Junie Moon - A Sociopath Beside Me

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I began to edit A Sociopath Beside Me as a favor for a friend. I ended the task with a feeling of sadness that the job was done, and that I wouldnt be able to learn more about Marvin or Joseph or any of the lost souls I had learned of in the book. What began simply as a favor crawled inside me and took me over for a while. While it was there inside me, it caused me pain. I began to fear the sociopath I was writing of, and I realized the author had done what good authors do: she had described a personal feeling and translated that feeling from personal to communal. In short, she made me feel it too. She will do that for any reader who picks this up and reads it through. You will experience fear, and wonder, and anger, and you will be afraid. Thats what the author intends. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

I first met Junie several years after her experiences with a sociopath. After we became friends, she told me her story. She was visibly upset while telling me the story. I suggested it might help her heal if she wrote it all down. She was reluctant, so I told her, just do it. Several years later, she presented me with a hand written book that she had written. She told me it was her desire to publish this book so others may read it and become aware of the danger signs of a sociopath. The book read like a movie or TV show, but I knew Junie and knew the story to be true. I believe she has accomplished her mission and the book A Sociopath Beside Me is now a published eBook. After I read the book, I was able to look back in my past and realize that sociopaths that had crossed my path had victimized me many times. I am now well armed with the tools to avoid any future encounters with a Sociopath. Good job Junie, thanks for a job well done.

A special thank you to the following people who without their creative abilities, determination and confidence in this project this book would not exist.

To Gary

My advisor, mentor and friend, who unknowingly encouraged the creation of this book by inspiring me with just two small but very profound words, do it! Those words were a turning point for me. Along the way he became a believer in this force for good and became my computer expert, publisher, marketing agent and all around rock. Without you, this work would still be in handwritten form, collecting dust somewhere. Thank you, Gary.

To Joe

Who volunteered his editing and authoring skills that took this diamond in the rough and polished it into a treasure. Without even being aware, his wise words of without details it isn't a story, helped push me out of the writers nest and transformed me into an author. Thank you Joe, I am forever grateful.

Junie Moon

You have met a predator. He has crossed your path and you didnt even know. Why did he pass you by? Why did he look at someone else? Most likely he sought someone who could better satisfy his cravings. You were lucky.

This predator, this hunter on the prowl, is the human equivalent of a Great White Shark. He is a sociopath, as strictly defined in psychiatric literature. He is a menace without conscience, and like the shark in the ocean, he will eat you alive before you sense the danger. You need only cross his path. I had the great misfortune to know intimately a sociopath for eighteen years. It took too many of those years to recognize the problem. For the rest of those years, my professional training in observation and analysis were put to the ultimate test.

My hope for this book is to give you the tools to recognize the sociopath and his behavior. Only by this recognition can you see the sociopath for what he really is, and by seeing what he really is, protect yourself and others from the pain of his intrusion.

Expect the unexpected, think the unthinkable but recognize what is happening. It took a terrible, eighteen year journey with a sociopath by my side to first understand then withstand the sociopaths power. My desire is to share this understanding with you, to have you use this book as a guide to recognizing these dark souls. I hope it contains the tools and armor that will protect you and help you avoid being victimized by a sociopath beside you.

This is a true story; it contains real events, events that caused great emotional pain to real people.

Names have been changed and the predators relationships with his victims, including this author, are intentionally vague to protect the confidentiality of those involved.

On the victims behalf, some of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated toward efforts in locating and bringing to justice their perpetrator.

The Author

To the many victims of the sociopath who walked beside me:

I wish for each one of you to know that what he chose to do to you was not your fault. A sociopath is only interested in meeting his own agenda through nearly any means possible, and we, as society, are merely his pawns. He chose you simply because he knew you. For each of you I wish the courage and the wisdom to release any emotional hold he may still have upon you. I wish you comfort and peace.

To the truth:

Which is still buried beneath his many dark untruths, I want to bring light. Your well deserved and rightful voice can bring sunlight, the best disinfectant, and can validate the truth. It can be a healing catalyst for a sociopaths many victims.

And to you the reader:

I want you to be made aware that individuals, as described within these pages, do exist in large numbers. I do not want to alarm you, but to alert you. My hope is that some good can be discovered and salvaged from the trail of destruction the sociopath beside me created and left his victims to contend with. I pray my personal journey can provide you with information and tools that you both deserve and need in becoming more aware of your surroundings and the people who surround you. I hope this will be a decent persons guide to the indecency of the sociopath beside you.

I am neither a writer nor a psychiatrist, but have had the personal misfortune of intimately knowing one of societys hidden predators a sociopath and am relating the events of living that terrible misfortune to you in my own laymen terms.

I spent the good part the bad part, if you will of eighteen years with a sociopath beside me. On many occasions, I found myself wondering, Whatever was he thinking? I experienced numerous red flag moments. I didnt see them as other than just plain odd. I didnt put the pieces together at the time strange things happened. I shrugged the vague unrest away, unwilling to think the unthinkable, unable to visualize the unexpected. I couldnt put the pieces of the puzzle together until long after the incidents occurred.