I don’t know why, but I seem to regularly get pulled into interactions with narcissistic bullies. They come into my world and they seem to try to invalidate my experience. Most recently, there’s a person who has been haphazardly trolling some of my articles. I write “person” only because I have no idea of the gender of this coward. He or she hides behind a spiritual-bypass pseudonym.
If you read my stuff, you’ll know that I’m continually trying to discover and reveal what’s true for me as accurately and as vulnerably as possible. I’ve written recently about projective identification and how I tend to take on the projections of narcissists in a kind of inverse narcissism.
I seem to have such a compulsion to engage with these fools. It’s clear that they’re simply projecting their own stuff onto me rather than taking it to their therapist. I engage with it and it distracts me from doing what I love, which is writing about and sharing my experience.
Here’s an example of how I end up wasting energy on these fools:
If me writing about my life is selling, then I’ll keep on selling, thank you very much. It’s spiritual bypassing to claim that there is something wrong with selling or something wrong with suffering. There’s nothing wrong with any of it, even the spiritual bypassing. It’s totally fine for you to…
