Socialize / RSS Subscribe by Email Stop Calling them "Narcs", "Sociopaths", "Borderlines" -- They are Psychopaths. By Thomas Sheridan -- thomassheridanarts.blogspot.co.uk - If you experienced this -- then you knew a psychopath: Invented Personas to Manipulate Others Psychopaths are a different version of themselves for every person they interact with. They also have 'group personas' for family, organisational and workplace interaction. Highly Unreliable/Broken Promises Psychopaths will make the most incredibly ambitious plans including you as their right hand man or woman then, on a whim, discard those plans and move on to some other crusade that excludes you. Targets often alter their own life plans to help the psychopath reach their imaginary goals, resulting in appalling emotional, psychological and financial chaos for the victims when the psychopath moves on. Idealisation Followed by Cold Rejection At the height of their idealisation of you, the psychopath will show you obsessive 'love,' care and attention. However, once they feel they have you where they want you -- or the relationship has ended -- if you collapsed in front of them on the street they would simply step over you as if they'd never met you and continue on their way. Outrageous smear campaigns against the discarded targets to falsely portray them as psychologically unstable, self-serving liars or abusers are often undertaken by psychopaths following the ending of a relationship. Becomes Obsessed with a Hobby, Cause, or Individual and then Loses Interest Instantly However, as soon as the relationship is established, the downward trajectory