There are many beasts in the backwoods that come out to play from time to time. One, according to medical doctor Brian Kaplan is, The invalidator; a put-down artist, who delights in dismissing another in public. According to Kaplan, author of Almost Happy, when a person is put- down by an invalidator they experience something akin to being mugged. Kaplan paints a scenario of a person at a social gathering, everything is going fine, when out of the blue someone says somethi