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How to Cope with a Narcissist? Give up on your “relationship” with the narcissist and maintain a “no contact” policy. If you choose to stay with him either give him a taste of his own medicine by reflecting his misbehaviour – or provide him with narcissistic supply (attention and adulation).
No one should feel responsible for the narcissist's predicament. To him, others hardly exist – so enmeshed he is in himself and in the resulting misery of this very selfpreoccupation. Others are objects on which he projects his wrath, rage, suppressed and mutating aggression and, finally, ill disguised violence. How should his closest, nearest and dearest cope with his eccentric vagaries? The short answer is by abandoning him. Alternatively, you can try by threatening to abandon him. The threat to abandon need not be explicit or conditional ("If you don't do something or if you do it – I will ditch you"). In some cases it may be sufficient to confront the narcissist, to completely ignore him, to insist on respect for one's boundaries and wishes, or to shout back at him. The narcissist takes these signs of personal autonomy to be harbinger of impending separation and reacts with anxiety. The narcissist might be tamed by the very same weapons that he uses to subjugate others. The spectre of being abandoned looms large over everything else. In the narcissist's mind, every discordant note presages solitude and the resulting confrontation with his self. The narcissist is a person who is irreparably traumatized by the behaviour of the most important people in his life: his parents, role models, or peers. By being capricious, arbitrary, and sadistically judgmental, they moulded him into an adult, who fervently and obsessively tries to recreate the trauma in order to, this time around, resolve it (repetition complex). Thus, on the one hand, the narcissist feels that his freedom depends upon reenacting these early experiences. On the other hand, he is terrified by this prospect. Realizing that he is doomed to go through the same traumas over and over again, the narcissist distances himself by using his aggression to alienate, to humiliate and in general, to be emotionally absent. 93
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PERSONALITY DISORDERS EXPLAINED ANT
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1. INTRODUCTION Most of the persona
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BPD may say that they feel as if th
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disorders. Richer, more detailed de
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elationships. They almost always ch
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2. Codependence By Dr. Irene Matiat
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person's demeaning behaviour toward
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Why Be Codependent? Why would anybo
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When is it healthy to put the needs
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Parent Helping a parent often is li
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