Stalkers 101

This Hub is for all of those people who have ever had a person following them, obsessing over them, trying to reach out for them, trying to be more than friends towards them and possibly even trying to hurt them. This is a very serious Hub and my point in making it is to make those aware of someone that could be trying to hurt them and to help them be safe in everyday activities. Having a stalker is a very serious point and I would like you to think about my points from research I found. If you are reading this to try and poke fun at people because you have stalked someone yourself, please do not make rude comments and STALK someone stating their opinion. My Hubs are obviously open to all viewers and many of my readers have different opinions on the subject as I do and I'm aware of that. If you think differently than I do or if you have anything to add to any of my points, please leave a comment letting me know. Just please do not make fun of anyone for commenting their opinion on my pages.

ANYWAY... TO THE STORY.......

Facts about stalkers....

Stalkers will not take no for an answer and is persistent.

Stalkers display an obsessive personality.

They may suffer from erotomania, paranoia, schizophrenia, and delusional thinking.

There are drugs to treat certain specific mental disorders, but stalkers, when given the choice, rarely take their medication or treatment.

Stalkers are above average in intelligence and are usually smarter than the usual person with mental problems.

They will go to great lengths to obtain information about their victims or to find victims who have secretly moved.

They have been known to hack into computers, tap telephone lines, take jobs at public utilities that allow them access to the victims or information about the victims, and even to travel thousands of miles and spend thousands of dollars to gain information about or find their victims.

Stalkers many times use their intelligence to throw others off their trail.

Most stalkers don't have any relationship outside the one they have imagined exists between them and their victim.

Because they are usually loners, stalkers become desperate to obtain this relationship.

Stalkers don't display the discomfort or anxiety that people should naturally feel in certain situations.

Normal individuals would be extremely embarrassed to be caught following other people, going through their trash, looking for information about them, leaving obscene notes, and other inappropriate behavior displayed by stalkers. Stalkers, however, don't see this as inappropriate behavior, but only as a means to gain the person's love.

Stalkers often suffer from low self-esteem, and feel they must have a relationship with the victim in order to have any self worth.

Preoccupations with other people almost always involve someone with weak social skills and low self-esteem.

Few stalkers can see how their actions are hurting others.

They display other sociopathic thinking in that they cannot learn from experience, and they don't believe society's rules apply to them.

Most stalkers don't think they're really threatening, intimidating, or even stalking someone else. They think they're simply trying to show the victims that they're the right one for them. To the victims of stalking it is like a prolonged rape.

Stalkers, like rapists, want absolute control over their victims. They don't regard what they're doing as a crime, or even wrong. To them it is true love, with the exception that the victim doesn't recognize it yet.

With enough persistence, stalkers believe they will eventually convince the victims of their love.

Stalkers many times have a mean streak and will become violent, and often deadly, when frustrated.

Most common traits of Stalkers:

Won't take no for an answer

Has an obsessive personality

Above average intelligence

No or few personal relationships

Lack of embarrassment or discomfort at actions

Low self esteem

Sociopathic thinking

Has a mean streak