58 Quotes by Jackson MacKenzie

You’re afraid that you’re ruining relationships by acknowledging reality. As if it’s your responsibility to hide or enable another person’s unacceptable behavior in order to keep your relationship afloat.

There are more sociopaths among us than people who suffer from the much-publicized disorder of anorexia, four times as many sociopaths as schizophrenics, and one hundred times as many sociopaths as people diagnosed with a known scourge such as colon cancer. – Dr. Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door.

You cannot heal a False Conclusion, because it is False. You must ‘see’ the False Conclusion as a False Conclusion and discard it. You can never overcome or heal your False Core, you can only be free of it by realizing it is not you.

You can break this cycle by meeting your own internal pain with self-love and a heartfelt understanding that this experience truly was not your fault. Whatever happened to them to cause this disorder was likely not their fault either, but now you see that your love cannot possibly break that psychological barrier. Your first priority is to turn your focus inward, allowing yourself to feel the emotions you were told were wrong.

With you, the psychopath acts covert, ambiguous, condescending, and always trying to keep you doubting the relationship.

It would be nearly impossible not to be resentful about this, so please don’t feel any shame or guilt for having a completely normal human reaction to psychological abuse.

Carl Jung wrote: “The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

Something really important to understand about the protective self is that you didn’t ask for it. Repeat that in your mind a few times: You didn’t ask for the protective self to take over. This was a physiological response from your own body, tensing or blocking or numbing to protect you. You didn’t go through a trauma and say, “Okay, body, numb me out now!” Decisions were made without your approval or awareness.

Delayed arrogance is common in sociopaths. When you first meet, they’ll seem unusually innocent, humble, childlike, and thoughtful. But as time goes by, they inevitably transform into a monster: manipulative, arrogant, and neglectful.