When a narcissist realizes they’re finally losing their footing, that they’re slipping, losing their grip on you, they do not just give up quietly. When their life starts falling apart, what do they do? They press the ultimate self-destruct button, which is very different from narcissistic collapse. When they start self-sabotaging, you may watch them do things that look completely crazy and unbelievable to the outside world. Like they’ll suddenly viciously start attacking their biggest enabler in the family—possibly the golden child, the one who always defended them. Or they may put on a wholly religious disguise and act just to force strangers to respect them when there is nothing to respect at all.
When their normal tricks stop working, they scramble for anything that will keep them afloat. These vague behaviors may confuse you and others at first, but they are actually the biggest clues that their power is gone.
When a narcissist’s life begins to crash, their brain goes into absolute panic. For years, they survived by controlling you, lying to everyone, and pretending to be perfect. But eventually the lies run out. The people around them wake up.
When this happens, the narcissist experiences a total internal collapse because they have no real personality underneath their fake mask, right? They do not know how to handle failure. Instead of fixing their mistakes, they start making wild, desperate moves—impatiently and impulsively. If you see a narcissist doing these five things, you can smile, because it means their game is permanently over.
Like I was saying in the beginning, usually a narcissist has one specific person in the family who can never do anything wrong. That can be this golden child. It can be their own spouse—anybody. But it is a big damn enabler who is always hiding behind their back.
This is the person who always acts like their loyal servant. But when a narcissist’s life collapses and they have no one else left to bully, they will do the unthinkable. They will turn around and bite the exact hand that feeds them.
My grandfather, for example, did this exact thing for his entire life. His eldest son, my uncle, was his ultimate golden child. He listened to the bigger narcissist, respected him, and stood by him. But when my grandfather got older, and his power started to diminish, he completely destroyed his own son.
He ruined my uncle’s health with endless stress. He played horrible, cruel games with the family will. He messed with my uncle’s land and his money. The story is long. Moral is one that he just flipped on him. He would curse him day in and day out.
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