What do you suppose happens when a person who is functional psychologically is placed in a situation where he/she is unable to or not allowed to protect himself or herself from other people's dysfunction?

What is the moral of this true story? A woman encountered gaslighting type harassment, including experiencing harassment at the business that she co-owned. Due to the slyness of the harassment, she was left with few options, particularly decent and ethical options,

and she chose to walk away from her business/career rather than countenance such behavior in any way. Over the course of the next seven and a half years, she lost out on over $400,000 in potential earnings. Every single day for 7.5 years (and counting), she has lost out on $148

due to having been harassed out of her business. Oh, did I mention that she also lost her house (that was paid off) and all of the savings that she had accummulated over the course of a 23-year career? And the moral is?

To those whose psychological dysfunction (such as sociopathy) lead them to prey on, harass, victimize, & commit crimes against other people:

Seek repair of your particular psychological dysfunction and STOP CAUSING MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN OTHERS.

HUMAN RIGHTS > EVERYTHING ELSE

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Abbreviated version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: hrlibrary.umn.edu/edumat/hreduse…

The gaslighting of an individual may include obstructing the person from obtaining the help required to stop the crime and obtain justice.

Therefore, it is important that, if you witness gaslighting or have information about a case of gaslighting, you report your

observations/information to the legal authorities.

Aggressive behavior, including passive-aggressiveness, is based on fear.

When you teach someone to be tough emotionally & aggressive (rather than assertive), when you teach a person to put aside empathy & compassion under certain circumstances, you are actually training the person to lose whatever empathy & compassion that he or she might possess.

Frustrations and stressors that are presented deliberately and unjustly to an individual do not cause the individual to become "stronger" psychologically. Such hardships cause the person to become callous and aloof emotionally, to lose empathy and compassion for others, . . .

and to experience diminished conscience development. In other words, such hardships cause the person to become, psychologically, more like a sociopath.

Be an adult (mature psychologically) and use common sense and kindness when interacting with other people. Take responsibility for your actions rather than assuming everything is okay or will be okay just because you want it to be that way.

When you choose to be aggressive with someone, or to "tease" the person a bit meanly, to "mess with" or to otherwise do something unkind to a person, you might not be the only one doing such a thing to the person. . . .

You might be the 1000th bully the person encounters and the one that causes (or contributes to) the destruction of the person's quality of life or even the person's suicide.