Are you looking for signs someone is planning to harm you? Then you are just in the right place. We will uncover the human behavior layer by layer so you’ll see it from miles away when someone is plotting against you.
To be fair, this world is a dangerous place. Throughout history, we’ve been witnessing the wicked games of psychopaths or narcissists yet they appear very normal in their behavior.
They behave and interact just like an average Joe but are hiding dangerous and malicious intents hidden inside.
This is exceedingly alarming since so many people roam around us each day, but you don’t really know what runs inside the mind of that person.
But here’s a way to decipher their malicious intents. We can analyze their behavior and patterns and accurately conclude what they are up to.
So let’s ignite the Sherlock instinct and get going!
Signs Someone Is Planning to Harm You
Let’s dive into sneaky but very clear signs someone is planning to harm you.
1. They Appear Extra Friendly at Times
What? Isn’t being friendly with someone a good gesture? It certainly is!
But on the flip side, it could be one of the red signs someone is planning to harm you.
It’s actually all about the context.
Let’s understand it with reference to human nature.
It’s a no-brainer that friendly behavior is endorsed and is perceived as likable in society. We’ve been taught it from an early age.
And people plotting to harm you know this too quite well.
They try to appear extra friendly to give you the impression they are very agreeable and good in nature.
Their virtuous behavior is actually like a smoke screen to blind you from what’s coming next.
Once they take you in confidence and you trustingly turn your back on them, their true face will emerge.
They will stab you in the back but it will be too late for you to recover.
However, you shouldn’t be paranoid and distrust everyone who appears friendly.
But if someone just met you 5 minutes ago and is appearing like the most virtuous and good in-nature man you’ve ever met, then be cautioned! Since it’s not natural to build this level of rapport in only 5 minutes.
In this context, you might be interested in learning about the weaknesses of a manipulator to spot them early on and timely neutralize them, then check out our guide.
2. You Can Notice Flashes of Controlling Behavior
To be honest, it’s not an easy feat to cook malicious schemes inside your mind and still appear to project a friendly façade.
One has to wear a polite mask and constantly check on himself or watch his mouth and behavior to make sure his disguise is intact.
But it’s a lot of work. And under the moment of high stress, this mask is prone to leaking. And if it happens, it is one of the major signs someone is planning to harm you.
The one who wants to lay a trap for you will force you to do specific actions and make certain choices.
But if you pose resistance to it for some time, it will make him very fed up and frustrated from inside which will result in the leaking of his mask.
This frustrated behavior is a very predictable outcome when you ignore a manipulator.
He will slip up and exhibit controlling behavior, openly forcing you to behave in a certain way, but will quickly realize and try to get back into the friendly character.
It’s so common for people to sometimes show their dark side and lash out at you, only to apologize later on that ‘something came over me’. It was not something coming over them, it was just them getting out of character due to frustration.
Take everything at face under such moments and don’t buy into their excuses at all.
3. They Quickly Shift Topics When You Raise a Concern.
Laying a trap for someone isn’t that easy.
There are instances where your cover can be blown.
Just like emergency brakes, the schemer has to quickly distract the subject from the situation and deviate to something else.
Let’s say you are talking to someone. The discussion on certain topics is going on. You then raise a concern on something but the opponent quickly tries to change the topic.
He may introduce something else as a distraction or pretend not to hear the question and start doing something else.
What does it mean? It means that he was afraid that if you keep talking about that issue, you would reach the root cause of the thing he has been trying to hide.
It could be anything, from a fact he had been lying to you about or some trap he had been laying to harm you.
4. You Hear Rumors About Yourself from A Third Person
Psychopaths and narcissists are clever people.
One of their ways to manipulate you is to first isolate you from your support group like friends and family, so you would’ve no one to call to and you thus become an easy target.
If you hear any rumor about yourself, it is a grave sign someone is planning to harm you.
Because that rumor can potentially stain your reputation and may result in friends and family members turning off from you.
Who could be the culprit behind the spreading of the rumor?
Look at the context of the rumor and scan your past. Who were the last 5 people you talked about on that particular topic?
You may even try seeing who seemed interested or even obsessed when talking to you about the point that has been spread in the rumor.
Don’t doubt your gut here, you very much need it. And be wary of the people you talked to on the rumor topic lately. The imposter lies among them.
5. They Have Contradicting Micro-Expressions
Have you ever noticed that you’re having a great conversation with someone, everything appears so connected and the chemistry is unreal.
But suddenly you see them getting out of character for a very brief time, maybe a fraction of a second.
And then everything is restored, and the conversation begins to run again like before.
But what was that? Let’s unveil it.
It was his real face that got leaked through micro-expressions.
Micro-expressions, according to a recent study, are expressions on your face that last from as brief as 0.5 seconds, and it is impossible to fake them.
And since they can’t be faked, they are real carriers of someone’s intention and what they think of you.
Here’s Bill Clinton showing micro-expression at the end of the clip during his testimony.
However, decoding micro-expressions can be challenging due it their very brief time but with enough practice, you can read people like an open book.
So, if someone is exhibiting micro-expressions that are contradictory to what he’s saying, chances are he is hiding something or even holding a hostile intent for you.
Hey! Don’t blink, you may miss them.
6. They Try to Gaslight You
Gaslight is the favorite tactic of psychopaths and narcissists to throw you off balance and make you doubt yourself.
It’s also one of the clear signs someone is planning to harm you or at least have some malicious intent for you.
But what is gaslighting?
For those who don’t know, gaslighting is a psychological manipulation tactic aimed at making someone doubt their judgment and intuition.
The manipulator will take an event from the past and convince you that it happened in a certain while it clearly didn’t.
But the manipulator will put it to play with so much conviction that you’ll begin to doubt yourself that maybe I’m wrong and it might have happened that way.
This seed of doubt will make you question your sanity until you begin to buy what the manipulator wants you to feel.
For example, your friend arrives 10 minutes late but tries to straight away deny it that he’s on time.
You may ignore it thinking of it not something as a big issue.
He’ll then escalate his games and deny you again at another instant. It will appear unnatural to you to shut him up as you have agreed with him earlier.
Then this gaslighting will keep escalating to the point that you’ll think maybe something is wrong with me and ultimately begin to trust the manipulator.
And that’s where the trouble starts.
The manipulator will then begin to steer you in the direction of malicious intents he always held for you, and he won.
So if you have any of your friends, who denies you and tries to convince you of something that you are sure never happened, be wary of him.
He’s dangerous and it’s a matter of time before he reveals his true face.
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Conclusion
You’ve finally made it to the end of this article.
You now have a good understanding of signs someone is planning to harm you. The world is a dangerous place and you don’t really know whom to trust and whom to not.
Owing to the diversity of people living in this world, we’re bound to come across people of all different backgrounds and mindsets. Many of them will be wolves in sheep’s clothing and can be very dangerous, capable of harming you and inflicting a lot of pain. It thus becomes extremely important to spot them early on to know about their true face and intentions and save yourself from a lot of damage.
The signs provided in this article will help you uncover who holds hostile intentions towards you so you may prepare your defenses.
Which of the above points do you think will be the most effective in unveiling if someone is planning to harm you? Let us know in the comments below!
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