A Brief Tale Of A Whistle-blower's Experience With Evil

'Contemporary conceptualizations of psychopathy draw heavily on Cleckley’s (1941) description of the disorder. In his work “The Mask of Sanity,” Cleckley (1941) described the prototypical psychopath as a slick and deceitful individual whose life was characterized by a lack of long-term planning and whose antisocial behaviors were often reckless and poorly motivated. Of note, according to Cleckley, psychopathic symptoms could be traced to a general poverty in affective responding and a related profound deficiency in the ability or propensity to relate to others.'[1]??

'It has been proposed that the absence of a robust empathic response to other people’s distress explains why these individuals have a propensity to harm others (Blair, 2013; Blair et al., 2005).' [1]?

'Behavioral evidence suggests that psychopaths might be able to correctly distinguish between morally wrong and correct situations but they show abnormal emotional processing while doing it (Cima, Tonnaer, & Hauser, 2010; Raine & Yang, 2006).'[1]?

'While displaying a callous lack of empathy toward others, psychopathic individuals seem to have profound difficulties in showing loyalty to even their closest relatives, and engage in conduct that seems primarily driven by self-benefiting, egocentric motives (Hare, 1993; Meloy, 1988).'[1]?

'This low-fear account has been corroborated by several kinds of evidence over the years, including documented relations between psychopathy and reduced startle potentiation (Patrick, Bradley, & Lang, 1993), attenuated anticipatory responsivity to threat (Gao, Raine, & Schug, 2012), reduced electrodermal fear conditioning (Veit et al., 2013), and reductions in physiological reactivity to fear-inducing stimuli (Marsh et al., 2010).'[1]?

In healthy individuals, the startle reflex is reduced when individuals are primed with positive material and is enhanced when they are primed by the presentation of negative material. Psychopathy (and especially its interpersonal and affective traits) has been related to a decreased enhancement of the startle reflex when viewing negative material (e.g., victim scenes, threatening material) when compared to neutral pictures (Levenston et al., 2000; Pastor, Moltó, Vila, & Lang, 2003).'[1]?

'It is noteworthy that some preliminary evidence appears to suggest that such emotion regulation problems associated to psychopathy may extend to other emotions, such as shame (i.e., based on findings linking psychopathic traits and maladaptive shame-coping styles; Campbell & Elison, 2005; Ribeiro da Silva, Vagos, & Rijo, 2019; Velotti, Elison, & Garofalo, 2014), yet few studies have examined behavioral control of emotions other than anger, and more research is needed.'[1]

Discussion:

Like many pharmaceutical whistleblowers[PW], I have unwillingly met a few psychopaths and other dark personalities in my life--especially sadists. Although not all drinkers are psychopaths, and many young Americans frequent bars,? I have read that most local pubs are frequently visited by people who are psychopaths. Substance abuse is correlated with violence. This is true with personality disorders and mental illness. As a whistleblower, people who have retaliated against me are psychopaths, narcissists, etc. They used it as a badge of honor. Who is the most psychopathic? Who can cause me the most anger and distress emotionally? They have destroyed a wheel on my car, recently knocked on my bedroom sliding glass door, kicked at my door, attempted to pry my door open, and sexually exploited children--seriously. They showed no remorse in using children in dangerous situations, like pushing them in front of me when I would run, and other disgusting acts that meet 18 USC 2251: Sexual Exploitation of Children.

‘(a)Any person who employs, uses, persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any minor to engage in, or who has a minor assist any other person to engage in, or who transports any minor in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, or in any Territory or Possession of the United States, with the intent that such minor engage in, any sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing any visual depiction of such conduct or for the purpose of transmitting a live visual depiction of such conduct, shall be punished as provided under subsection (e), if such person knows or has reason to know that such visual depiction will be transported or transmitted using any means or facility of interstate or foreign commerce or in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce or mailed, if that visual depiction was produced or transmitted using materials that have been mailed, shipped, or transported in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce by any means, including by computer, or if such visual depiction has actually been transported or transmitted using any means or facility of interstate or foreign commerce or in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce or mailed.

(b)Any parent, legal guardian, or person having custody or control of a minor who knowingly permits such minor to engage in, or to assist any other person to engage in, sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing any visual depiction of such conduct or for the purpose of transmitting a live visual depiction of such conduct shall be punished as provided under subsection (e) of this section, if such parent, legal guardian, or person knows or has reason to know that such visual depiction will be transported or transmitted using any means or facility of interstate or foreign commerce or in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce or mailed, if that visual depiction was produced or transmitted using materials that have been mailed, shipped, or transported in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce by any means, including by computer, or if such visual depiction has actually been transported or transmitted using any means or facility of interstate or foreign commerce or in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce or mailed.’

As an example, a white woman sat in the same hot tub as me, looked at a child bending over next to me, made a sexual reaction with her tongue towards the child, and said good luck with ----(coworker I blew the whistle on) because she is competitive. A teen sitting with the woman looked at her and asked what she was doing. A few days later, the coworker placed his/her child in the utility road, circled his head with a finger, and said, “3M”. I was biking and had people drive by and throw bottles at me. I had people put items in the roadway that I biked. The “3M” could have referred to the prior woman’s act, or it could have been my discussion about the inventor of the fiberglass cast who I had lunch with in another State as a student interested in chemical engineering. The woman's and possibly coworker's act could have violated 18 USC 2251. These are two of 100s of examples. Why? They wanted to make me a psychopath type 2, better known as a sociopath, because of trauma--physically and mentally. I am not a sociopath or any other dark personality.

'Further, psychopathic individuals show an intact capacity to identify other individuals’ mental states (like thoughts and intentions), even when these mental states are emotional in nature (i.e., psychopathic individuals have a relatively intact Theory of Mind; Dolan & Fullam, 2004; Nentjes et al., 2015). However, it should be emphasized that psychopaths could make distorted use of such knowledge about others’ mental states. Specifically, it has been argued that individuals with psychopathic traits activate their Theory of Mind skills primarily as a means to control and manipulate others (Bateman, Bolton, & Fonagy, 2013).'[1]

They also used criminal networking, money, and likely other vices and got keys to my living spaces. They would then remove food and replace it, steal books, steal sunglasses and replace them in an obvious location like the center of a clean table, hack my computer, etc. In addition, I had a commercial alarm system, and I was told it would go off at 1 am. At 1 am, it went off. In another instance, I woke up to the sound of a child crying for help, ran to the living room, and found the audio coming from my computer. These are just some examples of what I have endured by dark personalities. This will sound crazy, but it has happened for 25 years and continues to happen. Psychopaths like to make the victim appear crazy. It helps them get away with the crime. I, on the other hand, am in contact with the federal law enforcement agencies. I have found that local police are corrupt, unempathetic, unsympathetic, or unable to investigate.?

If you would like a great book with the psychological consequences of Whistleblower Retaliation, read[3], which was recommended to me by an office in US Congress.

"A victim of stalking, on the other hand, does not have an active relationship with the perpetrator and does not have the option of attempting to behave a certain way to stop the perpetrator’s actions. Furthermore,? he/she is subjected to an uncontrollable environment where escape is neither apparent nor possible; walking away is not an option. Thus, the victim’s? helplessness stems from the lack of ability to do anything about the situation? on his or her own accord."[2]?

"Stalking usually begins with one event that is characterized as unwanted behavior. However, the effects of this event eventually multiply. The stalker repeats the harassing and threatening behavior in order to reinforce the impact on the victim and to give the appearance of power and control. In this, the person being stalked begins to believe that the stalker actually does have control over every element of his or her life. Although some threats exhibited by the stalker may seem benign, it is difficult to distinguish credible threats from dangerous warnings. Unfortunately, sometimes a stalker’s? threats are valid, and in these cases the victim may have to take extreme measures to ensure his or her own physical and psychological safety." [2]?

"In STS, there is a cycle of crisis that occurs whereby the stalking victim is subject to repetitive harassment, threats and/or threatening behavior, and violence perpetrated by the stalker. The cycle of crisis consists of three phases:? the crisis phase, the recovery phase, and the anticipation phase. The victim? is unable to effectively recover due to the recurrent nature of the victimization? and anticipation of subsequent new events." [2]?

References:

[PW] Kesselheim, Aaron S., MD, JD, MPH; Studdert, David M., LL.B., Sc.D., MPH; Mello, Michelle M., JD, PhD, M.Phil. Whistle-Blowers’ Experiences in Fraud Litigation against Pharmaceutical Companies. The New England Journal of Medicine[online]. 2010. vol. 362, pp. 1832-1839. Available from: New England Journal of Medicine: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsr0912039

[1] Marques, Paulo Barbosa; Paulino, Mauro; Alho, Laura. Psychopathy and Criminal Behavior: Current Trends and Challenges (p. 259). Elsevier Science. Kindle Edition.?

[2] Davis, Joseph A.. Stalking Crimes and Victim Protection: Prevention, Intervention, Threat Assessment, and Case Management (p. 326). Taylor & Francis. Kindle Edition.

[3] Jacqueline Garrick, Martina Buck. The Psychosocial Impacts of Whistleblower Retaliation: Shattering Employee Resilience and the Workplace Promise. Springer Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19055-1 ?

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