By Joyce Alexander, RNP (Retired)
Psychopaths sometimes don’t know enough about how the rest of the world thinks to tell a “good” lie. I saw the following article about North Korea’s soccer team and how they had been apparently caught in a doping scandal, but were claiming that it was really an herbal medication that made them test positive for steroids.
The excuse given was that the team members had been struck by lightening and they had decided, heroically, to compete anyway. The steroids were accidentally taken with traditional Chinese medicines.
I have recently found other articles about the “stories” of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-II, that made me laugh out loud. In one article, he supposedly played his first round of golf and scored a 38, including five holes-in-one.
One of the things I have noticed about many psychopaths, and others who frequently lie, is that their lies are so “off the wall” that no one over three years old would believe a word of them. They will “lie when the truth will fit better” is a saying I’ve heard all my life. This seems to be especially true with pathological liars and psychopaths.
Dr. Robert Hare, well-known psychopathy researcher, says that psychopaths have difficulty realizing that their lies are unbelievable, even when the evidence that they are untrue is literally in front of them. In some way, the two sides of their brains can’t connect the evidence in front of their eyes.
An example of this are the lies told by Casey Anthony when she led the police to the place she supposedly worked, even going to a cubical, when she knew that she didn’t work for that company. She also lied about leaving her daughter with “Zanny the Nanny,” when such a person didn’t exist. Anthony even led the police to the door of the empty apartment with the police in tow.
Not all liars are psychopaths, but all psychopaths are liars. Liars signal that they are not to be trusted. But if you hear a lie that is so outrageous that it makes you laugh out loud, or have the feeling that the person telling it must be “crazy—”look out! You very well may be dealing with a psychopath.
Back_from_the_edge
farwronged: that little bit up there is only the tip of the iceberg, My Dear. It has truly been a nightmare, unheard of and unmatched. Truly. I haven’t divulged everything because I am oh so serious about my intentions of prosecution.
It will all eventually come out and I will make sure you all will hear about it. Whether I am still here, alive, or not. I will make sure you all hear about it because you guys have been right by my side the whole time I have been coming through my withdrawl.
I just can’t talk about too much more right now. For legal issues. But trust me, I have seen, heard, read, A LOT of diabolical things in my lifetime but I have NEVER met a MONSTER such as this. Truly. If I could run ::WARNING:: ads, I would. 😉 “IT” is out there, trolling the internet, looking for new victims and it is very dangerous. Like being in association with a true serial killer. Very scarey. But, alas, “I” refuse to get caught up in that boogeymanism, as well!
It has no power over me. NONE. The only power it has now is the POWER I ALLOW IT TO HAVE. “I” am the ONLY person who can EVER allow that devil back inside my door and it just isn’t happening. It’s over. It needs to slither back under the rock from which it came and go away now. I am finished with “IT”. Disgusted by “IT”. I loathe “IT” for it’s darkness and evilness.
I AM WORKING ON “ME”. I am trying to rid myself of these HORRID ruminations and it takes great strength and discipline but we can make it. We just have to WANT to and realize inside of us that they are taking our thoughts too. It’s like a slow release time bomb…
We must fight these thoughts and ruminations if we are going to survive this. They are not worth this.
Oh yes, Dupedster, is on the path, ladies and gentlemen…
And you have all been with me on this journey. xxoo
Duped
Back_from_the_edge
IT thinks I have forgotten about IT because I do not respond.
I have seen it do this before over other victims: search and search and delve and follow and stalk….it is only in a ‘lull’ and then it will begin again. I know this.
It is now a battle of the minds and the wills.
I have absolutely NO intention on LOSING.
And I will not resort to low life tactics extricating myself.
I will stand on what is right and what is just and the truths.
The truth will keep me safe.
Have to run for the rest of the day now.
You all take good care of yourselves; eat right; don’t languish…think pleasant thoughts. Take all those rotten memories and grab a hold of them and turn them around…
Nobody can do that for us but ourselves.
BE GOOD TO YOURSELVES; REWARD YOURSELVES; YOU DESERVE IT and HAVE EARNED IT!
mwah~ xxoo
candy
GRAY day here today. My head aches like a ROCK. Think I’ll do some gardening later
superkid10
Duped
I hope one day ho share your whole story.
SK
skylar
what a depressing and gray day. Even gardening won’t help today. I’d like to throw a rock at something….
Back_from_the_edge
Hey superkid: Hopefully someday I will have the chance to tell it all MYSELF. But I can’t do that until IT is behind bars. Be patient, Dear…you WILL hear the whole thing. You all will be VERY surprised!
I am just biding my time…it’s alright; it’s under control.
IT isn’t though and that’s the problem. 🙂
*HUGS SUPERKID*
Duped
Back_from_the_edge
candy: i tried to answer you on the other thread but site is acting up today. I know they are doing something with it. So, let me try again:
Thanks candy! I am pretty proud of myself for not losing my cool and blasting IT! It keeps trying to contact me, now and then, not as before: 24/7…IT IS GONE FROM MY WORLD . I am sure.
Heck yah~! You are ALL invited to my 3 months NO CONTACT party! In fact, I may just take an ad out in a local paper!!! 🙂
And “IT” reallllly had the nerve and the gall to say: “You will never get over me. I am the love of your life. You can’t make it without me. You need me.” Yah, like I need a hole in my head!
GUESS WHAT FLIPPY:: OVER YOU!
LIFE IS MOVING ON. Don’t ‘flatter’ yourself…
You flatter yourself more than you deserve.
Come on out to the left coast and we’ll party! 🙂
Actually, I think I am too tired to party, right now.
The word ‘party’ makes me fall asleep, yawning after all this!
Thanks candy…
IT IS MONUMENTAL FOR ME!
Duped
Shalom
Superdupedster:
It’s Happy Hour on the wall. Washington Apple cocktails now being served. Three months NC is cause for celebration. It takes a month to create a habit and a month to break it. You are so on your way. Love. Shalom.
candy
C’mon Duped – get that cocoa down you and let’s *****PARTY****
ElizabethBennett
I am so homesick here and it hurts-it’s hard. I have only been here since Friday night and I have been crying myself to sleep at night.