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TWELVE REASONS WHY GOING NO CONTACT WILL DRIVE NARCISSISTS CRAZY
By: Khalif Barkhadle,
Digital Journalist
Published On: 8th May 2025
Constant bickering with the narcissist will never drive them crazy, but cutting them down will, and you’ll see why. Narcissists live off of reactions, anger, tears, begging them to get well. The moment you cut off their supply and stop playing their game, they begin to fall apart.
It hits them where they hurt the most: their ego. Nothing scares a narcissist more than losing the control they believed they had over you. Today we’re discussing the 12 ways going no contact will make narcissists lose their minds.
Number 1: They lose their sense of superiority.
When a puppet severs its strings, the puppeteer loses his mind. Narcissists live on the fantasy that they are superior and always in control. When you go no contact, you eliminate that fantasy. Suddenly, they’re no longer the omnipotent one controlling everything; they’re just another mere mortal whose control has been severed. Dr. Ramani Durvasula, a leading expert on narcissism, states the greatest fear of a narcissist is being irrelevant, and that’s what no contact accomplishes it renders them irrelevant in your life.
Your silence isn’t only a restriction; it’s a challenge to their assumption of superiority. For this reason, they’re so fixated on it, attempting to figure out how to get you back into the fold. Without you, their superiority complex disintegrates. Consider…