Hello I m Darren Magee and today s topic comes from many different questions in
and around the same subject. What are the common reactions,
what are the common behaviours of a narcissistic person whenever their tactics no longer work?
Whenever you're on to them, whenever they've been exposed. One way or another,
what happens when a narcissistic person feels they no longer have the control over someone that
they once had. So if you like this video, if you find it interesting or helpful, please consider
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mental health professional nor is it a tool to be used to diagnose someone. So first of
all narcissism can be characterised by a sense of entitlement, there s being self absorbed,
being disagreeable and either being highly sensitive or highly resistant to criticism. They,
they can be exploitative, manipulative, and they lack of empathy. And yes, let's be honest, we can
all be a little bit like that from time to time. But with narcissism, with pathological narcissism,
what we see is these behaviours are consistent, they are persistent, they are pervasive. They are
constant. So what happens when someone is onto them, someone figures them out
is a reasonable question to ask, given that they can be quite vindictive. Sometimes we ve no idea
how they might react. But if you have been in a relationship with someone who's narcissistic now,
when I was a partnership of friendship, or perhaps you were raised in a narcissistic family, you have
a fair idea they are not going to react well once they feel they can no longer control you.
So to understand that remember that narcissistic people tend to value themselves based on how
others admire them and pander to them. They have a very poor sense of self and very poor
insight. They need attention and validation and if others will not give it to them voluntarily,
or to sometimes the unreasonable standards that they demand, they will manipulate, coerce, bully,
guilt trip and shame in order to get it. They live in an internal world full of envy and shame,
and the strange thing is they tend to act in very shameful ways in order to escape that
feeling of shame. And those behaviours, things like devaluing, rejecting, punishing, cheating,
scorning, and so on, these are often the very things that drive people away. So some of the
common ways in which they behave whenever they do lose control over someone is first of all,
believe it or not, they might actually apologise. They might actually say they're sorry. And the
thing is, they probably are, but not necessarily sorry for the things they ve done or for the pain
they caused. More often than not, they are sorry for the consequences that they know face. They are
sorry that they're being abandoned. They are sorry that others can now see them as they really are.
Or there may be an apology, but it comes with some kind of excuse, such as, It's not me it's
my anxiety. I can't help it it's my illness. It's not my fault it's my addiction Or there may be a
caveat of some kind like, I am sorry, but after all you did say something ten years ago that I
found quite offensive . So even if you do get an apology, and even if it does sound very sincere,
they tend to last but a moment, a minute, a day, a week even. They generally go back to doing the
same things again. The very highly skilled ones just find a different way of doing the same thing.
Or it might not necessarily be an apology it might sound like they're trying to reason with you. So
imagine someone's going Grey Rock, they re just giving one word answers, or maybe someone's just
gone no contact or not responding. They may get a text or an email and it usually go along the
lines of, I've no idea what I've done to hurt you but I'll always love you . Following that,
you'll get a lot of word salad, and within that word salad there will be a veiled threat which
could be summed up as, And I'm going to let other people know what you're like. By the way,
I'll always love you . But if you do get a message like that, or if you do get an apology, you know,
pleading, tears, maybe you're considering giving them another chance, well, I'm not going to talk
you out of it, but what I will ask you to think about is to draw on your experience.
How many apologies were there in the past? Now, there might not have been that many,
but how many were there? And following the apology the bad behaviour changed?
If it didn't change, why do you think it will this time? Second common behaviour
is if a narcissist gets caught out they re generally never going to admit the truth.
Now if you think about it, if they don't admit their own errors, misjudgments,
mistakes, their limits, even to themselves, they're certainly not going to admit their
toxic behaviour to you or to anyone else. Instead there's normally a lot of false accusations. Twist
things you've said or done. Claim that you did or said things you never did or said.
Deliberately, and the keyword being deliberately, misinterpret you and your intentions. Some are
very good at this, and if you have been in a long term relationship with someone like this,
they have had a long time to fine tune their manipulation and their gaslighting tactics.
You might even find yourself doubting yourself. Especially if it seems like others are believing
them. Covert narcissists are particularly good at being very passive aggressive while acting humbly
and contrite. Thirdly, following a breakup, now if they hadn't isolated you from your friends
from your family, from your colleagues, then maybe they're going to start contacting them and
it ll usually be something along the lines of, I'm really concerned about them. I'm really concerned
about this person. Haven't heard from him in a long time. I'm worried about them , Or if you were
part of a club or a group or whatever, they may suddenly find that they have an interest in it.
They'll start turning up, showing up. They'll start getting involved in that sport or that
group or whatever it is and start mixing with your friends there. They may even contact your friends,
your family, invite them over to their place or go and visit them. Show that they re really decent
people that are not like how you may have been painting them to be. And this serves quite a few
purposes. It's to turn their victims social circle into their flying monkeys, their agents. To snoop,
to stalk for them, to feed them information. It's also a way of intimidating the victim.
Letting the victim, though they're not quite safe yet, they are still there. It also serves
to try and control how other people see them, as well as how other people are seeing the victim.
By its nature narcissism is very destructive, it tends to destroy things from the inside,
and when it can no longer do that, it tries to destroy it from the outside. Number four, they
will project onto their victims. They generally try to emotionally manipulate their victims into
taking responsibility for their actions, for their bad behaviour. Following a breakup of some kind,
now whether again, whether that's a friendship or a romantic relationship or whatever,
all that pain, guilt and shame is now being dumped onto the victims and they will do
whatever they have to do to try and manipulate the victims emotional side so that they will feel
pity and sympathy for them. My goodness, can they be persistent. They keep on an on pleading,
crying, begging, being, being angry until the victim apologises for how they feel at how they
were treated, even apologise for not being able to put up with the crap that they had to go through.
The expression I often use is they wet the bed and blamed the blanket . Common behaviour number five,
they are nasty and they are vindictive. How dare you see through them. How dare you no
longer want to put up with their nonsense. Don't forget, narcissistic people feel very entitled,
which usually means their victim deserves it and they can become consumed. Some can become violent
or may damage property. They may spread vicious rumours. They may deliberately withhold support,
resources, information. Anything at all that they believe will allow them to re-establish some sense
of power and control over their victims. One way or another, it's, it's almost like they think they
have to teach their victims a lesson. And lastly number six, if they know they can't trick,
manipulate or threaten anymore, they'll try to create a trauma bond. Now this can look like a
pattern of toxic behaviour that is, first of all, it's normal for the narcissists,
but for the victim, it becomes normalised. And it could look like maybe the victim believes
that they are depend in some high on that narcissistic person who is abusing them. Maybe
they are financially dependent. Maybe they have kids together, there has to be a level of contact.
Perhaps that person can't leave because their abuser is dependent on them. Perhaps there is an
illness or physical condition. If the bond wasn't there before, that trauma born wasn't there before
they may try to create one. If it was there, they'll try to strengthen it somehow,
use everything within their means to make it really difficult for the victim to assert any
kind of autonomy, or to leave. So they are just a few of the common characteristics and the common
behaviours of narcissistic people whenever they feel they are losing control over someone. Now
as always, there's a lot more I haven't added. If you want to add that, by all means please
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