And let the target know it, too! That might bring her back to her senses. A terrified target is a well-behaved target.

Yeah, that's the extreme it comes to. If we know the tricks of the trade beforehand, we might be able to get out from under their control before it's too late. I'd rather be written off as some "crazy psycho yammering (ahem) who listened to all those other crazy psycho yammering (ahem)s" than be trapped where I'm hating myself.

There will be a Part Three, elaborating on "nobody else will ever love you like I do" and calling the same behavior by a different name depending on who's doing it. I'm mentally putting it together now.