Which brings us to Stage Number Two: Internal Rage Accumulation. When narcissists are forced to sit in the misery they’ve created and are held accountable for it, the rage inside them starts to build. This rage becomes more dangerous because the helplessness they feel turns into explosive anger. This is where their ego begins to rot from the inside. The rage they feel is not normal anger; it is humiliation mixed with a deep sense of powerlessness. They can’t handle the fact that someone didn’t fall for their tactics.
So the rage grows silently, tightening like a noose around whatever is left of their humanity. This is the beginning of their emotional decay. What makes this phase terrifying is that the rage becomes quiet. A silent narcissist is far more dangerous than a screaming one. Their silence is not calm; it is pure calculation. It is the moment they stop reacting emotionally and start strategically. They begin plotting how to restore their superiority, how to punish the person who dared to expose them, and how to erase the shame burning inside them. This is not anger anymore; it’s transformation—the emotional equivalent of a switch breaking permanently.
This rage becomes worse when the narcissist forgets the difference between right and wrong. Before this, they had no morals, but now they don’t even fear the law. The rage takes over them, and the most dangerous part is that they never show it. This rage is different. They plan and plot just to satisfy their bruised ego. That’s what their psychopathy is all about.
Phase 3: The Empathy Shutdown
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