To obsess about what I want or believe I must have

Disproportionately

To any other concern

Is the fatal step over the logical/pathological line

Beside his own person and his own interests, nothing is sacred to the psychopath. -Erik Larson

Reinforcing this idea, the life-saving epiphany of Romy Hausmann’s protagonist in Dear Child was that her oppressor’s brutality was fueled by “love,” albeit a malignant love for what he so desperately wanted.

It is easy to distance myself from this label, but as much as I might contend that I am not a psychopath, my own flavor of ego-driven behaviors will also create destructive dysfunction.

Bryon Katie starts the topic of people who do mean things with, “If we believed what they believe, we might do the same things.”