I believe if LE will use this, they can destroy her by having her destroy herself........
People like her are manipulative and by treating you (or others) like you're nothing is just one of many ways they act out their fantasy world that they are so grand that you are dirt under their feet. So, look out. Delusions of grandeur are hard to maintain and are constantly challenged by reality. (this is where she can be attacked)
For example, do you have a fine reputation? Look out, that threatens the narcissist's delusion that she is the greatest, so she'll have to fix that fine reputation of yours. Do you excel at something?
Look out, that threatens the narcissist's delusion that she is the greatest, so she'll have to sabotage your work. Do you have an outstanding personal virtue? Look out, that threatens the narcissist's delusion that she is the greatest, so she'll have to drag your virtue through the mud, attributing it to herself while she portrays it in you as a vice.
Yes, pathological envy is her middle name. They set a goal and they will destroy anyone in their path to get there.
But treating others like nothing and destroying them aren't the only ways narcissists act out their fantasy and maintain their delusions of grandeur. Those delusions evaporate without constant reinforcement, so a malignant narcissist needs to prove she's God Almighty by trampling someone about as frequently as most other predators need to make a kill.
It's just more of the same. So that the narcissist can think she seems grand, she must crush you like a bug underfoot. This is the way she controls her parents.
If you are down and out, or show ANY weakness, look out, you're going to get kicked. Can she get away with abusing you behind closed doors? Look out. And if you try to complain, you'll be sorry, because she'll have the whole world conned ahead of time into viewing you as the malicious one who's imagining things.
The typical brutal dictator, like Nero, Saddam Hussein, Josef Stalin, and Aloph Hitler, is or was a malignant narcissist. (They acted out how grand they were by trampling people by the millions.) But so is the typical street con artist, often described by law enforcement officials as the most sadistic of criminals in the art of mental cruelty. They have no feeling for those less than them. All things/persons are disposable.
Pedophile priests are usually diagnosed as malignant narcissists. Serial bullies, serial adulterers, gold-diggers, love thieves. Character assassin is every narcissist's middle name. Rapists, child abusers, serial killers. In fact, all psychopaths are malignant narcissists, but whether all malignant narcissists are psychopaths is still being debated.
In short, these type of narcissists are a form of predator who hunt easy prey to plunder them in one way or another, mainly for ego gratification.They can't stand to be made fun of even in jest. Because they have to feel greater than you, they are competing with you or someone else for every bit of it. Anything you get or love, they view as rightly belonging to them. So, they have to take it away.
A person's self respect. A person's good name. Another's success. The love of a child.
This is the mentality that stands out so glaringly in this type of person: from the gutter, they gotta tear you down off that pedestal and treat you like dirt to prove they're better than you.
That isn't natural. It isn't natural to hate innocence. It isn't natural to attack people who are no threat to you and have done you no harm. It isn't natural to treat the other members of one's own family as prey. But psychopaths and narcissists of this type do.
Most of them get their jollies without leaving visible bite marks in their victims. Most never push the envelope of risk-taking to the point of violent crime. They will resort to violence if they "have to."
Instead they drive lovers, children, employees, schoolmates all the way to suicide through mental cruelty calculated to deliver sadistic emotional and psychological abuse. They cross the line into physical or sexual violence only when they think they can get away with it and when safer forms of treating people like dirt no longer deliver the high they are addicted to.
Whether by choice or not, psychopaths and these type of narcissists are able to do this because they have no human feeling whatsoever for anyone. Except themselves: they have very, very tender feelings for themselves. But none for anyone else, not even their own children. Their children are nothing more than "props" for their play and if they become a problem they will get rid of them too.They always view human beings as being beneath them and view them as objects, tools, to exploit for their gratification to perfect that image of theirs that they are so obsessed with.
For, like a child of two,she doesn't relate to other people: She treats people around her like a screw driver there for her to use or abuse for her sake. She disregards the consequences to you, because she refuses to grow up and know that there is a thinking, feeling person inside other people and that they exist for their own sakes, not hers. So your rights and feelings and welfare are no of consideration to her whatsoever. She will break you just lightly as she would stomp an ant.
Never forget that for a moment. Forgetting it is as dangerous as walking into a hungry tiger's cage forgetting that she is predator.
Narcissists and psychopaths often try to hide this brutal inhumanity and total lack of empathy by mimicking human emotions, often melodramatically. They are extremely sneaky and manipulative, mainly because they've been practicing these arts nonstop from about the age of six. They often rise to high positions in government and the business world because they don't care who they destroy to get there. Many times they have a messianic complex and can't understand why others can't see their greatness.
Unless they are so powerful they needn't hide what they are, they go to great lengths to portray themselves as the very opposite of what they are. They are pathological liars who tell bizarre lies. They often write books about themselves which are filled with half truths. They never write a book about anyone else. They often react to things in a bizarre way that makes you pinch yourself. Yet despite these warning signs that there is something wrong with them, and despite the mental maturity level of a little child before the Age of Reason, they almost always pass for normal. They use lower subordinates to do their dirty work destroying others when in a powerful position.
If they sucker you into getting too close and then rip your guts out, it isn't because of anything you did or anything about you they don't like: it's just because you were there and vulnerable (unable to defend yourself) like Amy when she was out of the country.
Since narcissists are such expert con artists, how do you spot them? By not judging by appearances. Or reputation.
A specific behavior, such as being haughty, inconsiderate, or ignoring someone, can occur in widely varying contexts. So, it can be done for many reasons, not just narcissistic reasons. Nonetheless, there are few behaviors so unique to persons suffering from NPD that they should serve as red flags.
Here are some red flags:
· puts on a conspicuous display of goodness and kindness
· damages the images of most others
· has a history of past upheavals
· is hated for mysterious reasons by people close to them
· exhibits unnatural and perplexing behavior — backwards reactions to things
· is a control freak, trampling privacy/boundaries
· is extremely self-absorbed
· has an extremely hostile reaction to attention and credit given others
Not that it applies to this case, but I also believe Obama to be in the same class.