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