I too fall into the tentacles of sickos.
I grew up with a Psychopath father and I still cannot get out, he's in the family. And he reached his tentacles over to all my friends, relatives (wom he all curses at home)

They all love him!
My Psychopath fahter is the most evil person that I ever had contact with. And because of him, other Psychopath's always got me. Perhaps because I "played the game". Now I know how it works and avoid other Psychopath's.

But my dad remains, he haunts me everywhere. He convinces people of his sick stories and those people tell them to me. This happens all over again. Been going on for 25 years now. I am nearing 26 and I feel I lsot a quarter of a century with this sicko.
Interestingly I tried braking with him at 23. But I missed him at 24, so we kind of got back togther. Now at 25-26, he is even worse than he was, some of the sicko things that he did, still continues doing today.
I continue my life, many new things happen, I want to get a PHD and many other things.
But my Psychopath father cannot even perceive how/who I am, he remains stuck in his sick dimension.
He' a horrible man, but is full of charm and so many people love him, including his enemies.

I feel doomed whenever I see all people around adoring him, like he was a humorous entertainer like Jay Leno... He also plays like a Dalai Lama, smart, who always shows me as the "bad" one... But inr eality, he's a Mr.Hyde, an emotional monster! Only a handful of people know it and understand me

I believe he's sick and evil, both.
At first I believed that he was only the latter, then I read about Psychopath's and noticed he shows all the characteristics and I felt destroyed...... It was a horrible thing to find out that my dad was not only a bad intentioned, but also a sick man, who cannot feel reality, cannot love anyone, but himself!