Number 4: Narcissistic rage.
Some narcissists are more prone to actually just rage out, going over the top, screaming, while some are more prone to the silent treatment. Especially if a narcissist is prone to raging out, you’re going to know exactly what I’m talking about here. What I’m talking about is going from calm to furious for seemingly no apparent reason. Whatever it is, sometimes we make light of it and say that it could be as simple as asking to pass the salt, but if you’ve experienced it, you know that’s not too far from the truth. It could be something seemingly innocent, something you say a hundred times a day, but just this one time, it triggers a rage so severe it’s almost like your head is left spinning. It’s again that shame that is buried beneath, and somehow you touched upon it.
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Maybe, for some reason, they were especially vulnerable to it at that moment; you just didn’t know. It’s not that we want to go around doing these things, but in hindsight, it can help to look at the full picture of who this person is and to understand that even though it seems like they’re getting everything they want, even though it seems like they can hurt other people and they’re left unchecked, that’s not the true picture of what’s really going on. Narcissists are truly very unhappy people at their core. So, even in their happiest moments, all of that negativity is lurking beneath the surface. Imagine if that were you in your happiest moment; you could be triggered like that, and something seemingly so benign can set you off. How happy could you really be?
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