re: Have you ever encountered a psychopath before?

Most people overuse those terms.

I was a staff psychiatrist in a maximum level prison for a brief while.

I met 2 of them.

Chilling people. No guilt. No emotion. They view other people as no more important than the most insignificant object in the room.

All that is important is what they want at that exact moment. They can't have normal conversations because everything they say is a set up for how they can manipulate you later. They will change their mannerisms, behaviors, even their subtle patterns of speech by 180 degrees based on who is in the room.

You don't want to meet one.

It's nauseating.