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!If you're always the emotional therapist for your friends, maybe it’s time to stop charging your soul for their insecurities.!
ok so here is something I thought I would never write. Maybe it is one of the meanest and yet truest things I ever said.
Being surrounded and being friends with insecure people is exhausting. Especially as a warm and caring
... See moreNarcissists sometimes will create a matching picture in their space to manipulate someone else. Think of this like a phony common ground picture. “Oh! I’m just like you!” Yep. Nope. Narcissists manufacture emotions at will. It’s a small step for them to see what pictures you’ve got in your aura and manufacture the same picture in their aura.
Wayne Martin • A Psychic Bedside Reader: Tips, Techniques, Meditations, and Healings for the Novice and Experienced Reader and Healer
The main problem with a narcissistic personality disorder, technically speaking in terms of the syndrome, is sensitivity to criticism. If you are a narcissist and people criticize you, you may experience great anxiety and fragmentation. When they are not criticizing you, and especially if they are constantly mirroring you, you may feel pretty calm
... See moreRobert L. Moore • Facing the Dragon: Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity
And, it’s particularly difficult because narcissists work hard to build up a feeling of obligation, hoping it will keep us locked in despite the way they mistreat us.
Rokelle Lerner • The Object of My Affection Is in My Reflection: Coping with Narcissists
Narcissism(Grandiosity) + Social media addiction + Midlife crisis ÷ Public shaming = Right-wing meltdown.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
“It became this fixation that I would hold on to every single good thing that was said about me and try to shake off any of the bad things, and that is a very, very toxic environment to be in.”