Once the narcissist is triggered by your strength, confidence, courage, and personal power, in addition to discrediting and smearing you to others, they will also jump at every opportunity to knock you down a peg or two. They’ll happily point out any mistakes, flaws, failings, or perceived shortcomings to ensure you don’t think too highly of yourself, feel good about yourself in any way, or, God forbid, allow anyone to see you in a favorable light.
They’ll hold your history and any past mistakes over your head with a bizarre sense of glee. This tactic is just one more way they undermine your sense of self-worth and self-esteem. They’ll take great delight in literally holding your past against you, as if displaying an old picture on the wall that they simply refuse to take down. No matter how far you’ve come, no matter how much you’ve grown, or how much you’ve changed in the years or decades since, anything they can latch onto can and will be used against you.
They will also take great pleasure in honing in on any vulnerabilities with deliberate intent to cause you to second-guess yourself, doubt yourself, and question your worth. In other words, they will deliberately manufacture and amplify any feelings of guilt, shame, fear, inadequacy, and insecurity within you for no other reason than to keep you in line and feeling inferior. When, in reality, it’s their own deeply buried, disowned feelings of inferiority that drive all of this nonsense and insanity.
If you haven’t been on the receiving end of this sort of emotional and psychological abuse, it can be difficult to fathom that people can be this cruel for no other reason than their own fear, shame, and insecurities have been triggered. But I assure you, it happens every day, all day long in the realm of narcissistic abuse.
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