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About Karli McClane

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Karli McClane
In sharing some of her experiences and observations, Karli's goal is to help others who have had to endure abuse from psychopaths, sociopaths, personality disordered individuals (narcissistic, borderline, histrionic, antisocial), and other emotional vampires that thrive on inflicting harm and causing misery.

All Predators Operate In The Same Manner

  Sex Trafficking I was reading an article about sex trafficking (I removed the old, broken link but was unable to find the original article again), and I couldn't help noticing how the abusers got into the victim's head in Brianna's story. Psychopaths, sociopaths, predators, whatever you want to call them, they all follow basic patterns for victimizing others. It starts by asking seemingly innocuous, friendly questions. What they are really doing is gleaning personal information from you with the intent of using it against you later. In Brianna's case, the predator used personal knowledge of her likes and dislikes so that he could cast a younger predator in the role of her Prince Charming. The one portraying her "dream guy", then made her feel special and forged a superficial bond with her, thus making it easier to manipulate her into doing what he wanted. Predators Know How To Get Into Your Head It's important to notice these patterns, because anyone is