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EXPOSED — The Scary Truth About a Narcissist’s Silent Treatment and Why It’s Secretly Your Way Out

The Narcissists Silent Treatment Is Injuring Your Psyche, Here’s How You Turn the Tables

Honor Payne
4 min readDec 12, 2024
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Silent treatment from a narcissist can feel brutal and unwarranted.
They do this as part of the devaluing and discarding phase.

The longer you are in a narcissist’s life, the more often you will see this as it is really a narcissist’s default setting around other people since they experience nothing outside of themselves and everyone else are just objects anyway.

You might be wondering what you have done to warrant such treatment, and the truth is that you did nothing.

They might be imagining that you have done something to them as they often do whenever they start a discard cycle.

But these ideas are buried in so much fiction that they are only real for the narcissist and their enablers.

Does a Narcissist Ever Really Talk to You Though?

They’re ignoring you, which psychologists say causes the same chemical reaction in the brain as a punch in the face.

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Honor Payne
Honor Payne

Written by Honor Payne

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