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Taking on Others Tradegies as their own

 
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fraggle_1972



Joined: 03 Mar 2007
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:38 am    Post subject: Taking on Others Tradegies as their own Reply with quote

Is it a common trait of an N to take on the tradegies of their supplies and manipulate and tweak them to make them their own?
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samvaknin



Joined: 15 Feb 2007
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 2:56 pm    Post subject: Extensions Reply with quote

the narcissist treats his sources of supply as extensions of himself or as possessions. As far as the narcissist is concerned, anything and everything that happens to the source - actually happens to the narcissist. The narcissist will use such tragedies-by-proxy to elicit sympathy and support.

Question:

In his drive for Narcissistic Supply, would the narcissist be callous enough to exploit the tragedy of others, if this were to secure him a new Supply Source?

Answer:

Continue to read this article here (click on this link):

http://samvak.tripod.com/faq10.html

When the narcissist is angry, unhappy, disappointed, injured, or hurt - he feels unable to express his emotions sincerely and openly since to do so would be to admit his frailty, his neediness, and his weaknesses. He deplores his own humanity - his emotions, his vulnerability, his susceptibility, his gullibility, his inadequacies, and his failures. So, he makes use of other people to express his pain and his frustration, his pent up anger and his aggression.

Continue to read this article here (click on this link):

http://samvak.tripod.com/journal33.html
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