Narcissistic Rage Eyes – Why Do Their Eyes Go Black/ Dark?
Are you familiar with Narcissistic Rage Eyes? Why do their Eyes go Black or Dark? Narcissistic rage or fury is a very common site when you have a narcissistic family member around. But have you ever noticed the change of color of their eyes, their dilated pupils, or frowned eyebrows? These are all signs of narcissistic rage.
Rage is one of their most used emotion and when a narcissist is hurt by someone else, they would take it out on the person who is closest to them. Sometimes a narcissist just shuts down their emotions and chooses methods like rage, ignoring, silent treatment, blocking, or even disappearing for days. Narcissistic rage is so volatile, that it may leave you shaken for days.
Let us know further what is narcissistic rage, the reasons, the solutions, about Narcissistic Rage Eyes, all the changes in their eyes while they are furious, and everything related to a furious and angry narcissist.
Understanding Narcissistic Personality Disorder
If you are dating a narcissist, or have a narcissistic family member then be ready to be surprised by some of their unusual, surprising, or strange behavior patterns. This outlandish behavior may be the cause of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Understanding Narcissistic Personality Disorder is important in order to understand individuals suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD).
To understand NPD(Narcissistic Personality Disorder) in simple forms, let us put it in simple words. Narcissistic Personality Disorder is nothing but portraying toxic traits in an intensified state than others.
What is Narcissistic Rage?
Narcissistic rage is a counter-reaction or a defense mechanism utilized by a narcissist to shield themselves and save their grandiosity, superiority, esteem, self-worth, and their shiny spotless image from the arrows of setback, shame, inefficiency, disappointment, vulnerabilities, and anything that can devalue their worth.
Rage is usually defined as an extremely violent and out-of-control anger burst. The intensity of hostility, wrath, outrage, and outburst of violent words and actions is higher with rage as compared to anger. Rage is one of their most used emotion and when a narcissist is hurt by someone else, they would take it out on the person who is closest to them. Sometimes a narcissist just shuts down their emotions and chooses methods like rage, ignoring, silent treatment, blocking, or even disappearing for days.
A narcissist’s thought processes and reflexes are a little impossible to predict precisely. They act impulsively out of rage when proven wrong or pointed fingers at. Narcissists are passive-aggressive beings, who fail to connect emotionally with their loved ones hence they use various methods to feel powerful. Their actions always differ from what they have to say or believe.
The first and foremost reaction of a narcissist to any inconvenience caused by others is anger, rage, or wrath. If you have been with a narcissist you might be aware of their anger issues. They feel more agitated than usual when you ask them to reflect upon something. They would be harsh with their words. They would try to hurt you emotionally.
They might even call you names or use abusive vocabulary when you expose their shady side or do something that seems unpleasing or resentful to them, but do not get disheartened or terrified by their rage, as it is their go-to tactic to outburst their rage on you. And thus when they are displeased by something you have done or something that can trigger their outrageous side, be ready to face their fury.
As stated in an article about narcissistic rage,
“Narcissistic rage is a term that was first coined by author Heinz Kohut in 1972 to refer to the tendency for people with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) to fly into a rage with what might seem like the slightest provocation or no obvious provocation at all.
Are Rage and Anger the same?
Rage is intensified anger. Yes! They are similar. It is just that anger is a common emotion that can be experienced and is experienced by all when something displeasing, irritating or annoying incident occurs. Every once in a while everybody falls victim to someone’s anger outburst or someone falls victim to your anger outbursts.
The only difference is that narcissist channel their anger more intensively and in a magnified version that can severely hurt someone’s feelings and that outburst may be violent too in some cases. Rage is usually defined as an extremely violent and out-of-control anger burst.
Not all people have rage outbursts because they are narcissists, but rage can be caused due to various reasons like mental instability, depression, too much consumption of alcohol or drugs, and much more.
Causes of Narcissistic Rage
Narcissists use their narcissistic rage as a defense mechanism that occurs naturally, but we feel they pre-plan the scenarios but it is not so. Narcissists tend to shield their fake facades with their rage when someone tries to penetrate them with truth, confessions, or anything that harms it.
When someone tries to challenge a narcissist and their confidence, they may use narcissistic rage to defend themselves, by all means, to avoid exposing their weaker, inadequate selves. They may project the challenge on you and instead provoke you when you try to challenge a narcissist.
When someone tries to reveal their fake personality or confront them about it, this gives rise to narcissistic rage.
A Narcissist is an individual who is excessively obsessed to have control over all situations in their life. When a Narcissist cannot control you, they would be behaving more arrogantly and you might notice many changes in their behavior. They become the most difficult to deal with when they lose control or they may become completely different and would do such stuff to draw attention. One of the things that they do for gaining attention is by building unnecessary dramatic situations and pouring their rage out of blame on you.
Symptoms or signs of Narcissistic Rage
Narcissists start acting like they deserve all the attention in the world, thus demanding it. They would be having a sense of entitlement and would behave as if they deserve every ounce of attention and when you fail to do so they would be super pissed and you will have to face their narcissistic rage.
Narcissists may yell, scream, be violent or use such harsh words that may hurt you badly, this is a sign of their narcissistic rage.
Silent treatment and ignorance are also a part of their rage when they are wounded deeper and even words cannot cope with their anger. Then they choose to teach you a lesson by temporarily blocking you or giving you the silent treatment on purpose.
Their eyes, facial expressions, and body language do not match their words.
Now lets us drive deeper into the bodily changes of a narcissist when they are furious.
Narcissistic Rage Eyes – Why Do Their Eyes Go Black/ Dark?
First things first, let us not always judge someone and conclude that they might be a psychopath or bad. It is not appropriate to tag someone as a narcissist or a loony just by looking at their facial expressions or body language. But spotting the red flags is important to be aware and also secure yourself from unwanted situations.
When a narcissist is furious, their eyes turn deep dark, and have a demonic effect as suggested by some of the victims of narcissistic rage. This is an observation of some of the victims who have/had fallen victim to narcissistic rage. Their eyes constantly stare at you which is kind of crazy as their eyes become big, dark, and scary.
This may not happen visually but can be a manifestation of the victim. But this happens in many cases that person who is angry, their eyes become big, scary and sometimes even their pupils turn dark. This may be a response to facial expressions when a person is angry or it may also be a natural phenomenon. There is no certain proof regarding the Narcissistic Rage Eyes turning black.
Dark eyes or black eyes usually are a symbolization of evil, and hence it may be the subconscious mind of the people who might be symbolizing and connecting the same experience with narcissistic rage. Black eyes are a visual representation of evil, thus subconsciously people might be engaging the narcissistic rage situation with dark eyes as a pictorial or visual representation.
“The eyes are the windows to the soul”
-Anonymous
As suggested in the above-mentioned quote, a person’s soul can be clearly seen through their eyes. Being a Narcissist is not evil, but their eyes may clearly state their wrath and they may seem evil at that time in most cases when they are furious and have their rage outbursts. This may happen intentionally or unintentionally with a Narcissist, but it may still be scary for the person who is facing their wrath.
When a narcissist is unhappy with some of your actions, they would usually roll their eyes at you, or give you a side eye. If a narcissist wants to threaten you, they might look straight into your eyes for a prolonged period. They would stare at you in an uncommon fashion which can simply make you uncomfortable. This is often termed a Gaze or Death stare.
The body language of a narcissist is rigid and unlikely repulsive, but they try to create false mirrored facial expressions and give such signals to their victims with their body language. They can easily attract someone with their mere gaze, and those with shy nature and low esteem may fall for their fake charm.
Conclusion
Narcissists use their narcissistic rage as a defense mechanism that occurs naturally, but we feel they pre-plan the scenarios but it is not so. Narcissists tend to shield their fake facades with their rage when someone tries to penetrate them with truth, confessions, or anything that harms it.
When a narcissist is unhappy with some of your actions, they would usually roll their eyes at you, or give you a side eye. If a narcissist wants to threaten you, they might look straight into your eyes for a prolonged period. They would stare at you in an uncommon fashion which can simply make you uncomfortable. This is often termed a Gaze or Death stare.
Dark eyes or black eyes usually are a symbolization of evil, and hence it may be the subconscious mind of the people who might be symbolizing and connecting the same experience with narcissistic rage. Black eyes are a visual representation of evil, thus subconsciously people might be engaging the narcissistic rage situation with dark eyes as a pictorial or visual representation.
Although it is not always correct to point out someone as a Narcissist just because they possess a few of the above-mentioned facial expressions, body language, or reactions. When certain expressions or actions tend to have malignant effects on you, then you need to observe the red flags and step away from such people.
From Relationship, Depression, and Personality Disorder to Narcissistic problems, I have helped a lot of people find their solutions. Upon gathering a number of common problems that people face, I decided to put the information on this blog so that anyone can get their answers easily.
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