Maladaptive Cascade
The vicious cycle of narcissism or as Pascall Wallisch likes to call maladaptive cascade has three phases:
- A vulnerable narcissist fears that they're not perceived in a certain way;
- They self-aggrandize to alleviate that fear; then
- Others are put off by their behavior thus putting the narcissist back to square one -- which makes this all a vicious and repetitive cycle.
Many narcissists don't actually realize that they are the problem because they are resistant to change.
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