Nicola Staff asked 3 years ago
Here is another good indicator one is perhaps dealing with a psychopath. The ability to lie without hesitation and to continue the lies when one is found out is a kind of hubris born of ego by someone with no concern about others. To the psychopath, other people are simply there to be manipulated and exploited in whatever way they can get away with. They have no caring about the other people because they can feel no compassion, no empathy, and so will have no compunction to mount a gesture of loving kindness because they are incapable of feeling concern and a genuine desire to understand the point of view of someone else who may be unhappy with them. When all traces back to the need for power and control, any concern or complaint is seen as a threat and an attack against them.
The psychopath must preserve their false ego-based view that forms their sense of entitlement and will defend their presumed authority harshly to turn the tables and attempt to belittle a critic. It is exhausting to be in combat continually, so even the psychopath will develop quite an array of strategies to gain time and leverage over others through manipulation. If one can outwit their critic, it is more efficient and takes less energy than to go to war. The ability to lie is the chief strategy employed because it will cover up any number of mistakes and shortcomings, and will put the other party on the defensive so is often quite successful in keeping the psychopath in control of things. Being without a conscience, they will simply not worry about the house of cards they have constructed with their "magical thinking" but are simply feeling entitled to do whatever they want, so it does not represent a burden but simply a way of dealing with others to keep them in their place.
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