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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote 2016-08-03 11:22 pm (UTC)

Re: STIM

You might also study passive resistance and verbal self-defense. A short-term imprisonment can often just be waited out by refusing to respond to anyone or anything.

Remember, doctors are only human. If you drop dynamite down their reality tunnel, they'll flinch. Tell them they're hurting you and name how. Be explicit. Then nail that to something personal to create a trigger. "The next time you see your wife, think about strapping me down so I can't help myself. She's going to see that in your face. You're going to think of it."

Among the most ruthless is ticking the boxes of abuse: a difference in power, knowledge, and gratification. Threes are powerful. Use them.

You can't always stop people from hurting you. But you can usually get them back. Almost everyone in caregiving professions wants to think of themselves as "helping." Rip the blindoff off. It hurts like fuck. Cockroaches don't like light, and monsters don't like mirrors.

Let's not forget empathy. Many, many caregivers are untrained empaths, it's why they're so often a mess. You like sharp things. Make your pain into a knife and turn it on them. Often the effects will hit them later, but sometimes you'll get a sensitive one who will flinch right in front of you.

If you're worried about direct attacks provoking retaliation, use the disguised Verbal Attack Patterns. "If you REALLY cared..." is especially devastating in this situations. Almost nobody knows how to counter or even recognize VAPs so they usually work.

Note: the spectrum of force applies. These are extreme methods for when someone is hurting you. Don't use them in casual squabbles. Excessive force is not okay. And by extreme I mean it's possible to break people with this stuff. When they're trying to break YOU then it's justified.

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