Does the following sound at all familiar?
Enter Extinction Bursts
Extinction Bursts occur when an individual uses a social behavior to either get their way or get the desired reaction from someone. When someone isn’t getting the reaction they want or expect, they up the ante. They escalate the behavior in severity in an attempt to get the reaction they anticipated. This is one of those concepts that once you understand it, everything changes.
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I’m someone who has a lot of experience trying to figure out how to get away from narcissists. They threaten and freak out but once I’ve been out that door - I was still okay - I didn’t really need them - and there was nothing they could really do to control me anymore.
They can’t tyrannize us without our consent.
Learn about narcissism:
Here are some traits to look for:
• Lying and deceiving
A lack of care and concern for others (and/or self)
A severely limited emotional intelligence
A lack of remorse or guilt
Aggressiveness (active or passive)
Narcissistic tendencies: charm, grandiosity, exaggeration of ones own good qualities and achievements, seeing others as objects, a sense of entitlement and feeling special, exploiting and hurting others, black and white thinking, heavy projection, and a few others
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A lot of narcissists freak out when the tricks that used to work don’t work anymore on their targets.