...u let me do it because that's what you are used to. You are dumfounded. But I was wrong to take pity on you. You really are incompetent, disrespectf... ... abort" they reassert their omnipotence. The narcissist's pronounced and public misery and self-pity are compensatory and "reinforce (his) self-est... ...I can sometimes get to places where I'm inconsolable, because I get stuck in bitterness and self-pity, and so I doubt the sincerity or the reliabili... ... MY pathological envy gets triggered, I will be bluntly honest about it. I'll say something self-pitying, such as: 'You always get the good stuff, a... ... Can you reassure me that I'm not?' That's a lot better than making some snide, hostile, or self-pitying comment that puts the other person on the d... ...sly, what I'm trying to do. And ultimately, I'm not kidding anyone, least of all myself." Self-Pity and Depression "More self-pity and depression ... ...ly. His mask of superior equanimity is pierced by displays of impotent rage, self-loathing, self-pity, and crass attempts at manipulation of his fri...

...most destroyed me. Now when I think of him I feel absolutely nothing, zero. No hate, no pity, not an ounce of love – just nothing. And it's wonderfu... ...ourselves attached to a mental pendulum, swinging between repulsion and guilt, rage and pity, lack of empathy and remorse. Slowly we acquire the ver... ... threatened, I go unpredictably wild. In doing so I (very often) provoke repulsion and pity and (much less often) fear and amazement. Often I find ... ... empathise with you. He has no mercy on you – you, in return, do not harbour misplaced pity for him. Never give him a second chance. React with your...

...ces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, tur...