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I’m fortunate not to know any really serious narcissists (I think), so maybe this makes no sense, but it’s interesting to me that 1, 2, and 3 in your list seem
by msteffen 3y ago
I’m fortunate not to know any really serious narcissists (I think), so maybe this makes no sense, but it’s interesting to me that 1, 2, and 3 in your list seem to roughly correspond to the first three stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining)
- smeej 3y agoIt does seem a bit like a fight against what might otherwise become the death of their self-image. The difference between it and actual grief seems to be that the unwanted outcome is not inevitable here. Sometimes this works. Hopefully we can make it less and less likely to work over time by raising awareness of the tactic.