Making up a rule on the spot, intended as a direct order against one specific person at this specific time, but concealed as a general rule, under a pretext that the rule applies to everyone all the time and always has. Like John McCain did , when he tried to silence a soldier who spoke out about the lack of equipment in the Iraq War.
Someone will always try to think up a creative excuse for abridging the First Amendment. Mind games are all about using the logic du jour instead of the logic de jure. Mind games are made up on the spot: They are ad hoc , ad lib , and adolescent. They try to weasel out of promises. They pretend that something they used to enjoy about you is now somehow offensive or painful.
They try to make you think that normal things like the desire for a relationship, romantic gestures, asking for sex, displays of affection, etc. Their positions on ethics change. It becomes impossible to tell whether they were faking their personalities earlier, to draw you into the relationship, or faking later, as a way of breaking out of the relationship. You have to wonder: Was it all pretend?
Was your soulmate pretending to share your ethics and values? Was everything before the breakup a lie? Or after? Is anything believable now? Can they ever be trusted again? Dump them, and warn your friends. Jekyll-and-Hyde Disorder. Housemates become totally different people when they no longer like you.
Excerpts from my book in progress Principles of Psychology. Expect that all base motivations will be hidden. How to Be a Good Skeptic and a Critical Thinker: One of the elements of critical thinking, one of the elements of learning to think scientifically, is learning not to be a fool, learning that much of what you are told is said to fool you into believing things that put you at a disadvantage.
Such persons demonstrate that to them all debate is mortal combat and that shattering the self-esteem and confidence of the opponent is not off the table.
There is nothing wrong with my perceptions, thank you very much. It is the policy of all large corporations to respond with psychological tactics instead of solutions. It is also a matter of policy that your particular complaint has never happened to any other customer before and that no one else has ever complained. About anything. No matter how mild and factual your complaint is, it is company policy that you should have found a nicer way to say it. Expect to hear such position statements and psychological tactics whenever you complain about poor service.
Ignore such dismissive remarks. Show them that these tactics will backfire and will cause you to complain at a whole new level: louder, higher up, and more publicly. Brown Breakup Games The following mind games occur specifically in romantic breakups, and sometimes in the dissolution of working relationships.
The person who initiates the breakup is likely to behave in strange ways: General Tactics. Like the age difference or the height difference: Anyone who breaks up with you and gives a reason which was true when you met is playing head games with you. Any legitimate reason to break up was a legitimate reason not to get together in the first place.
They pretend to be interested in something different. They suddenly adopt the belief that you are stupid and will fall for anything. They rewrite history. We never had a relationship. That mind game comes directly from the hormones, trying to trick them into staying in any relationship at any cost. Notice that they never explain how they can plausibly have such an x-ray view of the inside of your mind, or how they can be so sure human memory is faulty and yet be so sure of their own memories.
Pretending to Be Offended. These tactics are attempts to damage your interpersonal skills and your understanding of the dating pool. When people break up with you, a part of their brain very likely the amygdala, whose functions are known to include an associative memory which can mark places and persons as disliked, unlucky, or evil labels you a persona non grata.
Psychologists speak of a phenomenon called the Halo Effect, under which a liked person is assumed to be perfect in every way, and a disliked person is assumed to have no good qualities; and I have noticed a related-or-same effect, which I call the You Can Do No Right syndrome YCDNR.
The humanity! This is the ultimate proof that people will complain about your good points. Your partner begins recoiling from your touch, and may even describe affectionate contact as painful. You ask your partner to lunch. Your partner pretends that you are the one who is more interested in a relationship.
False accusations of wrongdoing are verbal abuse. Dump them. Dump them hard. Mind Games are designed to mess up your dating skills, designed to make you less of a competitor in the Dating Pool. What change? The rules have always been this way. Let his strange beliefs put him out of the dating pool, and be glad to see him go. Brown Charlie and the Cup of Coffee. True story, names changed. Charlie and Denise had a sexual relationship lasting a few months. Charlie decided to break up with Denise after only a few weeks, but perhaps because of inexperience, Charlie was unable to state this honestly.
Denise later learned that Charlie was sleeping with two other women, both of whom thought their relationships with Charlie were monogamous. One particular event stands out: the incident with the cup of coffee. Denise asked Charlie if they could get together for dinner. So Charlie was not trying to claim that coffee is easier to find, or less hassle.
Charlie was claiming that dinner is offensive. I just had something happened two weeks ago. I made a friend and everything was great and then he started actually test me and it's funny that's one of the things you said and he tested me and it was the result if I went along with it I would have been in legal trouble which would have possibly gotten me in prison and a big fine and then he ended up telling me yesterday that I don't know how to be real, I don't know how to be real to myself mainly because I've never been married and this coming from a guy who's had two failed marriages and three years in prison and so no I know how to be real, he doesn't know how to be real, I just pray for him because he really needs it!
What if they don't reverse course and back down? In my case, my brother evades apologies every time no matter how many times I've called him out on his malefic game playing shenanigans. He gets really jealous and power hungry — it's ridiculous. An even better solution would be to leave the said toxic mind gaming individual IMO.
Very true, all of what the author says. I have experienced mind games with my last long-term partner and with friends, some of whom are educated and mature, so intelligence and chronological maturity make no difference. It was a very helpful article. I live with my grandma taking care of her. She had a stroke. Her son, my uncle… has been living with her his whole life.
He screams and yells at her shes87 and everything I do around here he still finds something to bitch about. The other day I jumped in his face telling him to show me some respect and quit messing with me. I now have some strategies to deal with an immensely game-playing colleague who I need to work with for a long time and who I thought I was going to snap and go crazy at until I found this article!
People who will not own up to their mistakes and blames everything on everyone else will only make you unhappy and cause a lot of drama in your life! Be nice if you have to be around them other than that keep your distance and do not think for one minute they will change if they do watch from afar before you jump back in the relationship.
You can only control yourself do not let anyone define you by silent treatment of any sort. Have a great day! I have a team lead that talks about almost everyone, unless, her favorites, and says things to hurt someone when she knows this person has depression.
She just loves the control she has over people. This is what I think anyway. She also knows that someone did something illegal and never reported it, this is a medical facility. Power trip is out of control, especially kicking someone when they are down. Thank you for posting this insightful article. It really hurts when family members or close friends are oblivious to what they are doing.
But, the lord says they know not what they are doing so forgive them, love and respect and move on. This article is helpful in some ways… My devil of a wife will start an argument but I will not entertain the argument she will then play mind games to try and make me feel guilty because I did not retaliate towards her anger.
She has a habit of doing this randomly every couple of months for no reason. I sit opposite a co-worker, who works 8 to 6, I work 9 to 7 so I am the last of the two of us to leave the office, when I get in at 9, my desk can be pulled away from the wall, the chair lift down as far as possible, the wire or the mouse and keyboard tangled together. So from a work perspective what should I do?
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