Here is a clear, legally grounded explanation of how courts identify vexatious litigants, with practical insight into warning signs, legal criteria, and what judges actually look for: How Courts Identify Vexatious Litigants Legal Definition (General Principle) A vexatious litigant is someone who repeatedly brings legal actions that are: Core Indicators Courts Look For 1. Excessive filings 🚩 Pattern: volume > substance 2.… Read More Endless appeals
Some people will spend tens — even hundreds — of thousands fighting nothing. Not to resolve.Not to protect themselves.But to maintain dominance, punish independence, and avoid losing psychological power. Here’s what psychology, neuroscience, and legal research all show about this: Why Some People Spend Vast Sums Fighting Pointlessly 1. Control is more important than money For these personalities: Power… Read More Vexatious Litigation / High Conflict Personality Litigation
Here is a clear, grounded explanation of the mindset, psychology, and nervous-system drivers behind people who obsessively fight for control using lawyers, even when there is nothing real to fight about. Core Pattern: Control addiction Some people are not fighting issues.They are fighting loss of dominance. The legal system becomes their weapon of emotional regulation. 🧠 Neuroscience: What’s happening in their brain &… Read More The Psychology & Neuroscience of Compulsive Control Through Legal Warfare
Here’s a clear, grounded definition of control, with concrete real-world examples, especially in the context of abuse, coercive control, and unhealthy power dynamics: What is control? Control is the systematic use of fear, pressure, threat, manipulation, or power to override another person’s autonomy, choices, safety, dignity, or freedom. It is not disagreement.It is domination. Core forms of control 1. Threat-based control… Read More What is control?
Our first film is broadcasting on BBC iPlayer & BBC Scotland Channel right now! Also on BBC Two 9pm tomorrow. Made with great skill and kindness by Marta García Aliaga, Flora Stewart, David Arthur, Nancy Bornat and our brilliant team in Scotland. Thanks to the incredible Jenni, Shannon, Robyn and Natalie for sharing their shocking… Read More Lover, Liar, Predator
When someone describes every single past partner, ex, colleague, or friend as: There is a critical psychological question that must be asked: Who is the only consistent factor in all of these relationships? From a neuroscience perspective, this pattern reveals defensive nervous system wiring, not bad luck. 🧠 The Brain’s Threat-Protection System When a person cannot tolerate accountability,… Read More When All Past Victims Are “Jealous” or “Liars” — Who Is the Common Denominator?
There is a specific dating pattern that rarely gets named, yet many women eventually recognize it only after emotional, psychological, or financial harm has already occurred: Serial daters who actively seek out vulnerable women who have stability, property, or resources. This is not romance.It is strategic attachment. From a neuroscience perspective, this behavior is driven less… Read More Serial Daters Who Target Vulnerable Women With Property — A Neuroscience Perspective
When you’re overwhelmed by your own struggles, it’s easy to become inward.But the people around you still need to be seen, heard, and valued.Make time. Check in.Love is built in those small moments of presence.
When someone reacts with anger, threats, or character attacks to simple truth, it usually means: Truth doesn’t need to be defended.It simply reveals. People who are living honestly might feel uncomfortable, embarrassed, or even sad — but they don’t attack. They reflect. They adjust. They grow. But people living a lie often: Because if they don’t, their… Read More “The only people mad at you for telling the truth are those who are living the lie.”
1. High Empathy = High Projection Bias Emotionally intelligent people feel deeply, so their brain naturally assumes: “Others feel the way I do.” This is called empathic projection. Your nervous system is wired for: So your brain expects emotional coherence in others. But not all nervous systems are wired that way. This creates: over-trust based on internal truth,… Read More Why Emotionally Intelligent People Trust Too Deeply
