"There are MANY ways that a Narcissist will confuse or corrupt your thought processes, isolate you, and hold you prisoner in your own mind!
The Narcissist creates negative and debilitating messages that trap us in our own heads without them even being in our physical presence.
Be it raging, accusations, silencing, or distracting themselves from you for days OR whatever they throw your way.
They bait you with an argument and it escalates with the Narcissist taking it to a higher and higher level of dysfunction to purposely manage you down and you are left dumbfounded and DAZED with their hit and run message.
The Narcissist then goes into the punishment mode by running off or silencing you and leaving you in shock or traumatized by the nonsense. From there you are left to your own devices trying to make sense out of total NONSENSE.
You try to rationalize this with your 'normal empathy' but that is impossible as it concerns a Narcissist because their words and actions are poisonous to their victim's mind and MEANT to be..."
Read entire article @: After Narcissitic Abuse