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Originally Posted by hazn
Hmmmmmmm... but, as a narcissist, you attract certain types of people -- right? So, there's bound to be some similarities between the masks you wear. Like, what kind of roles do you typically play? How do you react when someone pokes holes in your mask? If you felt someone was losing interest in you, and so you were losing control, how would you react? How would you try to regain control of that person, and how far would you be willing to go?
Also, when you can clearly see that someone is suffering because of your manipulations, how do you feel? I know you don't feel empathy, but haven't you ever felt like... aaaah this person really suffering, what I'm doing is wrong. I know, this all probably sounds stupid to you.
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Typically I look for certain kinds of people, either my own kind for warrant of a better term or people who have high levels of empathy. With empathetic people they want to see emotions, empathy, caring, altruism, so I cultivate that image around such people and therefore that is obviously a mask I wear very often as most people have emotions and do feel empathy.
I loathe getting found out, it rarely happens but when it does I do get irritated.
If someone is losing interest in me I simply move on to someone else for the most part. It isn't hard. If I'm hellbent on someone for whatever reason though, I'll go very far... I get into a mode where I have a sort of tunnel vision and all I'm interested in is that person, I play to win.
When I see someone suffering from my behavior I range from total indifference to feeling satisfied depending on the situation. If you're asking if I ever feel remorseful/guilty then the answer is no. Never.