 The Narcissists one-up inferiority complex. Hello survivors, I'm going to talk about this emotional problem which narcissists have. I'd like to call it the one-up inferiority complex. It has been developed over a long period of time. It is an emotional problem caused by unreasonable fears or worries. The root cause of this is childhood abuse, neglect or a traumatic experience. This later developed the Narcissist inner critic. This is the voice inside their heads telling them that they are not good enough. They cannot do anything right or they are inferior. The Narcissist inner critic then develops into their inferiority complex. I believe that their inferiority complex is a symptom of their post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD. I believe that their one-up complex is their post-traumatic stress response, PTSD. They are responding to the stress of their traumas by trying to one-up you. It is their past traumas that are making them feel inferior and not good enough. These feelings arise when you are in their presence because they believe that you are superior to them. This then triggers their PTSD. Your presence, progress, success and good qualities resurfaces their past traumas. The Narcissist is having an emotional flashback where they were the victim of someone else who had a one-up complex inferiority complex. An inferiority complex surfaces whenever the feelings of their inferiority become intense. We already know that Narcissists have low self-esteem and low self-worth. They are also full of self-hate, anger and envy and these negative qualities which they possess are linked perfectly with their inferiority complex. Their inferiority complex is triggered usually through discouragement or failure but even you just being there and presenting yourself, presenting your good qualities can trigger them to attack. When an emotionally healthy person feels inferior in any situation they will self-reflect and immediately identify that these feelings are unreasonable. They will realize that there is no justification for them to feel this way but of course the Narcissist doesn't do that. The Narcissist cannot self-reflect. Their only other option is to one-up you. You are like pornography to them. Their emotional and psychological abuse is their masturbation and believe me they are getting off so they have to abuse and manipulate you to create the illusion that they are actually above you but if this was true they wouldn't need any of that. You become a tool which they use to regulate their emotions to regulate their self-worth and self-esteem but it's called self-worth and self-esteem for a reason. Those qualities are supposed to come from within otherwise they're not real they're just an illusion of self-worth and self-esteem. They are obsessed with trying to win with no end yet they believe they have already won. Well if you have won why are you still trying to win? You don't need to keep playing a game competing using a one-up complex if you have already won but Narcissist can never win because they have an inferiority complex so they will continue trying to compete with you losing at every attempt because no matter what they do to you you will continue to self-reflect and there's no competition between someone who self-reflects and someone who has to dump their emotional baggage onto other people. They can never win and this is why the competition with them never ends. I just like to finish off with an analogy which I'm sure many of you can relate to if you have dealt with a Narcissist imagine a beach on a hot summer's day when you were a child just sitting on the sand minding your own business you just built a sandcastle and you felt so proud of what you just built then another kid comes along and stamps all over it because they couldn't build a sandcastle like that and if you dare to rebuild that sandcastle they will kick it back down while you're still trying to rebuild it they will wait around to watch you so that you can never build that sandcastle again because it is a reflection of everything they are not that's the mindset these Narcissists are still stuck in they are as emotionally immature now as they were back then they cannot build they can only destroy so if they can't build their own sandcastle they're going to to destroy yours and this was the birth of their one up inferiority complex thank you