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Warning Signs

Red flags and warning signs of sociopaths, narcissists, and psychopaths in relationships. These common patterns can help you to identify and avoid similar abuse in the future.

  1. 10 Warning Signs That You're Dealing With a Sociopath, Narcissist, or Psychopath

    Psychopaths spend their lives learning how to mimic normal human emotions, but they don’t actually experience things like compassion and love.
  2. 6 Signs You're Arguing With a Sociopath, Narcissist, or Psychopath

    #1. They lie and make excuses. Everyone messes up every now and then, but psychopaths recite excuses more often than they follow through with promises.
  3. Do Psychopaths Have a "Type"? Sure, Anything With a Beating Pulse

    Psychopaths use different people for different types of supply depending on what they're looking for. We are all just tools to them.
  4. 14 Ways to Know If You're Dating a Psychopath, Sociopath, Or Narcissist

    Most of us will never get the confirmation of an official Cluster B diagnosis but if you spent a significant amount of time...
  5. "All of My Exes are Bipolar / Crazy / Hysterical / Bitter / Jealous / In Love With Me"

    “Crazy” and “Hysterical” are words of invalidation, minimization, and dismissal. They imply that any reaction you display is over-the-top.
  6. 7 Signs of Hypocrites & The People They Target

    Hypocrites are experts at blaming others, while empathetic people are experts at blaming themselves. You absorb their poison and begin to believe it as truth.
  7. Pathological Lying: A Psychopathic Manipulation Tool

    Pathological and compulsive liars have personality disorders, and those disorders can be placed on a psychopathic spectrum. Signs of habitual liars include:
  8. The Narcissist's Fan Club

    Psychopaths, sociopaths, and narcissists are professionals at charming the pants off of anyone. And they always have a line of unsuspecting victims ready to go.
  9. Understanding How Sociopaths Think: Why It is Good to Ask Why

    Sociopaths must spend their entire lives watching others and learning to imitate behaviors that they are unable to engage in naturally.
  10. Are All Lies Created Equal?

    In any given situation, if the truth will garner them the pity they are looking for, the truth is what you will get. Otherwise, you get a lie.