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How Narcissists Use Numbness to Hide Their True Selves

Waleed Ahmed
3 min readDec 26, 2024

Factors that accelerate the detection of Cluster B personality disorder

Sensitivity to both truth and lies
Sensitivity to both violence and harmony

sensitivity to diligence and indifference
sensitivity to both obedience and disobedience
Sensitivity to both brutality and compassion
Things that make it difficult to diagnose personality disorders

disregard for truth and falsity
Inaccurate notions of truth due to moral relativity
ignoring deceit and falsehoods
Unquestioningly accepting contradictions
Aggression numbness, microaggression, microantagonism, and different weaponizations
numbness or indifference to judging someone who only wants things on their own terms, to fairness, to balance, to equity, or to seeing someone fail to do the right thing, incidentally do the wrong thing, or discard doing the right thing, or disregard rules, principles, and accountability
numbness when someone engages in passive hostility, micro-angry, trolls, thwarts, ruin-seeks, or chooses to be unpleasant
blindness to duties to return compassion or refrain from hurting innocent people
Truth and deception, good and evil, are incomprehensible to all narcissists.

Every single narcissist wants to make you as numb to those things as they are.

Regardless of the violence they…

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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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