Walking On Eggshells

I’m not sure what the correct term is for “…carefully evaluating everything you say and do in order not to piss someone off without being able to know beforehand what word or action might be a trigger so you don’t do or say it thereby avoiding the psychotic fallout”. I call it “walking on eggshells”. Kinda sounds like the movie “Sleeping With The Enemy” with Julia Roberts. There are a few people in my life that I avoid completely because they are too scary to be alone with even in a room with windows and doors and a designated escape route. These people believe they can intimidate me into allowing everything to be “their way or the highway” and I had better know which is “their way”. My ex-husband and my brother are good examples. My father (who is deceased) was angry and manipulative and equally scary and he was diagnosed “paranoid”. These people are usually quite volatile. They are just too emotionally unstable and sensitive to live. They take offense at everything. I call some of them Borderlines, Paranoids, or Narcissists. (Politicians call them Tea Baggers.) They are irrational, shortsighted, bigoted, angry, provocative, unreasonable and extremists. Some have “Gone Postal”. Some have flown airplanes into buildings (like the small aircraft pilot in Austin, TX). Some of the narcissists, given enough time, may even become serial killers, stuffing rags in their victims mouths before they strangle them as a way of metaphorically shutting up all who might piss them off or say something they don’t want to hear. These people need to be kept away from the rest of us. I wonder if we could outsource them? There should be a use for their talents. Maybe send them to Afghanistan to see if they can intimidate the Taliban??