Buddy
The Living Force
Hi Sonrisa. I'm sorry to hear about this. If it were a little bit different, this would be a perfect opportunity for you to study how this 'path' acts and reacts to you so that you might gain a bit of immunity from this kind of behavior towards you. As it stands, it appears you are torn up over it and need some kind of immediate relief.
Stress of this nature can have a similar effect on brain chemistry as addictive drugs and you are going through something probably similar to this:
I wonder if it might be possible to take this information to your lawyer or the PTB at your work and let them know that there could be medical expenses involved in your treatment/recovery from this terrorist if it is allowed to continue. (it's just a thought, fwiw).
In the meantime, it looks like you could benefit from finding a way to call on some strength from deep down inside you to get through this.
Here is an excerpt that might provide some inspiration. In this piece, Max Stirner is talking about the similarities between Identification and Idolatry and going on the offense against his idols and the idols of others to reclaim his power over himself:
In addition, if you need a good feeling of bonding with supporting friends, and maybe a good cry to metabolize some of this pain, you could watch this video:
Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush -Don't Give Up
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiCRZLr9oRw
...and there is DLPA which Laura suggested to another forum member:
...and my post on what is DLPA following that one.
These are just my thoughts, so if something I've said needs correction or modification, I'm sure someone will step in with some more helpful advice.
Good luck to you, Sonrisa and keep us posted! :)
Stress of this nature can have a similar effect on brain chemistry as addictive drugs and you are going through something probably similar to this:
How a psychopath spots a victim
In the video I, Psychopath, Sam Vaknin describes "the great secret of bullys" which explains what may be going on in your brain/body regarding this issue.
Sam V, slips coldly and easily into the third person as he describes what would have been happening with Ian while he (Sam) bullied Ian in the hotel lobby earlier (it's around 38:00):
"You're body is flooded instantly with adrenaline and it's derivatives, like norenephrine. Now when these hormones pervade the bloodstream, you're brain reacts. It shuts down certain centers and activates others. This is called the stress reaction. Or stress syndrome action. Then when the abuse recedes, the adrenaline levels begin to drop. As they drop, the entire system goes into mayhem. So what bullies usually do...they start and stop, start and stop. That achieves the maximal stress syndrome. And this is the great secret of bullying: never overdo it...small doses...the victim will do the rest."
Location of video: _http://blip.tv/file/2268740
I wonder if it might be possible to take this information to your lawyer or the PTB at your work and let them know that there could be medical expenses involved in your treatment/recovery from this terrorist if it is allowed to continue. (it's just a thought, fwiw).
In the meantime, it looks like you could benefit from finding a way to call on some strength from deep down inside you to get through this.
Here is an excerpt that might provide some inspiration. In this piece, Max Stirner is talking about the similarities between Identification and Idolatry and going on the offense against his idols and the idols of others to reclaim his power over himself:
The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner
Part 1, Chapter 2, section 2.-- The Possessed
Man, your head is haunted;...You imagine great things, and depict to yourself a whole world of gods that has an existence for you, You have a fixed idea!
Do not think that I am jesting or speaking figuratively when I regard those persons who cling to the Higher, and (because the vast majority belongs under this head) almost the whole world of men, as veritable fools, fools in a madhouse.
What is it, then, that is called a "fixed idea"? An idea that has subjected the man to itself. When you recognize, with regard to such a fixed idea, that it is a folly, you shut its slave up in an asylum. And is the truth of the faith, say, which we are not to doubt; the majesty of (e.g.) the people, which we are not to strike at (he who does is guilty of -- lese-majesty); virtue, against which the censor is not to let a word pass, that morality may be kept pure; -- are these not "fixed ideas"?
Is not all the stupid chatter of (e.g.) most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality, Christianity, etc., and only seem to go about free because the madhouse in which they walk takes in so broad a space? Touch the fixed idea of such a fool, and you will at once have to guard your back against the lunatic's stealthy malice. For these great lunatics are like the little so-called lunatics in this point too -- that they assail by stealth him who touches their fixed idea.
They first steal his weapon, steal free speech from him, and then they fall upon him with their nails. Every day now lays bare the cowardice and vindictiveness of these maniacs, and the stupid populace hurrahs for their crazy measures. One must read the journals of this period, and must hear the Philistines talk, to get the horrible conviction that one is shut up in a house with fools.
"Thou shalt not call thy brother a fool; if thou dost -- etc." But I do not fear the curse, and I say, my brothers are arch-fools. Whether a poor fool of the insane asylum is possessed by the fancy that he is God the Father, Emperor of Japan, the Holy Spirit, etc., or whether a citizen in comfortable circumstances conceives that it is his mission to be a good Christian, a faithful Protestant, a loyal citizen, a virtuous man -- both these are one and the same "fixed idea."
Just as the schoolmen philosophized only inside the belief of the church; as Pope Benedict XIV wrote fat books inside the papist superstition, without ever throwing a doubt upon this belief; as authors fill whole folios on the State without calling in question the fixed idea of the State itself; as our newspapers are crammed with politics because they are conjured into the fancy that man was created to be a zoon politicon -- so also subjects vegetate in subjection, virtuous people in virtue, liberals in humanity, without ever putting to these fixed ideas of theirs the searching knife of criticism. Undislodgeable, like a madman's delusion, those thoughts stand on a firm footing, and he who doubts them -- lays hands on the sacred! Yes, the "fixed idea," that is the truly sacred!
The Ego and Its Own (German: Der Einzige und sein Eigentum; also translated as The Individual and His Property; a literal translation would read The Sole One and His Property) is a philosophical work by German philosopher Max Stirner (1806-1856), first published in 1844.
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ego_and_Its_Own
_http://www.lsr-projekt.de/poly/enee.html
_http://www.nonserviam.com/egoistarchive/stirner/TheEgo.pdf
In addition, if you need a good feeling of bonding with supporting friends, and maybe a good cry to metabolize some of this pain, you could watch this video:
Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush -Don't Give Up
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiCRZLr9oRw
...and there is DLPA which Laura suggested to another forum member:
I would take a little DLPA along with the breathing/meditation program, to try to get some relief from the chemical withdrawal symptoms which is what you are experiencing physical symptoms of.
...and my post on what is DLPA following that one.
These are just my thoughts, so if something I've said needs correction or modification, I'm sure someone will step in with some more helpful advice.
Good luck to you, Sonrisa and keep us posted! :)