Self-esteem is a crucial factor in every person’s mental health. Low self-esteem can make a person shy, feel worthless or even become a narcissist. In my article about narcissists and gaslighting , I said that abusive narcissists usually target their victim’s self-esteem because when it’s ruined, the victim becomes easy to control and manipulate. Narcissists …
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Sometimes you might find yourself in a situation where a toxic narcissist, constantly seeks to keep you closer to him no matter how hard you try to push him away. In this case, you might feel stuck in the toxic relationship not knowing what to do to make the narcissist discard you and leave you …
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Gaslighting can have really bad psychological effects on the person being gaslighted especially if they didn’t understand the intentions of the narcissist. In order to deal with a gaslighting narcissist correctly, it’s very important to understand their motives and intentions first, which I discussed in the previous post. You can read it first before proceeding …
Gaslighting is a manipulation tactic used by narcissists and other abusers to distort someone’s sense of reality. Gaslighting usually involves the narcissist trying to make the victim doubt his or her own sanity, perception, memory and self-worth. For example, a gaslighting narcissist may pick his victim on a small mistake she did, then starts harshly …
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Narcissistic hoovering is when a narcissist who had previously devalued or discarded someone tries to bring them back by using manipulation tactics such as love bombing. Most often, they do this by being temporarily overly nice in order to attract that person back. Most people who had been devalued or discarded by their narcissistic partner …
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When I’m coaching people, sometimes they ask me what they can do to make a narcissist dependent on them in order to make it harder for the narcissist to leave them. I know you may be wondering why anybody would want to make a narcissist dependent on them but there are many reasons why some …
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Narcissism does not only exist on a spectrum but also in types. While there is mild to severe narcissism, there is also pathological and healthy narcissism. Before you know what make some narcissists pathological and others healthy, let me first briefly define both of them. Pathological narcissists are the mentally ill type of narcissists. Most …
How do narcissists feel when you move on? Do narcissists care if you move on? Before I answer those questions, it’s important to know how narcissists think. A narcissist’s self-esteem and happiness greatly depend on the position they think they hold in other people’s mind. Of course all people care about other people’s opinion to …
Sometimes, when I’m doing relationship counselling to people who are dealing with a narcissist, I get asked questions such as; how to make a narcissist miserable. It’s completely normal to feel a desire for revenge after going through emotional abuse and betrayal. Anger is also a normal stage that most people go through when a …
Manipulation is not always a bad thing. All people are manipulative in one way or another. When was the last time you approached someone smiling even though you were not feeling that happy? You smiled because you wanted to make a good first impression right? Manipulation is not a bad thing as long as it’s …