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NAAll narcissists are both grandiose and vulnerable, sometimes overt and then covert (no type constancy).
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NAIn this lecture, Sam Vaknin explains that the narcissist is discontinuous across time. He lacks diachronic identity there is no stable self linking past, present, and future. Instead, identity is episodic, state-dependent, and fragmented.
The narcissist is developmentally arrested, psychologically frozen at an early stage described in object relations theory (see Otto Kernberg and Margaret Mahler). Because object constancy never fully formed, the narcissist cannot maintain an internal representation of others across time. When you are not present as a source of narcissistic supply, you cease to exist psychologically.
His past is confabulated, continuously rewritten to protect the False Self and eliminate shame. His future is not a genuine projection but a performative fantasy. He lives in an “eternal present,” where each emotional state replaces the previous one entirely. Idealization and devaluation are not shifts within a continuous personality they are separate compartments of a fragmented psyche.
The core thesis of the first half: the narcissist does not betray continuity he lacks it. What partners experience as erasure, rewriting of history, or abrupt emotional reversals is the manifestation of a structurally frozen, time-less self.
#samvaknin #emotionalabuse #narcissist #youarenotalone #mentalhealthawareness
@narc_destroyer_
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NACovert narcissism is a state of collapse: the recurrent failure to obtain narcissistic supply. All narcissists go through overt and covert phases, thorough every narcissist has a dominant state and a recessive (reactive state).
#samvaknin #covertnarcissism #narcissisticsupply #collapsednarcissist #vulnerablenarcissist
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NAIn this lecture, Sam Vaknin explains that the narcissist is discontinuous across time. He lacks diachronic identity, as in there is no stable self linking past, present, and future. Instead, identity is episodic, state dependent, and fragmented.
The narcissist is developmentally arrested, psychologically frozen at an early stage described in object relations theory (see Otto Kernberg and Margaret Mahler). Because object constancy never fully formed, the narcissist cannot maintain an internal representation of others across time. When you are not present as a source of narcissistic supply, you cease to exist psychologically.
His past is confabulated, continuously rewritten to protect the False Self and eliminate shame. His future is not a genuine projection but a performative fantasy. He lives in an “eternal present,” where each emotional state replaces the previous one entirely. Idealization and devaluation are not shifts within a continuous personality they are separate compartments of a fragmented psyche.
The core thesis of the first half: the narcissist does not betray continuity rather he lacks it. What partners experience as erasure, rewriting of history, or abrupt emotional reversals is the manifestation of a structurally frozen, time-less self.
#samvaknin #emotionalabuse #narcissist #narcissism #relationships
@narc_destroyer_
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NABased on Prof. Sam Vaknin’s work, when a narcissist experiences narcissistic injury (criticism, rejection, exposure, loss of control), the reaction is not merely emotional it is structural. The false self, which regulates their identity and self-worth, becomes destabilised.
Because pathological narcissism is organised around the avoidance of shame, the injury triggers intense internal dysregulation: shame, fragmentation anxiety, and a threat of psychological collapse. The narcissist cannot metabolise this shame internally, so the psyche externalises it. The narrative shifts from “I am flawed” to “I am being attacked.”
This is where persecutory ideation emerges. The other person is recast as malicious, hostile, or conspiratorial. Boundaries are reframed as aggression. Accountability is experienced as persecution.
In this state, retaliation often follows and importantly, it is usually symmetrical. What the narcissist perceives was done to them, they may enact upon the perceived persecutor. If they feel humiliated, they attempt to humiliate. If they feel abandoned, they withdraw or discard. If they feel destabilised, they try to destabilise the other.
Psychologically, this serves multiple regulatory functions:
• It converts shame into aggression (which feels more powerful and tolerable).
• It restores a sense of control and dominance.
• It reverses the victim–persecutor dynamic.
• It re-stabilises the grandiose self.
In Vaknin’s formulation, this is not calculated revenge in the ordinary sense. It is a defensive manoeuvre to prevent ego disintegration. Once the other person has been recast as the persecutor, retaliation becomes internally justified as self-defence.
The behaviour may appear disproportionate, obsessive, or escalatory from the outside but internally, it is experienced as survival
#samvaknin #emotionalabuse #narcissist #youarenotalone #mentalhealthawareness
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DRYou may have heard of DARVO, but have you heard of The Four D’s of Narcissism? 👀
These are the four stages that Narcissists go through to argue and, in many cases, avoid accountability at all costs. Here I tell you exactly what they do. 👊
Have you ever experienced this before? Let me know in the comments 👉
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MANot all narcissists are the same.
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THNarcissism is not black and white...
-Dr. Ramani Durvasula @doctorramani Psychologist & Author
Check out the trailer for the documentary Narcissist’s Playbook, the upcoming companion podcast, and donate at the link in bio & stories.
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@thenarcissistsplaybook
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NAThe most severe form of narcissism? It's manipulative, exploitative, and uses coercion and isolation. This is where relationships get dangerous. #narcunveiled #Narcissism #Psychology #Manipulation #ToxicRelationships #AbuseAwareness
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MIYou don’t have a narcissist problem anymore.
You have a survival identity problem.
Because even when the narcissist is gone…
The wiring often isn’t.
You still over-explain.
You still scan the room.
You still second-guess yourself.
You still brace before you speak.
That’s not about them.
That’s the identity you built to survive.
And if you’re honest, a lot of what you call “healing” is just analysing the past on repeat.
Narcissism Rewritten isn’t about obsessing over what they did.
It’s about recalibrating you.
Your nervous system.
Your beliefs.
Your identity.
So you stop organising your life around what happened
And start living from your future instead.
Survival was a chapter.
It doesn’t get to be the whole book.
If you’re ready to move, not just understand, that’s the work I do.
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@michelleportercoach
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NANarcissist Karma.
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#NarcissisticAbuse #Narcissism #Gaslighting #Triangulation #PsychologicalAbuse #ToxicRelationships #RedFlags #HealthyBoundaries #SelfEsteem #MentalHealth #Psychoeducation #Narcissist #ToxicRelationship #NarcissistAbuse #EmotionalAbuse #HealingJourney #BreakFree #NarcissistMap
@narcissistmap
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YUNot all successful people are narcissists and not all narcissists are successful. There are 4 main distributions between the two groups: 1. Successful people do ha a strong sense of self and stable self esteem 2. Have empathy 3. Able to regulate their emotions and almost never explode or get overly angry 4. Have a deep sense of satisfaction and happiness. Sorry guys, I ment to say content not contempt, healthy and successful people are often content but narcissistic people are very contemptuous, …#psychology #psychotherapy #narcissism #narcissismawareness
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