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Compassion and Narcissism Don’t Mix: Here’s Why

Waleed Ahmed
3 min readDec 6, 2024

Compassion my ass.

Feeling compassion means being sympathetic and being concerned for the sufferings or misfortunes of others.

First thing :

The whole compassion thing is to build on a false assumption that claims that narcissism stems from childhood trauma and everything they do is a defensive mechanism.

But that’s not quite right.

Narcissists and narcissism are about offense and offending you, and here is some real question for those who claim that it’s a defensive mechanism.

1- Hoovering is a defense for what?

To suck the victim back to the relationship without correcting their behaviors.

2- Triangulation is a defense for what?

Hiring and recruiting a third party to debase you and demean you is defense?.

3- Not feeling gratitude, Chaos, crazy-making, southward driven, ruin seeking, future faking, betrayal, repaying ill for good, false promises, erratic, unprincipled, unscrupulous, shameless, ruthless, hypocrisy.

All these are defenses to what?

So, I am gonna ask the question in the right way:

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Waleed Ahmed
Waleed Ahmed

Written by Waleed Ahmed

I'm Waleed Ahmed, and I'm passionate about content related to software development, 3D design, Arts, books, technology, self-improvement, Poetry and Psychology.

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