If you haven't been able to avoid all contact, that is. Because if you managed just one hit at getting in their head, every effort is less successful.
First goal is doubt, a many wins over them as you can get.
Second is either paranoia or calm self-assurance, whichever they're further from. The though well-applied doubt reducing the stickiness of their original positions should make this easier, it's best to approach obliquely or non seriously in a way you haven't used yet. Pump up, deflate, pump up, counteract even more. Soothe the mental wound, then add acid, mix and match a little. Or maybe sing-song or sweetly whisper your poison to what they're sure they need or do hold dear. The notion is distrusting their reality. Technically, that's also true for self-assurance to the other type, but that you're trying to help them replace their antisocial and self-destructive ideas with nice, pleasant things instead.
Third, fear/terror or calm/peace. Early on, you can try exploiting a trope or common phobia. better you can embody one that gets them. DO NOT apply a fear at every opportunity (except if you think this is thr last push or if less exposure isn't working). That would make things predictable and limit your ability to increase the level of distress. I was told on average, not fewer than 20% of opportunities but not more than 2 in 3. Roughly. But the key is inconsistency. In most cases, once sensitized, rarity punctuated with bursts of actively applied fear increases distress. Never knowing when the shoe will drop or horror to unbearability will come. It is much easier to win against a once confident, now broke attacker. On the other hand calmness is probably best applied at first uncommonly and slowly becoming more and more often unless the subject rebels.
My course was created specifically for me by a police officer with a keep interest in adaptive self-defense. For the very good reason that strangers kept doing things to me, fairly undeterred by those around me, from a full Baptist dinner hall to a parent in front of me and a policeman on the other free side. IIRC, I wasn't to be officially taught measures of physical counter-response till I was 5. But there was exception for where to apply things I didn't need to be taught. In particular, biting. So when fullsome physically active measures came around, how make even an innocuous non-breaking bites terrifying was first on the list. While human bites are medically hazardous, they aren't generally immediately scary. And cutting bites are hazardous for the biter, too, exposing you to diseases of the bitten as well as potentially dental trauma. Bites that just bleed and bleed, that would frighten most anyone. Biting your cheek, tongue tip, inner lip to bleeding gives you lots of spit/blood mix that all can read as blood if phobic, ignorant, or if fear and paranoia have been properly applied. I was also taught that while only part of self-defense to thoughtful attackers, leaving your own blood ensures possibly of DNA evidence. Not ideal, certainly, but better than nothing.
These ideas and more I used to great effect winning against the worst impulses of a horrendous offender at about 6. Used the horror trope of the overly mature child. I said I liked my teeth, my fingernails and his blood. I threatened exsanguination before biting him and then biting lips so he thought he bleeds and bleeds.he was terified
Submitted February 15, 2026 at 07:12PM by IndomitableAnyBeth https://ift.tt/JiVaXsf
