Gaslighting is a form of manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group, hoping to make them question their own memory, perception, and sanity. Using persistent denial, misdirection, contradiction, and lying, it attempts to destabilize the target and delegitimize the target’s belief

Psychopaths carefully select their partners and copy their personalities to chain them with trust and intimacy immediately. But, since this is only hypocrisy, a psychopath can not always play a role of a hero.

Therefore, their partner inevitably begins to notice the cracks in the mask – eerie, inexplicable moments, when the sociopath becomes utterly different from “ordinary” himself.

But anybody, who dares to point out these inconsistencies, instantly becomes the enemy number one. Instead of recognizing his imperfection and deception, the psychopath will try to drive the victim crazy. He will play with the psyche of the victim, build triangles, engage in gas mileage and declare a boycott – all to push the victim onto the path of self-destruction.

Most people at this stage do not even know that they are dealing with a pathological personality. The most they can do is notice that “something has changed in a person.” But for a psychopath this is the most significant insult – after all, he portrays a right person, and someone dared to doubt his game.

Therefore, sociopath quickly blackens his partner calming that the partner is crazy before moving on to the next relations, who will soon take on a false network that the psychopath is woven.

A psychopath deliberately distorts reality – often with the help of petty lies and minor offenses – to provoke the reaction of people, and then argue that nothing of the sort has ever happened.

You, like most of the friends of a psychopath, are probably a person with an easy temper and hardly overreact. Meanwhile, a psychopath completely rewrites your story and even deny that something like this ever happened. As a result, you realize that sociopath is just using you to make himself feel better.