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This blog is dedicated to illustrating the depths of depravity to debt collectors and their cronies who infest various message boards spewing their spam, insults and filth can and do sink. They will stop at nothing to berate others while trying to elevate their own perceived worth.

Sunday, May 01, 2005

Understanding the debt collector's mentality

Coping with debt collection psychos

As many as one in 100 adults in the average workplace is a psychopath, according to the forthcoming "Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work" by Robert D. Hare, Ph.D., professor emeritus in psychology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and Paul Babiak, Ph.D., a New York-based industrial-organizational psychologist. Not surprisingly, psychopaths comprise as much as a quarter of the prison population. They obviously comprise most of the debt collection agency work force. Their innate lust for thrills and lack of conscience can exact great damage on unsuspecting consumers.

If you are deeply in debt you are going to have to find a way to work with (or around) that person harassing you in order to hang onto your own sanity. It helps to cope when you know a little about what makes a debt collector tick.

Practical demon-keeping
Most debt collectors are psychopaths and know the difference between right and wrong, but they think it's amusing that you and I differentiate it. They don't see a separation between what's mine and what's yours; what I own is theirs. They don't see my ownership of property or even my life as something valuable that they need to respect.

According to psychiatrists, psychopaths share this laundry list of abnormalities:

* lack of remorse or empathy
* shallow emotions
* manipulativeness
* lying
* egocentricity
* glibness
* low frustration tolerance
* episodic relationships
* parasitic lifestyle
* persistent violation of social norms

Pedophiles and serial killers only represent the extreme end of the spectrum. Many psychos actually excel in the business environment, where charm and self-confidence easily mask their duplicitous nature.

Some debt collectors are high in personality aspects, meaning they had characteristic psychopathic features, but they weren't overly violent or antisocial. Which kind of makes sense because they have been successful in business. When they present antisocial behavior, it was dressing down someone in public or backstabbing behavior. Dr. Bob Hare calls them 'subcriminal psychopaths.'"

David L. Weiner, chairman and CEO of Marketing Support Inc., a Chicago-based brand agency, has even known a CEO or two who fit the characteristics he examines in his book, "Power Freaks."

He recalls one top exec who wore a bulletproof vest, kept a gun handy and disinherited his son with a one-paragraph letter because he was offended by something his erstwhile heir said. "You thought, talking to him, that you were in the asylum," Weiner recalls.

Weiner says a corporate culture that turns a blind eye to aggressive one-upmanship is a perfect breeding ground for psychopathic bullies. What better description fits debt collectors such as our freaky "Cartman" aka "Uncle Normie"

There are two ways to become a bully; either you're a psychopath or you mimic psychopathic traits. You have no feelings of shame or guilt; you're basically uninhibited. And you're a bit of sadist, so you're aggressive. You sort of get a high out of bullying people. That description obviously fits "Cartman" like a glove.

There's an important clinical difference between the psychopath and the garden-variety bully.

Studies indicate that bullies are actually inept people who are not talented, maybe have a rage against themselves that they express outward toward people they see as being better than they are. It's from a point of weakness that they express their violence toward others. They need the audience, yet once again perfectly describing our obviously psychopathic cartman and indeed most debt collectors.

The psychopath operates from a point of strength or self perceived strength. He or she is playing the game themselves and they don't need an audience. If you don't play, they will move on toward the next one. There is no investment in you as a piece on the chessboard, where with a bully, there is some sort of relationship there. In the instant case, the relationship is that I shed light on the escapades of the debt collection industry and the psychos who infest it. Normie hates that and does all that he can to discredit even if it means lies and extreme twisting of the truth.

A psychopath can easily convince you they're competent because they are very good liars.

Can a psychopath change his or her ways?

Yes, through some psychotherapy and anger management they can come to the point where they realize that the hurt they do to other people is not a nice thing. "But group therapy tends to make psychopaths better psychopaths because it gives them more behaviors to use to camouflage themselves."

Do psychos actually make it to the top? I would have to say yes because they can usually outwit, outplay and outlast everybody. Can the current psychopathic liar outlast and outwit anyone? No, of course not. Not even with the power of the "world's #1 ranked" blog to hypothetically lend some seeming modicum of sophistry to his rants.

So when you call him and his brethern crazy you are probably right on the money. In the instant case, cartman is proving it beyond a shadow of a doubt.