Why narcissistic people are actually energy vampires?
Keep in mind that when we’re talking about people who land on the spectrum of destructive narcissism, we are quite literally talking about people who are energy vampires. That’s fundamentally what is going on when you’re enmeshed in, or working to break free from, a relationship with a narcissistic person. And this is never more true than when you’re an empath with little to no codependency recovery under your belt. You feel completely drained, and depleted, quite frankly, because you are.
The reality is, narcissistic people, thrive on intensity, drama, and emotional chaos, as well as fear, pain, anxiety, confusion, and discomfort, which is precisely why they smirk with such smug satisfaction anytime they think they’ve succeeded in upsetting you. When they know they can affect you this way, you’re a good target; an excellent source of narcissistic supply. And what ensues is fully vampiric behavior.
Narcissists will poke, provoke and deliberately bait you, whether that be passively or aggressively, in order to elicit an emotional reaction, so they can then literally feed off of that negative emotional energy. They’ll go out of their way to manufacture an intense, high-voltage reaction, if you let them, and then proceed to feed off of it just like a vampire or demonic entity would.
THIS IS WHAT YOUR SILENCE DOES TO THE NARCISSIST.
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