT of seeing his recovery and healing. He too will never be the “same” as he was before because now he sees just how TOXIC these parasites can be, and is more able to distinguish them from the non-toxic two-legged “bugs” we see every day as we interact with people. My son D who works with teh Boy Scouts is able to educate both other counselors and campers to the dangers not only of the creepy crawly ticks in the woods, but the two-legged variety as well.
Hang in there, Tilly, it is a slow process and requires that we study hard and learn the lessons in the class, but I think you are making big progress toward recovery. (((hugs))))
Thank Ox Drover,
I often thought about parasites or the “bug” compared to our parasitic “human variety types“…
Our parasitic bugs are as close as your back yard. How many times our pet come back into the house bringing with it an uninvited guest. Pet owner’s are reminded by their vets annually that our hairy friends are at risk during the hot summer months.
Well it turns out that our “human variety” of this parasite is also as close as our back yards but we call it technology in short our computers. We pick them up on dating sites blog sites and other places we might feel “safe”. They come to us via facebook myspace and many other sites like these.
This human variety comes with many names or should I say screen names like; Singlefather06 searching4soulmate looking2meetperson4longterm and many more (these screen names are fiction) but they are in fact parasitic that hide their true nature and persona. Now I know that this is not the only places we may come into contact with them and that one can meet one on a train plane at church or some other general meeting place and activities . But like the tick it hides until the right moment to leap and/or jump on the host. This human variety also hides using the internet as perfect cover. It is harder for them in social gathering plus supply is more numerous on the net then what can be done in a social gathering. If anyone knows and/or spend any time on the net it’s all about numbers or “hits” as we call them. Again the internet offers the perfect caliginous for this purpose “numbers” or hits as we call them.
“If we see a parasite, quickly remove that parasite from our life. Wash all traces of them off of us. Then keep our eyes open for any covert damage that they have done to our life so that we can seek proper treatment as soon as possible.”
I believe this is something we should do whenever we come into contact with “strangers” or “new friends” albeit the internet or other places. Our human variety of a parasite also shows us it true self and we can understands like the tick what to look for. Members here at LoveFraud knows too well the many red flags which will aid us in spotting then removing the parasitic human variety type before a great deal of damage is already done….
I have too put my two cent’s in here. Two weeks ago I felt something painful on my back right between my shoulder blades, I thought maybe a mosquito bite, but I got the mirror and looked and sure nuff a tick. I tried to reach it with my hands, I twisted around like a pretzel and could not get to it. I thought about going to my son’s for help but I knew he would say “thats what ya get for sleeping with dogs’ kinda like my X – if you look for love under rocks you will always find scum? Oh well – needless to say I was helpless and all alone – hmmm – go figure – so I backed up to a tree and scrathed it off – let the head and the crap inside – but it festered for a while and finally healed – I will let ya know if I survived ‘the tick on my back’
Hey Henry: Nice trick! Next time, though, you might try using a spatula. Seriously! It’s a down-home solution, and the flat blade of the spatula is more likely to scrape off the whole tick and not leave mouth parts.
The tick I had on my back sucked away my home and business. I’d say you got off lucky!
I remember as a child when working on the farm or being outside all the time how I saw some animals covered with these “ticks”. I remember feeling so sorry for these dogs and cats. I wanted to pull them out but my father telling me how the heads will stay inside the animals and just pulling out the bodies wasn’t enough. How we had to make sure we “got all of it out”!
This is how I feel about the tick of the human kind. Just pulling them off of us isn’t enough we must make sure we get all of them out of us. This we do whenever we start to heal by learning and understanding our toxic relationship with them. Henry we has to make sure we get it all out and only by understanding and learning how too will we be able to do so..
PS: henry you survived your ex s/p and no doubt will survive this! 🙂
Rune
“The tick I had on my back sucked away my home and business. I’d say you got off lucky!”
LOL!
Good one! 🙂
Sorry for your loss Rune, they do leave scars that no one else can see. Those slimey little back biters, back stabbers. I know they are out there and I will always be watching my back from now on. I will carry a fly swat and a can of RAID the rest of my life.