How to Spot a Covert Narcissist: The Subtle Signs of Hidden Hostility

The most difficult to identify are covert (closet) narcissists.

This is due to the fact that they don’t overtly display any grandiosity, self-exaltation, or self-deification.

You can be sure that they are just as grandiose, self-exalted, and self-deified as any other kind of narcissist. However, unlike other forms of narcissism, which behave as an open show, covert narcissism acts more like a filthy little secret.

However, there is one characteristic that all narcissists have that makes it simple to identify hidden narcissists.

Hatred is the root of all narcissists.

It is much simpler as a result.

Because if you know what to look for, you can see the telltale indications of hate.

Hatred cannot exist without the want to degrade.

For this reason, all narcissists like pulling others down, demeaning, humiliating, betraying, backstabbing, maliciously talking about, hurting, and joyfully inflicting physical, mental, or emotional harm on them. They act in this way out of hate.

Therefore, the hostility of covert narcissists is no less than that of other types of narcissism. Certain forms of narcissism are really co-morbid. Therefore, having a covert malignant narcissist — someone cunning and very clandestine, yet extremely malevolent and destructive — is not…