Compassion vs. Rage: Understanding Narcissists

Narcissists get angry when they are made to feel compassion.

Instead of feeling soft hearted, the opposite happens in them, first their heart grows colder and harder, and sometimes, they will fly into a rage — all because you or the situation demanded compassion.

This tends to only happen in private.

If things are out in the open, in public, they will put on the mask of fawning compassion, and it will usually be a show of overcompensation, nauseatingly obvious to some people.

Let me say this again

Narcissists get angry whenever they should feel compassion.

Let me say this once more

Narcissists instead get irritated whenever compassion is appropriate.

Let me say it one final time

Being in a vulnerable state, displaying your vulnerability, confessing to the narcissist that they’ve hurt you, confessing anything that requires compassion as the appropriate response, will instead get you rage from the narcissist.

Think about it. Reflect back on your life experiences.

Isn’t this funny?

Didn’t you get the shock of you life the first five times it happened? When you just confessed something…