Why do Cluster B people lie? It’s the most common question people who have been lied to and about tend to ask people they trust. When people victimized by social predators ask, “Why do they lie?” understand it’s because their mind and body are aware that truth matters. Not because they are intellectually deficient. People …
Why Pathological Liars and Enablers seek to triangulate
Pathological Liars and Enablers seek to triangulate other humans. It is actual covert social and physical abuse of everyone’s hospitality. Pathological liars tend to be experts at gaslighting. They lie to and about other people in order to strategically manipulate with the hopes of gaining social advantage. Why do they do it? To obscure the …
Repeating lies and gaslighting ad infinitum is a socially competitive brainwashing tactic
Why do toxic people repeat lies, smear campaigning remarks, ad hominem attacks, and false assertions over and over? Listen up, because we are about to tell you the answer you wish everyone has told you the first time you asked… more than likely when you were only two, three, or four years old and became …
Repeating a lie does not make Gaslighting true
Repeating a lie does not make Gaslighting true. Repeating a falsehood louder or more frequently does not magically change reality or the universe. What it does is socially and emotionally brutalize anyone exposed to the gist of the Social Predator. Vladimir Lenin was famous for saying, “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” He …
How to spot people who lie and who undermine
You know who they are… the Liars, the ‘Underminers’. But typically not until after they have been enabled to size you up as a mark and to target you and your peer group for social attack. Here are a few life-changing tips to help you spot them in life before they have a serious opportunity …
How do I know if I am being gaslit?
How do I know if I am being gaslit? Asking yourself that question then doing the self-help work necessary to educate yourself about the red flags and warning signs is essential to breaking the psychological and emotional hold most Love Fraud Predators strive to groom into their victims. People who gaslight — meaning those who …
The history of the term ‘Gaslighting’ in modern pop culture history and self-help social circles
The term Gaslighting comes from a movie reference to the film “Gaslight”. Gaslight is a story about a woman targeted by a Love Fraud predator for extreme abuse of her hospitality and humanity. In the motion picture made back in 1944, the social psychology phenomenon of using psychological and emotional abuse as a way to …
Gaslighting, Denial of Reality, and Intent to Commit Fraud common Narcissistic Abuse tactics
Gaslighting, Denial of Reality, and Intent to Commit Fraud are common Narcissistic Abuse tactics used by Dark Triad people to control their marks and to influence people. Dark Triad people meet diagnostic criteria for two or more Cluster B personality disorders coupled with a high degree of Machiavellian behavior. If someone you know lies to …
How to spot a Narcopath or Narcissist lying
How do you spot a Narcissist or Narcopath lying? That one is an easy poker tell to deduce. If their lips are moving, they are probably lying. Plain and simple. It is a scientifically proven, fact-checkable, medically accurate historical truth. All narcissistic people (including but not limited to Narcopaths) tend to lie by habit, regardless …
Narcissistic people use denial as a brainwashing technique
What is denial? More importantly, what is Denial — the psychological term for openly denying have done, thought, or said something to another human being (especially in such a way that it provokes a triggering response from a target). To bait or provoke then wait for a response is considered antagonistic; it is a truly …
Gaslighting is Covert Narcissistic Abuse at its finest
What is Gaslighting? To any person just waking up, it is the essence of Narcissistic Abuse. It is a noun, verb, and adjective that has “become a thing” in pop culture self-help movements, a word used to describe a classification of social interaction, an actual physical activity, and it is a word that can be …
What is Doublespeak: Overt and Covert manipulation in conversation
Doublespeak is both an overt and covert conversation control tactic where the speaker (as an Abuser) deliberately chooses to use euphemistic, ambiguous, or obscure language while engaging in conversation. A drug addict suddenly has a “substance abuse problem”. A serial cheater becomes a “sex addict”, never held accountable for lies told to a spouse that signify …
Intentional Gaslighting is morally different than Projecting
Intentional gaslighting is not projecting. People who have experienced living with or being targeted by an angry person with a Cluster B personality disorder know the difference. The signs are easy to spot. A narcissistic person who chooses to lie both to and about their targeted victim with an intent to cause confusion, harm, or …
Catching a Sociopath in a lie
Sociopaths are known liars. Catching a Sociopath in a lie can be quite revealing, noting that if they lie and are truly sociopathic by nature that their typical gut reactions to having been caught says a great deal about their core psychological and emotional nature. A personal favorite of ours is hearing Sociopathic people tell …