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The Sinister Reason Why NARCISSISTS Need to Constantly STIR UP TROUBLE Even If It Hurts Them

You Thought They Did It Because They Didn’t Care, but the Truth Is Far Worse

Honor Payne
3 min readMar 25, 2025
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Narcissists will constantly run around in the street, telling lies or a different version of events to everyone that they meet.

This might seem completely illogical even self-sabotaging in the long term, because if it’s you or your family they are lying about, word will get back to you and what they have done will be exposed.

However a narcissist is not thinking about this because the chronic emptiness that a narcissist feels leads to boredom and a constant need for stimulation.

In an earlier article I explored how its not that narcissists don’t have emotions, its that they experience them very differently.

Their relentless boredom is one of these ways that they differ from everyone else.

When a narcissist does something in their life, they don’t feel anything about it if it was quite an ordinary thing to do, for example going on a family outing.

They cannot think about how great it is to be finally spending some quality time together with the family and everyone else.

Instead, they are there bored out of their minds, going through the motions, all the while wondering what they could be doing that would be more fun.

If you’ve ever been to a family gathering with a narcissist you’ll know that it would seem that they will stop at nothing to persistently mess it up.

But these actions are brought about by their need to stave off their boredom, and they way they do this, is by committing riskier and riskier acts with no regard for the consequences.

In short, they cause the trouble that they do because it’s fun for them.

Now I don’t mean that it’s a joke, I mean that the discontent, ruined events, and smear campaigns all happened because causing chaos and breaking social norms is an enjoyable activity for a narcissist, the riskier the better.

Furthermore, there isn’t any reward for behaving normally where they are concerned because when they act…

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Honor Payne
Honor Payne

Written by Honor Payne

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