Here's why narcissists so often take out their negative feelings on the people around them instead of examining their own role in a situation
depends upon external events , how a narcissist acts around others when he gets unhappy can be inferred. But to be clear, a narcissist who gets unhappy:Privately feels overwhelmed, mildly panicked, or “out of gas” but can’t express that vulnerability forGets stuck “living in” his feelings instead of feeling them and then getting over them
Culminates his process of coping with negative feelings by seeking out the safest person to discharge his unhappy or upset feelings onto For the narcissist, there is no way out of emotional turmoil except to discharge their negative feelings onto someone else, and that “someone else” is usually a person inside their own home or in their work environment—but never a superior.
When the narcissist’s ego is triggered—almost always the cause of them becoming unhappy—their feelings are too big and amorphous for them to handle or, clinically, to integrate. The narcissist is guarded and proud as a rule, but he becomes pathologically so when he starts feeling unhappy, as his unhappy feelings are ones he can’tThe cycle of negativity continues, and his pent-up, unbridled negative feelings escalate to the point that he becomes like a glass bottle on the verge of an explosion.
In answer to these questions, I’ll pose two others. Hypothetically, does a 4-year-old who has a tantrum at a local restaurant today intentionally try to ruin his parents’ meal? Was the 4-year-old’s motive to make his parents unhappy? While the narcissist we’re considering here is an adult by chronological age, it’s imperative to understand that, according to the age of emotional development, the narcissist is more similar to a child when he becomes unhappy than to a normal adult.
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