Operational Sociopaths…

Elizabeth O’Carroll
5 min readFeb 9, 2019

Charming, seductive, manipulative and dangerous…(part one)

Have you ever met someone who has this energy field that sucks you in like a magnet? Before you know it you have taken the bait of an Operational Sociopath and hook line and sinker….you swallowed the bait, emptied your wallet, turned your life upside down and amid the chaos; found yourself scrambling to put your life back together.

I hope for your sake you have only heard of these charismatic whack jobs from stories or from some unfortunate acquaintance.

I speak from first hand experience of encountering two Operational Sociopaths through a previous relationship. As if one encounter wasn’t enough, my ex partner was attracted to both of them and suffered the brunt of these two women.

I have changed the names to protect the my ex partner and those who also survived the wrath of these women.

Let’s call her “Sandy.” I first met Sandy at my spiritual center. She was tall attractive, had a wonderful laugh and an unbelievable story that she made believable somehow. During this time she was dating my ex partner and soaked her for over 20,000 in one month and continues to manipulate her and draw her in to bogus investments till this day! Sandy told everyone she was a special ‘body guard” for the Princess of Saudi Arabia and was paid handsomely for this service. Any day now Sandy would return to protect the princess and make this enormous salary. Meanwhile, she was working her charm to extort money out of ME and other people from our spiritual center with the promise of paying our money back with her new contract overseas. As you may have guessed, the contract never came through with the princess.

When I began dating my ex partner, Sandy refused to give us space to be a couple. Sandy didn’t want to let go of a sheep she could continue to take to the slaughter house and manipulate over and over. I attempted to open the eyes of my partner to Sandy’s ways; after I woke up from the haze of Sandy’s schemes. Sadly, my partner was in deep with financial loans to Sandy and still charmed by her somehow. I was not enough. My partner refused to ‘give up’ her friendship with Sandy. Eventually, Sandy’s tactics towards my partner, lies she told her to get us to break up and other elaborate strategies complete with falsified cell phone records….it worked. I had to escape the madness with a shred of dignity and a the heartbreak of my life.

Recently, Sandy found herself another victim to be in a relationship with and then introduced my single ex partner to a friend who was a duplicate version of herself (Sandy). Let’s call this next woman “Linzie.” Linzie looked similar to Sandy and worked the same charm on my ex partner and extorted more money out of her and brought chaos into her life.

How did this effect me? Well, at first Linzie wanted to be my friend while dating my ex. Then she became jealous of my friendship with my ex and demanded that my ex be rid me. Which she did by giving Linzie the control of sending me the “don’t contact us anymore” email.

Meanwhile, Linzie burned down the kitchen in my ex’s house to the extent of 50K in repairs! Linzie convinced my ex that it was MY spirit that came in to the kitchen and tried to assassinate her! Pretty whacked right? That’s entertaining isn’t it? Then I was later informed that Linzie and Sandy would go through my ex partners house “smudging it” to get rid of my energy and spirit that kept hanging around. Linzie would walk around the house swatting at the air and commanding ME (my spirit) to leave the house!

Wouldn’t it be great to have such a talented spirit to travel out and waste my spiritual time sabotaging Linzie? Long story short, Linzie extracted a lot of money out of my ex and Sandy moved next door to the ex. When the relationship reached its end; Linzie locked herself into the guest bedroom and demanded 10k from my ex to leave. My ex gave her 2k to leave and then Linzie went on to manipulate more money out of my ex’s family members before finally moving on to her next victim!

You might be wondering what are the characteristics of a Operational Sociopath? Mike Adam’s article is very straight forward in identifying these elements; “How to spot a sociopath — 10 red flags that could save you from being swept under the influence of a charismatic nut job.”

  1. “Sociopaths are charming. Sociopaths have high charisma and tend to attract a following just because people want to be around them.”
  2. “Sociopaths are more spontaneous and intense than other people. They tend to do bizarre, sometimes erratic things that most regular people wouldn’t do”
  3. “Sociopaths are incapable of feeling shame, guilt or remorse. Their brains simply lack the circuitry to process such emotions. This allows them to betray people, threaten people or harm people without giving it a second thought.”
  4. “Sociopaths invent outrageous lies about their experiences. They wildly exaggerate things to the point of absurdity, but when they describe it to you in a storytelling format, for some reason it sounds believable at the time.”
  5. “Sociopaths seek to dominate others and “win” at all costs.”
  6. “Sociopaths tend to be highly intelligent, but they use their brainpower to deceive others rather than empower them.”
  7. “Sociopaths are incapable of love and are entirely self-serving.”
  8. “Sociopaths speak poetically. They are master wordsmiths, able to deliver a running “stream of consciousness” monologue that is both intriguing and hypnotic.”
  9. “Sociopaths never apologize. They are never wrong. They never feel guilt. They can never apologize.”
  10. “Sociopaths are delusional and literally believe that what they say becomes truth merely because they say it!”

My son and I recently watched a documentary on Netflix about publicly known Operational Sociopath; “FRYE The Greatest Party that Never Happened.” After we watched this I was drawn back to my interactions with Sandy and Linzie. WOW!! I wasn’t the crazy one or feeling like a dummy for getting vacuumed into this vortex of deceit! This Sociopath extorted MILLIONS of dollars from thousands of people!

Update, I am reestablishing my friendship with my ex partner. We discussed Sandy and Linzie. She is wondering why she has attracted these personas into her personal life. Well, every relationship provides triggers that push our buttons to learn something about ourselves and others.

Explore with me in Part 2 of this series, people who are drawn towards Operational Sociopaths and how to run 100mph in the opposite direction!

More on this article by Mike Adams(https://www.naturalnews.com/036112_sociopaths_cults_influence.html)

Photo Credit: http://sweetcue.online/10-traits-charismatic-people-have-without-knowing/

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Elizabeth O’Carroll

Avid life “experiencer!” Masters in Education, Rehabilitation Counselor, Ministry of Metaphysics, Author & solo world traveler. Learning, loving & evolving! xxx