{"id":9688,"date":"2025-07-13T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/788934037490352128-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:11:13","slug":"788934037490352128-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/788934037490352128-2\/","title":{"rendered":"788934037490352128"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"https:\/\/donotdestroy.tumblr.com\/post\/770203045156012032\/why-do-narcissists-play-the-victim\">donotdestroy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf='{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/psychcentral.com\/disorders\/narcissistic-personality-disorder\/narcissist-plays-the-victim\",\"display_url\":\"https:\/\/psychcentral.com\/disorders\/narcissistic-personality-disorder\/narcissist-plays-the-victim\",\"title\":\"Why Do Narcissists Play the Victim?\",\"description\":\"People with narcissistic personality disorder may resort to playing the victim in some scenarios.\",\"site_name\":\"Psych Central\",\"poster\":[{\"media_key\":\"b0aaf38bd4a3a29f2989eaae532e9532:fe91351c3b517d38-45\",\"type\":\"image\/jpeg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":628}]}'><a href=\"https:\/\/psychcentral.com\/disorders\/narcissistic-personality-disorder\/narcissist-plays-the-victim\" target=\"_blank\">Why Do Narcissists Play the Victim?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy a narcissist plays the victim depends on the situation and the type of narcissism they live with. Playing the victim or feeling like a victim may stem from lower self-esteem, low empathy, or a need for control. In every case, because NPD is a mental health condition, this behavior is linked to the symptoms that define the disorder and not to a personal choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>donotdestroy: Why Do Narcissists Play the Victim? \u201cWhy a narcissist &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12749],"tags":[582,655,1367,5859,1235,752,707,8043,10429,741,9995,731,732,705,708,6077,5487,704,3,2984,3683,2255,9994],"class_list":["post-9688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-awareness","tag-blame","tag-consciousness","tag-creative","tag-ego","tag-egomaniac","tag-entitlement","tag-influencer","tag-manipulated","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-illness","tag-mind","tag-narcissism","tag-narcissist","tag-personal-disorder","tag-psychology","tag-quote-of-the-day","tag-self-awareness","tag-self-conscious","tag-self-realization","tag-victim-blaming"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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