How to Drive Someone Crazy | Forum

Still, the person dealing with Chinese water torture, and/or extortionist, captor, or insidious hacker, laughs at the poor little bitch "losing it" over the inconsistent behavior of other people.  At least they get a level playing field and can confront the person driving them crazy DIRECTLY. 

You can walk up and smack a person giving mixed signals or people deliberately accepting or rejecting you in the fucking face.  Call out their bullshit. No one is powerless to stop it in any of those cited situations.  

Now remove their ability to fight directly and it would drive anyone crazy.

For example, instead of thinking: 

These motherfuckers are trying to manipulate and control me, FUCK THAT, I'M GOING TO CONFRONT THEM DIRECTLY AND CALL THEM ALL OUT ON THEIR BULLSHIT! 

It's instead weak and needy like: 

But they liked me one day and hate me the next, I am just so incapable of getting pissed at their attempted coercion so I instead stress over their mixed signals! Boo-hoo!

So true to human condition it deserved two personae (that talk exactly alike) to answer. 

And also an applicable song for those capable of abstract metaphor

It's enough to get out after seeing the first red flag. Most victims ignore the initial warning signs and wait for the situation to escalate. The abusers study the potential victims. First there comes checking your boundaries.

I once watched that old movie "Gaslight". And really, the heroine was a perfect victim. She seemed to beg for being exploited. Totally submissive and in need of love and affection. She was stuck in her nightmare, waiting and waiting until the knight - gentleman came and rescued her. She couldn't get out by herself though the door wasn't locked. 

Who cares about advisable?

I knew this one person who was a perennially fucked with D&D nerd, with the unfortunate double whammy of being the poorest kid in an affluent environment. 

Kids are fucked up lambs that become fucked up sheep, so naturally the minor differences were highlighted and used to ostracized, exclude, pick on, and shit talk. 

So one day when they were trying to pick on this gender neutral person by talking about them right within her proximty. They were doing that little bitch snicker and look ast her thing. So they decided to walk up to them and smack the books right out of the bullies hand.  

No amount of saying "I wasn't talking about you" or any gaslighty thing removes the catharsis of direct engagement.  And if you make a habit of calling it out in such a way. They make sure you're not around from then on.

Which is to the point.  Certain types choose direct confrontation while other choose to make themselves submissive passive victims to the controlling manipulate psychos in their life. 

Actual torture is having no book to smack out of someone's hand if you think about it. 

Besides, there are situations where punching someone in the face isn't really the best solution, for example one's workplace. However, I can agree that the direct confrontation is the best idea. I just think you should do it while staying perfectly calm if only to show the douchebags that they didn't manage to ruffle your feathers.