Psychopathy – The New Fad For Social Justice Warriors

 

anon
I found this link on Amazon as I was reading through the one star reviews of Peace’s new book. I keep up on that because I’m suspicious of some of the practices that the forum is doing. The saddest thing about the Psychopathfree forum is that they really do work at isolating members from one another outside of the forum and so the mind fuckery is ramped up to the point that you have no other option (as a hurting soul) than to put your trust in the leaders of the site and of like minded members who have also put their blind trust in people they do not know. I’ve been a member (lurking a lot) on the site for a year now, and I notice that there are new members coming in all the time and hardly any old members left and the good moderators left long ago. The leaders who run it are rude and down right bullying and of course deny this constantly and are able to wordsmith their way out of any issue or challenge to their authority or position on how to run the site. So with this coming and going, the recruitment stays fluid and the message of peace warriors continues on.

Absolutely they have used psychopathology as their theme and I found myself seeing it in everyone if I’m not careful and catch myself. The term is thrown around so loosely over there that it’s criminal. Everyone is a P (psychopath). Peace has two articles about ‘winning the battle’ and paints himself as the leader of the battle. With his revised version of his book he tells his real name and uses his picture now. It’s nothing but a very slick campaign to sell the book and to start the nonprofit status. Has anyone in the field of psychiatry or social sciences endorsed the book or posted articles or support the website? Look around over there and try to find an educated, licensed expert who is helping these traumatized people or calling out the leaders on their pseudo-psychology masked as ‘the good fight against evil’.

On the forum members have the ability to private message one another. Yet this option is not activated until you’ve been on the forum for quite some time and have a fair number of posts. Why is this? They constantly tell others it’s because of member safety and because there are predators that arrive at the site thus you don’t want to share any information at such a vulnerable state. Maybe this is true. But it smacks of conditioning and cult like behaviors. One member I communicate regularly with was friends with one of the moderators and the leaders actually can see who you are messaging behind the scenes and how long you’ve been talking to that person. They know your internet address and where you live and they do in fact communicate with other leaders on other boards about suspicious trolls and members. Then bam, you are banned and lose that connection you’ve just created with other hurting souls.

I hope the word gets out about this blog you all have created here and people come and share their point of views and experiences and what has happened to them so that something can be done about that site and other psychopathic sites and the leaders who are really manipulating vulnerable minds. It is dangerous and very sad.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

 

Maria
My thoughts exactly. It’s no longer a personal issue to them; it’s already an issue of pride and status, of spreading a message with very serious implications.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

 

anon
Here is the post about the revised book that just came out and written by Peace:

“Empathetic people—dreamers and idealists—have this sort of accidental power. Most spend their early years riddled with self-doubt, insecurity, and people-pleasing habits. But their journey is inevitably derailed when this comfortable life gets uprooted by an unexpected darkness. Suddenly their trusted methods no longer seem to bring them happiness. At first this depression convinces them that they might never feel joyful again. But ultimately, it sets them on a quest for something more—for love, justice, and wisdom. Once this adventure begins, there is no stopping a dreamer.

And when dreamers unite?

Well, that’s how we start to change the world.

I am so excited to share that the Psychopath Free book is now available in Barnes & Noble stores everywhere, and many other bookstores around the globe!

It is my hope that someone in pain might pass by that display and have their “lightbulb moment” and take back their freedom, giving us a new way to spread awareness.

Through simple word of mouth, we saw PF hit #1 new release for Abuse, Personality Disorders, and Domestic Violence. Books get passed from clients to therapists, from patients to doctors, from defendants to lawyers, and suddenly awareness spreads like wildfire.

Thank you so much to all of the people who made this book possible, and turned PF into what it is today.”

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And this is an article in the websites library entitled “The Battle” written by Peace.

“First off, I am so humbled & excited to announce that the Psychopath Free book has been picked up by Berkley at Penguin Books! It is now available online:

You can also find it at Barnes & Noble stores everywhere!

Now onto the weirder stuff. For more than two years, I’ve gone by the name “Peace”. While I love the quiet life that comes with my pseudonym, I have come to discover that our mission is anything but quiet. With 70,000 Facebook fans and millions of forum visitors since we got started in late 2011, it has become clear that this issue impacts more people than we ever could have imagined. It is not at all normal for a website to grow at this pace.

I believe there’s a battle on the horizon. Not the kind with guns and bombs—but instead, a battle of the human conscience. Throughout history, people have told stories of villains. From fairytales to pop music to drawings in caves, they are all describing the same phenomenon: a battle between psychopaths & dreamers.

Now, awareness is spreading faster than ever, and we are on the cutting edge of that momentum. There is so much at stake here: the very future of empathy, compassion, and love as we know it. Are these qualities strengths or weaknesses? Is the human conscience a brilliant evolutionary step for mankind, or is it a convenient vulnerability to be exploited?

From abusive partners to corporate manipulators to the lying politicians who run this world, we’ve reached a breaking point. It is not possible to coexist with people who actively seek to harm & control others. Evil isn’t some sort of obscure concept anymore—it has a name. And because of that name, a skyrocketing number of us have already joined together and validated what once seemed inexplicable.

But based on the percentage of psychopaths and narcissists in the general population, statistics would indicate that we’ve barely even scratched the surface. There are many millions more out there who still need answers—gentle, kind, good people who have been taught to doubt their greatest qualities. Dreamers who are one simple word away from finding freedom & transforming their entire lives.

You have all inspired me more than words can describe. Following the darkest time in my life, somehow I met people at every corner who wanted to make things better. You are founders, administrators, moderators, members, and lurkers. You are readers, an agent, and an editor. You are my mom, my dad, my brother, and my sister. You are teachers, therapists, and writers. Above all, you are friends. Every day, you remind me that there is so much beauty & magic in this world worth fighting for.”

Both of these incite a movement that is being led by abuse survivors in vulnerable states of mind and some who have been abused for years and years. The entire world is full of evil people according to these writings and those who have found the book and forum will battle the world and win. His own story with a person who is defined as a psychopath is a very short encounter yet he has all of this knowledge and information based on his personal experience? This doesn’t make any sense at all.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

 

Maria
It’s typical SJW rhetoric, about dreamers uniting and changing the world, though the desired end result is not clear. I can only assume they would like as many people as possible to be ”aware” (under the impression) they are surrounded by psychopaths and be ”aware” (under the impression) they bear 0 responsibility for their lives and actions.

He might be sincere in his intentions, who knows, but I’m sure he has no idea what he’s doing and the potential impact of spreading the witch hunt. He mentioned somewhere it would be good for psychopathy to be discussed in schools; imagine all those easily influenced kids adopting that kind of paranoia and labeling their peers as such for cheating, lying, selfishness, insensitivity etc.

I really doubt they know what a psychopath is. Maybe they started with the right idea and distorted it overtime.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

 

Sandra
I do believe you are correct, Maria, that their intentions were at one time good (and they still believe it so) but those best of intentions have spiraled out of control now and with dangerous and hurtful consequences to persons who really are mentally ill or need support for abuse. The platitudes of referring people who need real help to seek out a professional near them, or offering suicide hotline numbers, doesn’t absolve them of the fact that they are acting as mental health counselors. The growth of the site has contributed to the stardom of the author and his followers, yet I don’t know if they truly understand or know what they are doing. I find it strange that the department of health or the association of psychiatry hasn’t filed formal complaints.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

 

Sandra
I also wanted to add that Peru (who is an administrator on PF and says so on Amazon under her real name) and others try to defend the discipline actions of the site in Peace’s Amazon review threads. The one member in particular, named Terry on Amazon, was banned from PF and has written a lengthy review in addition to responding to others who have validated him. There are a lot of deleted comments there, too, which leads me to believe that either Amazon is keeping a close eye on this or people are changing their minds and deleting comments out of fear or anger or something. I bring this up because K. Gray has referenced it as a vendetta thread and that all the people who are contributing to it have been banned at one time or another from the site (those are K. Gray’s words and it is obvious that she is also an administrator of PF). I imagine it’s a joke amongst the administrators, yet it appears they follow it closely. Calling it a vendetta thread is just an attempt to minimize the damage that is being done to people over there. The fact is that hurt individuals have no place to go after they have been kicked off either to grieve or process what has just happened.

Terry’s Amazon comment that has turned into a lengthy discussion (98 posts today) is NOT a vendetta thread. It is a very small sampling of brave people coming forth to voice their hurt, sadness and fear in what has happened to them within that controlled community. Most others have just walked away, and others have stated on Amazon that they simply don’t want to take on the fight as life is too short. The link to this blog needs to be more readily available. These huge online forums that have an influx of members and tons of recognition need to be checked out.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Sandra
You’ve quoted Peace above as saying about his new book: “Through simple word of mouth, we saw PF hit #1 new release for Abuse, Personality Disorders, and Domestic Violence. Books get passed from clients to therapists, from patients to doctors, from defendants to lawyers, and suddenly awareness spreads like wildfire.”

In the real world (outside of cyberland), none of these professions would reference a memoir or a self-help book that is not endorsed by licensed professionals. To date, I know of no expert in the field of psychiatry who has endorsed the Psychopathfree book or survivor site. In addition, I reviewed the agenda and call for papers on the national council for divorce and family legal representatives several months back and it was full of seasoned researchers who only follow best practice.

To say that clients and patients and defendants are giving this book to licensed therapists, medical doctors and trained lawyers and awareness is spreading like wildfire is implying the abused have more knowledge than these professionals and that the pros are listening! How does he know this? Has he conducted a qualitative study of the numbers or is he just listening to the few persons on the forum who are saying they are doing this? How many? Therapists, doctors and lawyers have ethical standards they must follow or they lose their licenses and ability to practice what they’ve spent years training to do. Do you really think they are going to chance losing their credentials over a small book about one man’s run-in with a psychopath? Not going to happen. If at best the responses are probably ‘interesting information and thank you for passing that on.’

And a note about psychiatry here: there have been lively discussions on PF about psychiatrists, therapists and medication. You learn very quickly not to contribute to those discussions if you believe in these professions or have a good therapist or are doing well on a medication.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

 

Maria
Logically, I fully agree with you; his prospects are delusional. But looking at how far SJW’s have managed to go lately, against all common sense, I’m not sure.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

 

Sandra
Well then what can be done? Do you wait and pray that these fads and movements run their course? Do you wait for more and more people to complain about how the forums are run? Or is it just something that is left alone because there’s no real harm in what is being done?

I remember at one time there was a post about the possibility of a forum being opened for teens because they had run an advertisement about it via the facebook and the outpouring of responses from teens was unbelievable. I can’t believe teens being involved in this sort of a format if it is harming so many adults.

Who polices internet social justice warriors? And anonymous ones at that?

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

 

Maria
The best we can probably expect is that people find this information before they register; if it keeps a few from doing so the time put into it was worth it. I honestly expect the problem to get worse, as it’s not only forums but also pop-psychologists and the likes who push the fact that there are far more psychopaths and narcissists among us than we think.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

 

Sandra
I agree that it’s not really about big numbers of people finding out the truth about these sites, as much as it is about keeping the information here available for anyone who finds it. I don’t think that those who have been banned or who are trying to voice their disdain on the Amazon review site are going to make a dent in that monster. Those leaders know this, and they have honed in on their skills to keep appealing to the masses. Anyone who questions what they are doing or calls them out on the site or on the facebook page is considered psychopathic themselves and looks very deranged actually.

It IS cult like behavior. Peace’s overuse of the word psychopath is a very clever advertising hook. His story is on that site and he has a very, very short-run in with his gay lover who turned out to emotionally abusive to him unlike the thousands of persons who visit the facebook page and site who have had lifetimes of abuse with unwell persons. He has then built this psychopathfree book and site and following based on his one short run-in yet has used all of the thousands of stories from others to hone in on his writing of articles. He has very little presence on that site yet when he does show up and write something, people swarm to his comments.

Rolling personality disorders (bipolar, narcissist, etc) under one umbrella by using this one term is very dangerous and a disservice to the psychiatric profession. They give no logical reason on the site as to why they dismiss all diagnoses and just use the one word, other than they are different than the other sites and persons out their in the psychopathic awareness movement, and then a vanilla claim here or there that they aren’t mental health professionals. That’s a mind twister right there.

I’ve mentioned elsewhere here that there is not one expert in the world of psychiatry that has endorsed Peace and his leaders of that site. This is because they are acting as pop psychologists and simply ignoring it. I do know, however, that there are people lurking on that sight who are analyzing what’s going on and are in positions to make formal complaints and reports to the American Psychological Association and the International Association of Applied Psychology.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

 

Stefan
I don’t want to spoil the party, but I see some patterns here, that remind me of what I saw on PF. On PF everyone is a “psychopath”, here everything is a “cult”. This is the internet – and this is not the place, where you can trust anyone – and nobody can trust YOU! So one thing is fore sure: You don’t have to trust me. 😉

I think, PF is not a healthy place for anyone, who has to deal with a personal trauma, like a divorce or abuse by high conflict people. But no internet community is the right place in such situations. There are toxic people who are lurking on recovery forums for their next victim. And every recovery forum hast to deal with this fact. It’s normal to be paranoid when you go online. It’s often harmful, when you are not paranoid. Is here anyone who is online without a firewall or a virus scanner?

Yes, PF is a dangerous place, but I don’t think it is dangerous because it is a community run by dangerous people. It is not a safe place, because there is no safe place in the internet and paranoia is more than normal in the world wide web. Everyone get’s paranoid, when he has to deal with people, who can hide behind an anonymous nickname. There’s not a troll or a psychopath behind every nickname on the internet, but there’s often not your best friend behind every nick, who posts something, you can relate to,

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

 

Maria
Fair enough.

It’s not a party in the slightest; none of this was brought forth by positive experiences. In my view it’s good that people are speaking out to shed some light on the squeaky-clean image of a gossip-ridden wasp’s nest posing as a support group. That’s what brought Scientology down, mind you.

Whereas it’s your full prerogative to not trust anyone on-line, it’s also other people’s full prerogative to trust their intuition. Right now, I understand intuition is telling quite a few people that speaking out is the right thing to do.

The ”place” you are referring to depends directly on the people who create and sustain it.

Having said that, good luck to you, God bless, and I hope sometime you will see that the distrust was unwarranted. 🙂

For what it’s worth, every interaction you had here was genuine.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

 

Sandra
I am very thankful for this blog because I have carried around angst and uncertainty and hurt about PF and how it’s run and what I saw happen to people for far too long. I actively participated enough there to see patterns of how they interact, how they bait and ban, and the worshiping mentality of vulnerable people. Since it is the only online forum I’ve ever participated in, it has affected me and I need to tell someone. You can not explain this to anyone who does not know about the site, the influence, the crap that goes on there. So for what it’s worth, just being able to share my few comments today has really truly helped me. Thank you.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

 

Maria
You needn’t thank me; thank you for sharing your experience. We are all in the same boat; I’m so glad people have the courage to speak up. PF seems to intimidate so many people nowadays. Hugs 🙂 .

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

 

Eileen
I recently read the most popular articles in PF library. I noticed that despite PF’s mission of “spreading psychopathy awareness”, PF never responded to the media that is the focus of discussion, just complaints about the wide spread damage such publications are causing due to lack of awareness:
https://www.psychopathfree.com/content.php?316-Wise-Psychopaths-Honest-Narcissists-Empathetic-Sociopaths-Other-Virtuous-Evil-People
This makes me wonder why was there never any action if “spreading psychopathy awareness” is the mission of PF and the media posts were deemed damaging.

The call for donations to support “spreading psychopathy awareness” also has some strange claims:
https://www.psychopathfree.com/misc.php?do=donate&tabid=54. If the resource is paid through ads, how are these contributions being directed to help specific numbers of survivers (5,000 at click of a button)?

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

 

Sandra
Peace is using all the funds that come in to secure that website so that people can not infiltrate it or try to crash it. He posted a public account about a year ago of evil persons trying to shut down the site and how his tech people worked all night as saving it. If he is indeed trying to get a nonprofit status (and he has a moderator supposedly with expert experiencing helping him do this as he thanks her publicly in his posts about the nonprofit), then perhaps he’ll make the finances of this site public. Anyway you look at all of this, it’s some sick and twisted manipulative stuff going on. What’s most disturbing is that those few leaders of the site are so conditioned to believe they are saving the world that they can no longer look within at what they are doing as hurtful and wrong.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

 

Maria
I can only speculate – what I’ve noticed about them is that they’re not keen on engaging the other side of the debate. They don’t talk to people; they talk at them. They post articles or threads and expect you to agree; if you don’t, they can easily shut you up as you’re on their turf.

If they were to start a campaign against the books and people they criticise as dangerous, on neutral ground (social media etc) it would invite the ”other side” to a discussion. I’m sure they treat people on their FB page in the same manner, but if they launched a public attack, they would attract criticism and in large numbers, people would call them out on their censorship.

They are right about the media painting an unrealistic picture of highly antisocial types, including psychopaths and that Fifty Shades of Grey is a piece of rubbish (undeserving of milder words) and the possibility of some people exploiting their diagnosis for financial gain.

But still I find Peace’s approach extremely naive, when proudly declaring psychopaths (as a whole, I take it) were ”afraid” of books such as his as they would be ”exposed for what they are”. Many people display antisocial traits; I’m sure they don’t all take on the label of psychopaths and live in fear of people ”exposing” them, like the un-dead who fear being exposed to sunlight. I’m sure they don’t all wake up and gloat in front of the bathroom mirror that no one has found them out yet. And I’m sure if his book seeps into the mainstream, they won’t lose any sleep at night thinking they would be ”exposed” and would never be able to ”victimise” again, which apparently is the point of their entire lives.

The way these fund raising campaigns work is quite blurry to most people, myself included. I remember that Kony 2012 campaign to raise awareness about child soldiers in Uganda, though some people thought Kony was already dead by that time. It rallied on-line ”armies” of SJW’s who raised a large sum of money; most of it went on expensive awareness-raising videos involving large groups of youth dancing in colourful outfits (I’m not sure if pom poms were involved as well), singing motivational songs about young people changing the world. And I’ve read similar stories about many popular charities today; most of the money goes on promoting the cause.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

 

Research Guy
PsychopathFree. OutoftheFog. Love Fraud. PsychopathyAwareness. Psychopaths and Love. Lisa E. Scott. Sandra Brown and The Institute / Safe Relationships. One Mom’s Battle. Thomas Sheridan.

It could be said that these are the most popular ‘Social Justice Warriors’ out there today. Some are catchy descriptors, while others are actual names of persons behind the sites. They all represent various awareness campaigns on psychopathology – the causes and processes of mental disorders. Common terminology, and even phrases and definitions, are shared by all of them making it is almost impossible to determine the original source – although many of them cite Martha Stout (psychologist and author) or Robert Hare (leading expert on criminal psychology and psychopathology). Along with endless Facebook pages, memoirs and self-help books, it seems everyone is on board ‘The Psychopath Awareness Cyber Train’ these days. Some have been conductors of their train for well over a decade. None are on board for a joyride, or doing it for free. 7 of the 9 listed above are not licensed professionals in the field of psychiatry, medical doctors or social workers for that matter. Almost all provide a disclaimer to this effect somewhere on their online site, yet continue to disseminate knowledge of mental disorders and offer strategies and support. How they run their forums, and the havoc that some of the moderating has caused, has begun to be discussed here and elsewhere, and that’s a very serious matter – especially when you take apart the who-what and why of self-proclaimed warriors.

Note the following information pulled directly from 7 websites / forums:

PSYCHOPATHFREE was supposedly founded by Jackson McKenzie (aka Peace), the author of the book under the same title, and is run by a handful of people who he considers dear friends, although there has been onoing dissention amongst those leaders that has led to poor reviews of his book / forum joint effort. According to his bio, he is: ‘a young gay guy who loves cats and Christmas. He works with a tech company in New England, and spends most of his free time hiking and taking bubble baths. You can find him on the PsychopathFree.com forum, mostly talking about coffee and pink wine these days’. The online site is as slick and functioning as they come with some of the most expensive, secure, state-of-the-art forum software, and major search engine optimization strategies available. In other words, it’s THE online presence, or the lead car of the cyber train so to speak. He doesn’t hide the fact that he works for a tech company, and the site’s awareness campaign donation page is easy on the eye and enduring to the heart. Clearly money and tech savvy-ness is the driving force behind PF’s lead.

LOVE FRAUD was created by Donna Anderson and is probably the second largest presence on the internet today with regards to psychopathy awareness: ‘Her prior career in journalism, advertising and marketing communications helped her to create an effective website. She was the original editor of Atlantic City Magazine from 1978 to 1982. She founded a boutique advertising agency, Donna Andersen Copywriting, in 1983. Her portfolio includes multimedia scriptwriting, freelance magazine articles, newsletters, print ads, brochures, direct mail, press releases, radio commercials, website content, e-mail campaigns and white papers.’ Clearly she’s used her training and talents in her psychopath campaign originating from her own experience with a former psychopathic husband. She has several books and conducts workshops all over the world. Donna’s forum is run by some bloggers also with background stories involving psychopaths (although she doesn’t like using that word, it seems).

OUT OF THE FOG is the next car on the awareness train and is: ‘an information site, support group and message board for people who are in a relationship with an individual who suffers from a personality disorder. We are a supportive, close-knit community, encouraging one another through the many challenges that come with having a family member or significant other who has a personality disorder. The Out of the FOG leadership team is the most experienced team of its kind in the world. We are unpaid volunteers who have years of experience living with someone who suffers from a personality disorder and who share a passion to educate and encourage others who find themselves lost in the “FOG”. We are a volunteer organization who rely on private donations and book sale commissions to offset the costs of running this site.’

PSYCHOPATHY AWARENESS was founded by Claudia Moscovici, the author of several books about psychopathic behavior. She is quick to offer the disclaimer that: ‘making a clinical diagnosis of personality disorders is, of course, only up to professional therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists. But identifying potentially dangerous traits isn’t just for experts. Any of us can be adversely affected when we allow disordered individuals into our lives. Therefore, knowledge is the most essential form of self-defense for all of us.’ Other sites tout her work and prominently display her books, so she can appear to be a leading expert in the field of psychopathy if one is not careful in researching her credentials.

PSYCHOPATHS AND LOVE states ‘I am a woman who experienced first hand what I write about, victimization by a high functioning, sub-criminal psychopath who caused great harm. I want to make it clear I am not a mental health professional.’ Enough said right there.

LISA E SCOTT is an enterprise with several books, videos, appearances and several interactive forums. The site claims that ‘we are not certified mental health professionals’. Although her site has several active forums, and a moderator who claims to have a mental health background, this site seems to have the most complaints and underhanded bashing on other online forums.

THOMAS SHERIDAN is an ‘Internationally renowned artist, author, musician, public speaker and independent researcher currently based in the West of Ireland. His illustrations have appeared on the cover of newstand magazines, books and websites worldwide. He is best known for being the author of the book Puzzling People: the Labyrinth of the Psychopath. The book was well received, becoming an underground success and has made Thomas’ entire body of work reach a much larger audience.’ He seems to have publicly distanced himself from the psychopathic awareness movement, yet PsychopathFree declares him public enemy #1 when a new member cites his work or a YouTube presentation appears on a thread.

. . . . .

The following two persons appear to be the most legitimate of all supports found online right now:

SANDRA BROWN seems to be the only licensed mental health care providers by trade seeming to be the most legitimate forms of online support: ‘The Institute and Safe Relationships Healing Sandra L. Brown, M.A. holds a master’s degree in counseling with a former specialization in personality disorders/pathology. She is a program development specialist, lecturer, community educator, and award-winning author. Her books include the award-winning Women Who Love Psychopaths: Inside the Relationships of Inevitable Harm with Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists, as well as How to Spot a Dangerous Man Before You Get Involved, and Counseling Victims of Violence: A Handbook for Helping Professionals. Sandra’s previous work included the founding and directing of a counseling center, which was a multi-faceted mental health treatment center. She also worked as a specialist in a women’s trauma inpatient hospital program.’

TINA SWITHIN / ONE MOM’s BATTLE is a divorce coach for anyone married to a narcissist. Her site claims that: ‘in my role as your Divorce Coach, I will serve as your thinking partner, confidant and together, we will work to find solutions and coping strategies. My goal is different for each client depending on the individual situation, custody battle or issues that are present. As a Divorce Coach who specializes in high-conflict divorce, I am not a legal specialist but if needed, I can work in conjunction with attorneys and other collaborative professionals. A Divorce Coach is not a therapist nor should they act as a therapist.’ And ‘her story had gained international media attention in publications such as Glamour Magazine, Washington Times, Huffington Post and the Examiner. Tina’s custody battle spanned from 2009 through 2014 and during this time, Tina acted as her own attorney against an individual who suffers from a Cluster B personality disorder.’ Tina is a self-proclaimed warrior for anyone fighting the dysfunction of family law courtrooms.

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What’s the point in sharing all of this? To show just how evasive this social warrior stuff can be. If you’re not careful, you can find yourself jumping from site to site and Facebook page to Facebook page completely saturated with all things psychopathy – yet most likely not under the guidance of a licensed mental health support person who actually does this work for a living. Many of these sites claim that even the world of psychiatry doesn’t know as much as they do, and that there does not exist qualified providers to help hurting people. One site in particular discredits psychiatrists and therapists every chance it gets inciting cyber lynch mobs to the point that people discuss one another’s medications and how they most likely aren’t working! This is all part of the campaign: keep the clicks coming, keep hunting through the forums in search of something that will relieve the pain, and then keep the donations pouring in.

Placing blind trust in slick campaigns is dangerous, as the articles on this blog explain. So read what you can to learn what you can if you need to, yet work at seeking real support in the real world. If you can sit at a computer for hours on end, day in and day out, surely you can spend that time interviewing and talking to and finding supports within your own community that can actively and safely help you rebuild your life outside of cyberland.

Step off the ‘Psychopath Awareness Cyber Train’ on the road to nowhere!

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

 

Maria
Thank you for commenting; it’s really good to have the information presented briefly and efficiently.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

 

Stefan
AFAIK psychopathfree was founded by Thomas Sheridan, but he left the site some years ago. It’s not easy to find reliable sources. Sheridan claims tat PF is associated with this strange cassiopaea/SOTT-cult, SOTT have a smear campaign against Sheridan and claim the he is a psychopath. This path to recovery seems to be a dirty one.

There are other “self help experts” on youtube, who are not better. Has anyone of you followed the Spartan Life Coach/Ross Rosenberg/Sam Vaknin-dispute in the last month?

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

 

Maria
I haven’t, but it would be interesting to follow, so thank you for that.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

 

Stefan
I found this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120529030059/http://psychopathfree.com/showthread.php?4-Welcome-Your-Healing-and-Restoration-Begins-Here

”
Greetings – psychopathfree.com was started in November 2011 as a result of individuals from various social networking and other message boards deciding that a global hub for people who have been targeted and/or abused by psychopaths was needed. This site was then created for targets of psychopathic abuse to share their stories and find healing within a safe and secure environment. Personal privacy and free information are the pillars on which psychopathfree.com is built.

Along with fair and vigilant moderation, we have created a friendly, relaxed and informative message board open to anyone who has been a target of a psychopath. We also serve as a vital resource for dealing with this often hidden scourge which is attacking the human race, and which is only now becoming a mainstream issue.

IMPORTANT: As psychopathfree.com is only concerned with defending empathic men and women from psychopathic abuse and manipulation – we have zero tolerance for any form of bullying, racism, sectarianism, homophobia and sexism. We also do not allow the real names/photos of abusers posted – unless they appear in the media as a result of court cases etc.

Thomas Sheridan”

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

 

Maria
He obviously had all the right intentions; the crowd that took over is a whole different story.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

 

Sandra
Thanks for this information!! I have always found it strange that the administrators call out anyone who posts anything about Thomas Sheridan almost immediately, and they have members so worked up about this guy that mention of him is reported. They have standard statements that they use and ask people to not quote him or even use his name. Usually the members quote him or post a video with sentiment that he is very helpful and knowledgeable, then they turn to apologizing profusely once reprimanded. The moderator I was chums with shared that Peace and these women who run his forums are all friends from various places in the world, as I’ve mentioned before, so this makes sense. The moderators on the site have been picked up from members who show some kind of promise, I guess, although there have been several who have left the past several months.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

 

 

Stefan
I’m not sure about Thomas Sheridan. Maybe he is on another page than “Peace”, maybe he is on the same page and both struggle for attention. For my taste Thomas Sheridan is involved in too much esoteric knick-knacks, conspiracy theories and other stuff…

Have you been to a universtity? For Thomas Sheridan you have been on a death cult.

http://thomassheridanofficialblog.blogspot.de/2015/08/university-death-cult-for-middle-classes.html

Sorry, but no, I don’t think this guy is healthy.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

 

Maria
Thomas Sheridan is a decent person with a lot of common sense.

I’ve heard many of his talks and whilst I don’t agree with him on everything, no people ever do agree a hundred percent.

What is relevant to this discussion is that he is spot on regarding the psychopathy hysteria and has seen it evolve from inside the group.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

 

Maria
That may be the root of some of the behaviour, if they really are convinced they are exposing psychopaths. However, they also engage in blatant lying and smear campaigns, as well as unfounded accusations, rumourmongering and hypocrisy; if they don’t know these are all blatantly wrong they have no moral compass.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

 

Sandra
What do all of those acronyms mean Stefan?

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

 

Stefan
AFAIK = As far as I know
PF = PsychopathFree
SOTT = I think it stands for “Sign of the times”.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

 

Sandra
Thanks, Stefan, for defining the acronyms.

Regarding Thomas Sheridan, there was a falling out with him, Peace and et al for sure back in the early days of that group. Members today are led to believe that it’s Sheridan who is the evil and dark vs Peace who is light and love. I think they are both extremes and I don’t find it appealing to read or listen to anything either one of them has to say, really. As another person summized here yesterday or today, psychopathy information is all the same. They are all plagiarizing one another or at least the psychology researchers. The internet is saturated with it. It’s all about how the package is wrapped up and delivered these days. Personal preferences play a big role in where you plant yourself on these sites and forums. Do you like the shiny, bright clean version or the dark, scary, sad stuff?

I also wanted to agree with Mia in that PF moderators truly are fixated on the psychopath hunt and definitely have their own issues. I can’t imagine reading day in and day out all of the dark and sad that people share, congregating behind the scenes and discussing and planning what to do with the endless reports, and then getting in those long, drawn out battles prior to bans. When do you break from that? How do you pull yourself away from all of that and assume a semi-normal existence?

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

 

Stefan
Does anyone of you know why this site http://aftermath-surviving-psychopathy.org/ gets so little attention? At first sight it looks like just another recovery group, but when you look at the people behind the site, you wonder, why this is not the number one forum about psychopathy: http://aftermath-surviving-psychopathy.org/index.php/aftermath-board-of-directors/
They have a community, but there was no traffic since 2012.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

 

Sandra
I have seen this site before, Stefan, and if you look at the board you will see some pretty solid credentials in psychiatry and law. My guess is that 1) these people’s research and jobs really began to limit them in running an online site. It’s a huge amount of time to monitor a website activity that focuses on psychopathy. And 2) look at their rules: http://www.aftermath-surviving-psychopathy.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=400 That’s a lot of monitoring to be done on incoming comments. You can see the traffic that some of the larger forums out there receives. And 3) how do you NOT offer some sort of mental health support with abuse survivor’s who show up AND deal with troll behavior? The licensed professionals on that board of directors list know that they can not do on an online forum (for free anyway) what they do in real life which is therapy and legal advice. It’s unethical. That’s why so many other sites have a disclaimer that none of them are licensed mental health experts, legal personal, etc.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

 

Maria
That make sense.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

 

Stefan
I see your point. It’s too much work for the experts on psychopathy to deal with everyone who thinks she/he was involved with a psychopath. But there’s something that is bothering me. They started their website and they started it long before PsychotpathFree and other websites try to concure the market.

About Aftermath

“In the spring of 2006, Professor of Psychology and psychopathy researcher, David Kosson, Ph.D., began to gather a group of volunteers to start an organization to provide help as well as education to those whose lives have been impacted by psychopathic individuals. He hoped the group would be a coalition of researchers, clinicians and survivors.

The group began after Robert Hare, Ph.D. posted a notice about the group on the Darkstone Research website. A number of people responded to the notice and began offering their time and energy to put the group together. It was quickly decided to try to form a website which would be a source of information about psychopathy and a place where victims/survivors of relationships with individuals with psychopathic features could come together to offer support for each other and ask questions about the nature of psychopathy and its impact on people. In the summer of 2007, Paul Babiak, Ph.D., the author of Snakes in Suits, joined the group. Dr. Hare, through the Darkstone Research Group and the Cheryl Wynne Hare Memorial Fund has generously supported our work.”

Fact is, the experts have left the field in the internet for people like Peace or other teddybear-cowboys. I understand, that People like Robert Hare, David Kosson or Paul Babiak don’t have the time to run an online community. But they have started the whole thing before 2010 – and I think, they should look at, what others do with their concept of “Surviving Psychopathy is dedicated to educating the public regarding the nature of psychopathy and its cost to individuals and society.”

I know, that people like Robert Hare don’t have the time too deal with every individual, who was (or thinks she/he was) a victim of a psychopath. But I think they should have an eye on sites like PsychopathFree and and give experts advice for people who are searching for answers.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

 

Sandra
Completely agree with everything you have shared, Stefan. I have to believe that these researchers know what is going on out there, yet why they don’t report it to APA or US Dept of Health is the mystery. It has always concerned me that survivor’s, like Peace and his admin / mod crew for example, can actually get away with offering mental health support — yet try to mask it as something different. It’s exactly what they are doing. They are addressing crises day in and day out. They are actually first responders to mental trauma. Are they trained as first responders? I don’t think one of them is, otherwise they would not operate their site under anonymous names. Members can remain anonymous, of course, but why should those running the support site?

I’m thinking that the people we’ve highlighted from that earlier site have seen how immense it all has become and how many wackos are out there and how volatile and ugly these forums have become. I would bet on it that is the reason they have distanced themselves, and instead are continuing to focus on scholarly books, seminars, their private practices. I wonder why the site is still up, though. The last activity I can see is from 2014. That’s fairly recent.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

 

Lisa
I had a brief correspondence with Thomas Sheridan not long after I was booted from PF. Seeing as I was accused by a senior member of being Sheridan — and because I was curious about what happened between Sheridan and Peace, in particular, I felt compelled to contact him and get HIS side of the story.

I was able to do a certain amount of preliminary research online. The controversial ‘horrendous’ events, involving Sheridan, were being framed by what I consider a disreputable, online ‘group’ — (don’t be afraid to use the ‘c’ word here, or words. They both have ‘u’ as a second letter, too. And, by golly, same last letter. I see a clear pattern here!)

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

 

Maria
Even when people abhor each other, there should be a limit of decency to what they’re willing to do, and by the looks of it, they have no limit whatsoever.

That must be why many are still scared of them and delete their posts about them; there must be a prevailing fear they will be targeted.

In my mind there’s no doubt a community which spreads so much fear has little positive effect, and when it does, as some argue, it comes at a high price.

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

 

Lisa
Woops, got cut off there.

I won’t go into the origin of the nonsense, just to say that it all seems to have begun with said ‘c’ group, who will remain nameless, taking exception to some of Thomas’s views on the origins of psychopathology and some signs of psychopathy.

Personally, I wonder about some of those signs too, but any minor differences of opinion wouldn’t motivate me or anyone near normal person to go on a Swiftian search and destroy mission against the author, in a digital intra-Lilliputian egg war.

Peace was contacted and dragged into this overblown drama, I am supposing. He was genuinely alarmed, it seems, and instead of supporting TS, he joined the ‘egging’ war. He was literally egged on by the, ‘c’ crew. Had he remained calm and cool, reflected for a few weeks or even months about it all, he and Sheridan might still be friends.

And it all devolved from there, with TS being ‘outed’ as a psychopath himself. And who among us hasn’t received similar treatment? I was a social deviant and negative things were said or implied about me. And even though they didn’t reveal my actual identity they impugned the person behind the alias I used on the forum.

Sheridan was not only hurt by this, his entire career and livelihood could have been threatened.

He is NOT a psychopath. I don’t know him really well, at all, but he seems to be a regular guy who has been the victim of mob psychology, probably perpetuated by two individuals, in particular, who are either borderline personalities, or victims of fundamentalism and the narcissism of small differences.

Maria has taken a surgeon’s scalpel to PF forums, dissecting their potential for harm, describing it and documenting it. And as she describes, this is just one of the modern manifestations of fundamentalism and extreme intolerance masquerading as the very opposite. Bravo Maria! Keep up the good work!

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

 

Maria
What was written here is nothing new, yet the issues still go unacknowledged and that forum keeps on insulting people while collecting their information, day in and day out.

About the smear campaign they carried out against Thomas Sheridan – I think the meaning of the word ”friend” is someone who would never turn against you viciously, no matter what. When true friends strongly disagree, they will at the most stop speaking to each other, but won’t go after each other with the intention of causing actual harm. How can you trust anyone in this world if the people you rely on turn around and demonise you from one day to the next, based only on their fruitful imagination?

Unfortunately, I’ve seen that done by social justice warriors on dozens of occasions. If they set their eyes on a target for a thought crime, they have no limits; they want the person discredited, fired, ruined. At times they pick on a person’s family as well.

There was a recent example of a cafe owner from Dublin who was targeted by vegans on social media, for saying it would be good for them to announce their visit beforehand, as they didn’t always have vegan meals just ready to go. Just through the power of social media, they gathered a crowd and started leaving negative reviews for his business, from across the globe, without ever going there. His response was hilarious; he said if any vegans showed up he would shoot them. As they have no sense of humour, they actually took that seriously and got even more hysterical.

They’re like killer bees or some zombie army; one gives the signal and the others follow. I’m not sure you’ve seen the movie ”Infected”; they’re better organised; that’s all. Though they remind me more of the crowd in ”The Wicker Man”, to be honest. 🙂 Trying to sacrifice others ”for the common good”.

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

 

Lisa
Yep, I don’t know if I get the degree of anger motivating someone to want to annihilate somebody over a difference of opinion, disappointment in their behaviour, or an ideological dispute.

It’s not like the victim of a vendetta is living next door and encouraging their Great Dane to take a dump on a Vegan’s (in this instance) lawn, or playing Barry Manilow super loud, on an ancient 8 track player, or hurling stewing beef over the fence.

I figure what might be happening is certain triggers serve as lightening rods for general discontent. The world is becoming increasingly complicated with a tremendous amount of moral ambiguity.

People like their comfortable medieval archetypes that simplify things for them. It turns their lives into a cartoon-i-verse circling around the black hole of their rage.

Like all black holes, it consumes everything, including light. So any hopes of illumination radiating from this type are illusory. Moreover they will literally be consumed by their own rage, eventually.

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

 

Maria
They must be very miserable and must live in a stat of paranoia besides their entitlement, if their way of relating to society is a paradigm of groups or individuals trying to literally destroy each other.

It does sound mediaeval, like chopping up someone’s head for blasphemy or insulting the king. In fact, some countries still do that nowadays.

The first thing a healthy person wonders when feeling rage and the desire to strike back is if it’s worth it and if what they plan to do is proportional to what was done to them.

You don’t destroy or endanger someone’s livelihood and that of their family for a few words, for daring to defy your views. That’s how I find radical lefties despicable and not liberal in the slightest, they sound more like Nazis every day.

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

 

Maria
They must perform some kind of check during registration as well, as sometimes they disable it temporarily. I’m still curious whether they show you a Terms of Service page (as I don’t recall seeing any) and if it mentions anything about the use of your data.

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

 

Lisa
Cafe Owner would deserve that kind of treatment if he was a cannibal serving Vegans. And I mean serving them FOR dinner. Boggles the mind what some people freak out about these days. I try to stay away from factory farmed food — but don’t engage in vendettas! That’s not going to win hearts and minds.

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

 

Maria
I’ve heard decent people who happen to be vegans advocate their cause in a decent way and I respect that (except it has been proven detrimental to people’s health and can lead to a vast array of physical and mental problems which creep in overtime). The mental ones become obvious, I see.

But radicals are completely nuts.

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

 

Thomas Sheridan
Hi All,

I would be very happy to answer any questions you have for me here. I have nothing to hide in terms of my personality and humanity and anything you want to ask of me will be only to happy to answer. All the the best.

MARCH 12, 2016

 

Maria
Hi Thomas,

Tank you for taking the time to do that. Not sure where to start though.

MARCH 12, 2016

 

Lisa
Hi Thomas,
I was confused about your own opinions regarding social justice warriors but understand now. Thank you for pointing me in the right (omg — I mean ‘correct’ direction😀)

Very good to see you here! Hope all is well!

MARCH 12, 2016

 

Lisa
Thomas,

Yes, where to start? I would like to know more about any links Psychopath Free has with the SOTT community that you know to be true, past or present.

Also, if you could provide any speculations and conjecture about those links it would be interesting.

It would also be very helpful to clearly differentiate between conjecture and what you know to be true for legal reasons.

Thanks!

Lisa

MARCH 12, 2016

 

Thomas Sheridan
When I left the forum in September 2012 (I was not booted out, I left because I wanted to move on and do other things and I left without a fuss turning the finances over without been being asked). “All good” I thought to myself and that was that. Until personal friends (PF members) here in Ireland called me up the next morning in shock at what was being said about me. It was September 30th – my birthday and they knew it… Nice eh? They were also getting mass PMs from PF mods with bullshit websites attacking me with all kinds of lies and distortions. It was a strategic character assassination undertaken by people I had always treated with kindness and respect. It was like I had entered a different reality. I also suspect it was planned well in advance.

Peace (Jackson McKenzie) threw open the door to literally a mass invasion by the saucer people in order to attack me and destroy my humanity. Central to this was the instant bonding between McKenzie (Peace) and one of them named Betsy Ashby who is world class lunatic and on line gang stalking terrorist allegedly connected to a murder-by-suicide of a man she targeted in the USA (goggle it) until he allegedly shot himself according to his widow. PF mods were fully aware of her history when they molly coddled her on the forum. I was also being subjected to abusive anonymous private messages and emails claiming I had a ‘head full of syphilis worms’ and should ‘kill myself’ from unhinged people caught up in the witch hunt. It was a completely surreal episode that would have had many people probably kill themselves. Looking back on it now, I can see this might have been the intention. I had paid money out of my own pocket to start the forum up. Gave gifts of artwork and so on the mods to thank them. Been kind and respectful and look how they thanked me?!!?!

What was my great crime against the human race and teddy bear’s picnics by the way? Writing political satire on an Irish newsgroup 16 years previously to do with the troubles in Ireland. So I had written things on there – with people who are my mates to this day sending up the IRA ‘Sinn Fein Sex Chat lines’ that kind of thing and slagging off a racist group called the Irish Nationalist Network. Every and anything that could be made to make me look evil was pulled up and quoted wildly out of context. The frenzy was so intense that many of the posts they used as ‘evidence’ were not even mine. At the centre of this psychotic and vicious smear campaign was Peace with the teddy bear profile pic and his posts about loving Winnie the Pooh (awwwww so sensitive…you can trust him!!!)

Anyone who follows my FB page knows that I am always joking around, taking the piss, telling smutty jokes and posting satire. This, along with my other and diverse work is the why MANY THOUSANDS people of follow me and love it. I use ‘rude’ language, because this is how I am. I do not give a shit people don’t like this! That’s their own subjective issue not mine. My books Puzzling People and Defeated Demons are filled with four letter words to make points. I do stand-up comedy events in top Dublin comedy clubs for charity, and apparently this is all proof of me being pure evil!!!” and ‘mentally ill’.

People who stood up for me (which was almost everyone except PF mods and their flying saucer associates) in some cases had their real life names and identities posted publicly by an New Age malicious fruitloop name Alison Gunson – putting these women in EXTREME danger. It was like something out of the Middle Ages. A witch-hunt mass hysteria.

So basically, I was declared the most evil human in creation for being a funny bastard and SHOCK being a regular guy who stands up to bullshit. It was not only a vicious smear campaign by a group that claims to be against pathological behaviour, but also out and out lies and gaslighting – attempting to alter reality to turn it into things it was not.

My response at the time?

I mean, I could have named all the PF mods and their personal histories and destroyed their lives in revenge. Yet even with all this I was pretty much a gentleman and refrained for doing anything like this. Even after all this I would never drag another person’s private life into the open. Personal privacy is personal privacy. You never bring another person family or privacy into the public domain. I find such behaviour an abomination. Even the Mafia won’t target family.

So what happened next? The lies then manifested, and Peru’s tour of the internet making sure I was wiped off the face of the earth. Until she sent a message to a guy in England named Dom and who met me personally and I asked him to go public (on Facebook) with her disgusting lies and slander against me. How did she react? Defend? Present proof? Nah… Ran away ‘triggering’ saying her life was in danger (lol oh the irony!) after she was subjected to a torrent of ‘you liar!!!’ by my real life friends who know me and the kind of person I am. While she was begging Dom to remove the slanderous message she sent about me from the public domain. I was perfectly happy with her slander up there so all the world could see this. It was bullshit! Total fucking bullshit.

and all this for what? Fecked if I know! Being a decent and well liked fella from Dublin? Not beleive in challening aliens? Where are all these people I have ‘abused’ and ‘destroyed’??? How many have come forward? ZERO. Because there are none. They do not exist except in the minds of delusional psychotics and psychopaths on the make who hate my guts with an intensity I can hardly being myself to imagine. I am not saint. Never said I was. But I am pretty sure I am better human being than most of the ones who have tried to destroy my entire life for little or no reason.

MARCH 13, 2016

 

Thomas Sheridan
This is the kind of ‘pure evil’ I have been posting for most of my life to send up the absurdities of life. It is called satire. What a horrible, evil man I must be and deserving of being driven to poverty and suicide…

Life I say in my books and talks. People with a lack of an authentic personality construct do not get satire…

I’ll never stop and vast numbers of people love it.

MARCH 13, 2016

 

Maria
People who lack a sense of humour can be very dangerous (and as far as I know are not very bright). A few decades ago, in communist countries, a simple joke was very dangerous, in any possible environment (even at home, as one could have family members who were government spies). Let alone trying that in a pub (those had their informants) or any public place. These people have no idea what kind of society they’re pushing for (though mentally they’re already so conditioned they would happily enforce any PC standards). Unfortunately for them, one day their turn will come to say something ”wrong” in the ”wrong” company.

Satire is incredibly powerful in a depressing world.

MARCH 14, 2016

 

Thomas Sheridan
Sorry the typos as my keyboard is crap.

MARCH 13, 2016

 

Lisa
Thomas,

Thank you. The take I have on your situation on PF is that ‘Peace,’ was enamoured of the idea of taking control of the forum and using it as a spring board to promote his own agenda. Plus, he seems to be highly histrionic, impressionable, and hypocritical.

I have never encountered a meaner bunch than the mods there. I was blindsided by the innuendo and subsequent cyber-kangaroo court treatment I received after being banned. It was insane — like reliving the discard of a psychopath all over again.

How gushy terms of endearment can turn, on a dime, into what seems like real blood lust, is so weird and so shocking to those who have gone through it.

Peace claims to like bubble baths. I hope it isn’t too grosse to say that his love of bubble baths seems to extend to marinating in the raging spittle foam of his Harpy mod ‘friends.’

It’s interesting (and was tragic for you) that through that forum, you experienced the same type of shock, awe, hurt and anger as those who are targeted by P’s in romantic relationships. They were your friends and they betrayed you utterly and then went on to try and destroy you.

I don’t think Peace and mods are psychopaths, but they have the zealot’s ability to instantly lose empathy for anyone who they consider, ‘the enemy.’

I am so sorry this happened to you. Huge betrayal trauma.

I will google the individual responsible for suicide. These people are going to reap the whirlwind because they have many interested and critical parties looking into their activities, now. Finally. I am fascinated. I lurked on the saucer forum, you speak of, for a while, as they represent just one of many groups that could mushroom out of control, in the future.

They have a huge side interest in P’s and some of the weirdest ass theories about how extra dimensionals relate to that personality deformity. Truly crazy. Even though ultimate reality is stranger than we can imagine, we have to be able to create a strong circumstantial case for, if not proof of our theories, particularly those with potential for blowback, witch hunt dynamics.

Apologies to Maria for being so wordy!

MARCH 13, 2016

 

Maria
Thank you as always for commenting and I don’t understand what that apology would be for. I wholly agree reality is so complex compared to what we are taught to notice on a daily basis (what we are taught actually matters). But just as no one should try to push their religion on others, that goes for any type of belief others can’t personally verify. I’m not trying to dismiss whatever experience all these people claim to have had, but that’s a long way from taking their conclusions seriously, especially when their behaviour is so unhealthy. A few months ago I remember visiting their website and reading something like ”you are here because you no longer trust your own mind”. Something like that. That’s like saying ”if you can’t trust your mind, hand it over to us; we’ll fix your perceptions”. It’s creepy.

MARCH 14, 2016

 

Thomas Sheridan
I was more hurt by the lies and backstabbing as it really shocked me at the time. The bombastic, histrionic hysteria of it. I have moved on with my life and I got myself a job in retail and I keep my toes in the water with small projects and the like. My career as a writer has been almost completely destroyed by the smear campaign. I will continue to write on the topics that interest me as I enjoy writing for the sake of it.

More than anything else, I am disgusted at how they have trivialised psychopathy and made it seem like anyone who has a contrary life view to them is some kind of psychopath. This is simply outrageous and proves they do not actually know what a psychopath is. It also encourages people in states of trauma to dehumanise others who may have not intentionally hurt them. Removes the complexity from human life and relationship dynamics and boils it down to people becoming eternal victims of ‘psychopaths’ rather than maturing as adults with good social intelligence. Puts them in a paranoid state and forever damages their social potential in later life as everyone is a ‘psychopath’.

Thanks Lisa.

MARCH 13, 2016

 

Maria
Thomas,

Thank you for sharing that very intense and personal story; it must’ve been very difficult to make sense of why people would suddenly behave like that. It’s always terrible when a person you once trusted turns against you with such spite and actually tries to destroy you. I can’t even imagine what it’s like to face an entire crowd of them.

It also says so much that some of them are willing to reveal others’ identities and put them at risk of being targeted by their abusers. So much for standing up for their so-called peers.

MARCH 14, 2016

Thomas Sheridan
No worries Maria. I honestly don’t know the depths of their connection to the flying saucer channelling people. How formal it is. Peace and the other PF mods may have just used them to have a go at me, as they had all expressed hatred for the leaders to me before the ‘alliance’. So Peace/Jackson McKenzie may have just love bombed the leadership as part of his quest to become the Oprah of Recovery and then discarded them when they served their purpose?

Who knows really. No one can doubt his incredible success with this achievement. Psychopathfree has the absolute and total monopoly on the topic and probably always will. Individuals such as Donna Anderson of Lovefraud have been basically removed from their once lofty position by the absolute monopoly of Jackson McKenzie and PF, and when anyone thinks ‘psychopath information’ the first and only port of call is PF. Can’t ever see that changing now. I can honestly see the day when Peace has his own talk show on TV at the rate they are going. PF really is a colossal industry at this point.

MARCH 14, 2016

 

Delta
I have been reading these comments in a state of disbelief as they fully explain the appalling treatment I received on PF after being a member for a few years. As I had not been very active on the PF forum until last year, I was utterly unaware of the forum history and its problems. Similarly, I did not appreciate the fact that the admins have an approved lists of authors and, in one of the forum threads, I expressed my agreement with some of Thomas Sheridan\\\’s views (who\\\’s book I was just reading, having found it on Amazon by keyword search for \\\”psychopath\\\”). What followed was mind-numbing: I was faced with an avalanche of incredibly intimidating, aggressive responses from one of the admins (later joined by two other admins as well as a few other scandalised members) who taxed very quickly my digression from the forum-approved propaganda. I was promptly labelled a troll and I was insulted in multiple ways. The admin who initiated the attack on me was rude to the point of vulgarity and displayed a bullying behavoiur akin to that of the suspected psychpath who landed me on that forum. Needless to say, my account got deleted within 24 hours from the start of the attack (deleted from public view, as I have no doubt, it is all \\\”safely\\\” stored in their databases).

In the space of 2-4 weeks they got rid of at least three established members who disagreed with their black and white views on psychopathy or who accused them of unfair or bullying behavoiur.

To my mind, PF is an illustration of Orwell\\\’s Thought Police in action – diverge from the Party line and its fanatical, repressive ideology and they\\\’ll come to get you! And you will pay!

Distressing, dangerous \\\”support community\\\”. God, I wish I\\\’d known what they do a lot sooner.

Just as an aside, my impression from reading recently the posts of some of the older members is that membership to that \\\”community\\\” prevents them from moving on with their lives rather than helping them overcome the trauma. That site propagates an eternal state of \\\”healing\\\” aka feeling sorry for ourselves, demonising the psychopaths (yes, I WAS a victim of one and I know the damage they cause so I\\\’m not defending them in any way), while portraying survivors as the absulte angels of society. Such exaggerated projection of the victims\\\’ qualities, contrasted against the \\\”absolute filth of society\\\”, the Cluster B individuals, not only offers an unrealistic black and white view of the world but also provides such a convenient refuge for victims and survivors from personal responsibility and introspection. In another thread on PF I tried to draw attention to that aspect by referring to the fact that Sandra Brawn, who conducted a psychological study on a group of victims, discusses at lenghth the personal attributes of the victims that make them susceptible to abuse. That impotant point, was, of course, ignored by the \\\”community\\\” as it did not play the tune of victim mentality favoured by PF. A victim can do no wrong, a victim is perfect and there is nothing she/he could have done to prevent or evade the abuse. So discussing what the victim/survivor can change is futile.

I do find the PF culture and mentality very disturbing. It wish reputable mental health organisations got involved to regulate the activity of such sites. They are simply dangerous in my opinion.

JUNE 27,2016

Maria
Hi Delta,

Yes, I’d say that as well. Anything that claims to help people move on but gets them stuck deeper in their negative emotional state is dangerous. It can only drag people down (lower than they already are). Bitterness is not a solution. It only eats away at the person who is suffering in the first place (the person making them suffer will not care regardless).

JUNE 27, 2017

 

Delta
Yes, it does. Moreover, it’s abuse and rejection once again for the dissident members, not to mention the not so trivial consequences of gang bullying. It is horrendous.

I don’t know what happened to my formatting in the previous text and why the multiple backslash signs. Also, it is Sandra Brown.

JUNE 27, 2017

 

Maria
Don’t worry about it.

That is precisely why I decided to start the blog, as what’s happening there is the exact opposite of what they claim, and sometime down the line most members will realise it. It’s just unfair to unsuspecting people who already have so much to deal with emotionally.

JUNE 27, 2017

 

Delta
I regret not bring more caution when I joined the PF site but I was going through a very traumatic time in my life and I was vulnerable and desperate. Most people are in fragile states when they get recruted and indoctrinated by the PF “leaders” and they miss the obvious, jumping in without the due diligence checks. The fact that they lure people in moments of weakness with promises of protection and support , only to deliver the opposite, is very callous and repulsive on their part. Isn’t this what only a psychopath or narcissist would do, devalue and discard someone who is no.longer useful to you??

On PF somebody can go from being called a “survivor” to a “troll” in the space of a few hours. As simple as that. EVIDENTLY they knew that I was no “intruder” but the fact that I rebelled against their mantra generated sheer hysteria and indignation in the PF community. One of the admins could hardly control her anger as I opposed her unsubstantiated views and proceeded right away with bullying comments. She came across to me as rude, ignorant and VERY self-regading – (she simply could not believe that for me she was just an obscure name and that I could not possibly have remembered that I had asked HER a question on another thread a few days before! Surely, I MUST remember HER!!! Errr… I remember her now after her aggression on PF but before she was like a drop in the sea . Anyway, this admin was plain nasty and vindictive to me.

Tonight I was alerted to the fact that the admins did not delete my posts on PF as they claimed to have done when they suspended my account. Apparently my messages are still there. So bullying first, now evidence of lying? Their last message to me clearly states that my posts have been deleted at my request. Well, that is a LIE.

I honestly do not know who is more disordered in all of this: my ex or those with the God complex who control the “mental concentration camp” represented by PF.

My experience with PF had been plain distressing and damaging. Stay away people!

JUNE 27, 2017

 

Maria
Apparently they do that a lot (fail to delete posts). I guess at the rate they discard people every thread would have massive holes in it if they did delete them.

JUNE 28, 2017

 

Delta
Sorry, edited text below . Please could remove this short paragraph before publishing it:

On PF somebody can go from being called a \”survivor\” to a \”troll\” in the space of a few hours. As simple as that. EVIDENTLY, they knew that I was no \”intruder\” but the fact that I rebelled against their mantra generated sheer hysteria and indignation in the PF community. One of the admins could hardly control her anger as I opposed her unsubstantiated views and proceeded right away with bullying comments. She came across to me as rude, ignorant and VERY self-regading – she simply could not believe that for me she was just an obscure name and that I could not possibly have remembered that I had asked HER a question on another thread a few days before! Surely, I MUST remember HER!!! Errr… I remember her now after her aggression on PF but before she was like a drop in the sea for me. Anyway, this admin was plain nasty and vindictive to me.

Tonight I was alerted to the fact that the admins did not delete my posts on PF as they claimed to have done when they suspended my account. Apparently my messages are still there. So bullying first, now evidence of lying? Their last message to me clearly states that my posts have been deleted at my request. Well, that is a LIE.

I honestly do not know who is more disordered in all of this: my ex or those with the God complex who control the \”mental concentration camp\” represented by PF.

My experience with PF had been plain distressing and damaging. Stay away people!

JUNE 27, 2017

 

Maria
Sure. I removed the first one (assuming you only meant one paragraph).

JUNE 28, 2017

 

Delta
I regret not bring more caution when I joined the PF site but I was going through a very traumatic time in my life and I was vulnerable and desperate. Most people are in fragile states when they get recruted and indoctrinated by the PF “leaders” and they miss the obvious, jumping in without the due diligence checks. The fact that they lure people in moments of weakness with promises of protection and support , only to deliver the opposite, is very callous and repulsive on their part. Isn’t this what only a psychopath or narcissist would do, devalue and discard someone who is no.longer useful to you??

On PF somebody can go from being called a “survivor” to a “troll” in the space of a few hours. As simple as that. EVIDENTLY they knew that I was no “intruder” but the fact that I rebelled against their mantra generated sheer hysteria and indignation in the PF community. One of the admins could hardly control her anger as I opposed her unsubstantiated views and proceeded right away with bullying comments. She came across to me as rude, ignorant and VERY self-regading – (she simply could not believe that for me she was just an obscure name and that I could not possibly have remembered that I had asked HER a question on another thread a few days before! Surely, I MUST remember HER!!! Errr… I remember her now after her aggression on PF but before she was like a drop in the sea . Anyway, this admin was plain nasty and vindictive to me.

Tonight I was alerted to the fact that the admins did not delete my posts on PF as they claimed to have done when they suspended my account. Apparently my messages are still there. So bullying first, now evidence of lying? Their last message to me clearly states that my posts have been deleted at my request. Well, that is a LIE.

I honestly do not know who is more disordered in all of this: my ex or those with the God complex who control the “mental concentration camp” represented by PF.

My experience with PF had been plain distressing and damaging. Stay away people!

JUNE 27, 2017