If you are being met with any kind of smear campaign, stick to the facts. He limited me to one meal a daywhile nursing our newborn.” Tips for When You’re Facing A Smear Campaign This all caused my closest friends and family to lose all faith in me and totally secluded me from the outside world. He’d tell his family and our close friends that we had true love, yet behind my back tell them I was crazy and suicidal – and he was doing the best he could to help me. “He held a gun to his head and said that he’d kill himself, make it look like murder to ensure I was to blame if I didn’t shoot myself after. Smear campaigns can be launched by telling blatant lies about the victim, spreading rumors or “suggestions” which call into doubt the sanity of the victim with an air of faux concern, or even concocting false evidence to isolate the victim from outside support.Ī survivor, Molly, shared with me her harrowing story of how her narcissistic partner tried to stage his own death to frame her and spread lies about her sanity.
NARCISSISTS ARE PATHOLOGICAL LIARS PROFESSIONAL
When you have a police officer who lies, cheats, and steals a health professional who believes himself the arbiter of who lives or dies a coach who sexually abuses trusting children, the potential to do damage increases exponentially.” When narcissists infiltrate the higher ranks of authority, they have the potential to cause even more devastation by sabotaging those they perceive as competition.Īs Joe Navarro, former FBI Profiler, writes in his book, Dangerous Personalities, “Narcissists can reach high levels in high-powered or high-trust professions, where transgressions and abuses of authority can have devastating consequences. It’s not uncommon, for example, for a pathologically envious sociopathic co-worker to feed misinformation about their hard-working colleagues to their bosses in order to eliminate them as a “threat” when climbing the corporate ladder. Smear campaigns can also be launched in contexts outside of romantic relationships they can circulate in the workplace, in friendship circles, through the media, as well as within extended families. Malignant narcissists preemptively strike with personal attacks in an attempt to unsettle you and smear your good name because they are pathologically envious or threatened. The abuser works overtime to paint you as the abuser in order to escape accountability for his or her actions.Īt the root of all smear campaigns is character assassination.
This is a form of gaslighting intended to manage your image in the public eye to ensure that no one would believe you were being abused. Covert predators like these will spread falsehoods to slander your reputation or smear your credibility to others.
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