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<blockquote data-quote="Echolette" data-source="post: 627461" data-attributes="member: 17269"><p>JKF,</p><p></p><p>I haven't been able to respond to this because it is so awful. My heart just aches for you and for your dad. There is no comfort to be had here. I hope you can find a way to not be consumed with anger/rage/despair. That is your charge now, that and protecting yourself from the actions of difficult child...because he IS evil. </p><p></p><p>I don't remember if you have read The Sociopath Next Door. It might be helpful to you and to your dad, when he is ready. It is a book written by a therapist whose practice focused on people whose lives had intersected with a sociopath...the random, evil, remorseless, guiltless, unempathetic person whose only joy comes from winning. The book posits that they make up about 4% of the population..and that the people who get damaged in their slipstream need a lot a lot of help to recover from the meaningless and awful harm inflicted on them. It tries to get you past the "why why why" because...there is no why. I hope it helps you. I hope it helps your dad. I feel like you might even read Eli Wiesel's book Night...both of them are about surviving pointless evil.</p><p></p><p>We are all holding you and your family in our hearts, or, as they say at my jewish sons' Quaker school (children of a buddhist-raised-unitarian mom and a jewish dad) we will hold you in the light. May it sooth you and heal you.</p><p></p><p>Echo</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Echolette, post: 627461, member: 17269"] JKF, I haven't been able to respond to this because it is so awful. My heart just aches for you and for your dad. There is no comfort to be had here. I hope you can find a way to not be consumed with anger/rage/despair. That is your charge now, that and protecting yourself from the actions of difficult child...because he IS evil. I don't remember if you have read The Sociopath Next Door. It might be helpful to you and to your dad, when he is ready. It is a book written by a therapist whose practice focused on people whose lives had intersected with a sociopath...the random, evil, remorseless, guiltless, unempathetic person whose only joy comes from winning. The book posits that they make up about 4% of the population..and that the people who get damaged in their slipstream need a lot a lot of help to recover from the meaningless and awful harm inflicted on them. It tries to get you past the "why why why" because...there is no why. I hope it helps you. I hope it helps your dad. I feel like you might even read Eli Wiesel's book Night...both of them are about surviving pointless evil. We are all holding you and your family in our hearts, or, as they say at my jewish sons' Quaker school (children of a buddhist-raised-unitarian mom and a jewish dad) we will hold you in the light. May it sooth you and heal you. Echo [/QUOTE]
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