This happens when the narcissist is finally held accountable for their wrongdoings. No matter how much they try to escape it, they are forced to feel the pain, and none of their deflection or crazy tactics work anymore. They are forced to sit with the consequences, and that’s something a narcissist cannot survive. They cannot tolerate it. This is the moment their entire identity shatters. When a narcissist is confronted with the truth and has no exit left, their world collapses internally. Accountability feels like death to them because it exposes the one thing they’ve spent their entire life running from: who they really are.
When they are forced to sit in their own damage, even for a second, their mind begins its descent that I mentioned. This happens when the narcissist underestimates their supply— the people they abuse—and believes they will never leave or show the courage to abandon them. When their Grade A supply shows the courage to walk away, their whole false sense of self starts to crumble. For the first time, they are held accountable. This is also the moment they meet themselves for the first time, and they hate what they see.
Narcissists survive on denial. The second you strip that away, they face a truth so ugly and disgusting to their ego that their psyche cracks. They do not process accountability like a normal person; they experience it as an attack, an insult, a humiliation so severe that it rewires their brain. This is the birthplace of their psychological collapse—the beginning of their transformation from a delusional manipulator into something far darker.
Phase 2: Internal Rage Accumulation
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