i'd like to hear some other experiences with psychopaths. i'm not talking about people who are just mean.... but people who have no conscience. they fake emotion to fool people and have no other mission than self "pleasure". they aren't all killers. some never physically harm anyone. many do.

have you known one? are you one? (since this site is essentially anonymous i figure it can't hurt to ask - some like to boast about it). were you married to or were you in a relationship with one?

Never met one but my wife married one...

Wait...What?

Sociopathic then I'd have to say yes. Psychopath not so much.

There was a psychopath in my neighborhood when I grew up. One time we(the neighborhood kids) witnessed this kid pick up a frog...throw it up in the air and hit it with a tennis racket which resulted in it smashing against a tree and falling to the ground. While we were still in shock and before we could react he grabbed another frog and smashed it between a boulder and the tennis racket until it...you know where I'm going(he gained a lot of pleasure out of watching the frog suffer and then watching our reactions of horror). We of course stopped him from grabbing anymore frogs(on that occasion) and told our parents. There were A LOT of disturbing examples from him all of which strongly indicated he was psychotic(more so than the frog one). His parents were multimillionaires and they were the wealthiest family on the block, somehow he weaseled his way out of every horrible event and is probably now doing more adult-like sadism somewhere.

He had a very charismatic personality and knew how to lie to people successfully by interacting with vulnerabilities in them that he was able to discover within minutes of talking to them. There were times when even those who had witnessed his horrific nature first hand would later fall under his spell. They would then end up defending him and doing his bidding until they shook out of it at which point they explained how they couldn't stop the manipulation from happening as it was so strong and convincing.

I just caused my boss to get fired because he was one. A perfect example of the type of person who becomes a politician.

He had somehow grafted his way into a job way above his ability, experience or skill level. I was wondering how he had gotten into that position, figuring he had some kind of blackmail on somebody or something like that. He was that kind of scumbag.

Turns out he was embezzling money, ripping all of us off in a bunch of different ways. Once it started becoming evident, myself and my buddy, who between us made up over half of all production, quit in an uproar. We threatened lawsuits, etc. over the missing money. And pointed out that we were producing 60 percent of all the money, more than everyone else put together. Oh, and eighty percent of that was ME.

After checking the books, they busted him for stealing somewhere in the neighborhood of fifty grand over the last month alone. And this had been going on for months.

All he got was fired. He should be in jail for it. I would like to personally break his legs, but I can't do that. I mean, I could, but then I would get busted. So he just gets off, keeps the money, and we are all screwed. Great. Like a miniature Bernie Madoff. And certain things he had done are going to start coming back to bite us in the a$$ now that it's a new year.

The amount he stole from me personally is a lot, but barely worth trying to pursue the kind of lawsuit that might someday get me the money back. We are in Mexico, it's harder to deal with, and if he leaves the country they are not gonna chase him over my measly ten grand. We'd have to do some kind of class action lawsuit with twelve people, and the only ones to come out on top of that are the lawyers. So I'm basically screwed.

Imagine this guy times one hundred billion. There you've got your politicians. The $hit always rises to the top.

when i was about 14 i was supposed to be stopping at a friends house and we got drunk and ended up fighting so after that i set off walking home.and decided to take a short cut over a pitch black huge field.and this guy came darting out of nowhere with a huge knife saying their you are you little b*stard and started screaming at me. i never ran so fast in my life luckily i dusted him but.i crapped myself.

and 3 days after that a woman was raped at knife point close by.god knows what is intentions was with me just glad i escaped.

I would like to point out that, as a kid, frogs played an important part in lots of things.

Every rocket powered experimental model boat, plane, car, ALWAYS had a frog as test pilot. Often there were M80s involved, too, usually ending up in frog guts all over the place.

So I guess I'm a psycho. Sorry, but I don't think I am. There was one psycho kid in our neighborhood, I'm sure he turned out to be some kind of rapist or serial killer. You could tell from a very young age. Killing cats and stuff.

But the rest of us were blowing up some frogs. Like, all the time. BB guns were even involved. M80s. Rocket engines. You know, kid stuff.

Originally posted by CaptChaos
I would like to point out that, as a kid, frogs played an important part in lots of things.

Every rocket powered experimental model boat, plane, car, ALWAYS had a frog as test pilot. Often there were M80s involved, too, usually ending up in frog guts all over the place.

So I guess I'm a psycho. Sorry, but I don't think I am. There was one psycho kid in our neighborhood, I'm sure he turned out to be some kind of rapist or serial killer. You could tell from a very young age. Killing cats and stuff.

But the rest of us were blowing up some frogs. Like, all the time. BB guns were even involved. M80s. Rocket engines. You know, kid stuff.

Did you witness any of them smash one through a tennis racket's threads as slow as possible so each individual square bubbled up as slowly as possible until many squares split open and eventually the animal died all the while enjoying fellow children's stunned reaction? Then witness him successfully lie about it? Or maybe you witnessed them get a joy out of "accidentally" slamming another child's hand in an oak door frame over and over again as if he couldn't hear the kid screaming and he thought there was some other obstruction stopping the door from closing.

I'm not talking about kids playing Lost in Space using frogs as the astronauts flying though the air. This is the only psychopath I've ever met...as I clarified in my first post that was just one example which was actually mild compared to other examples which involved making people suffer...which I won't go into. Not all threads/posts need to be debunked...sometimes someone just asks for an example of someone experiencing something and the people answer with their experiences. FFS...

i wasn't expecting so many responses so quick! i'm going to read them all now. thanks!