People who are narcissistic tend to go off into a rage from provocations that most people would consider slight or nonexistent. There is a figurative whiplash brought on by the erratic behaviours of a narcissistic person.
They fool you so much and before you know it, they've managed to take you on a gaslighting journey: three steps forward, four steps back. Sadly, you end up focusing so much on the three steps forward that you end up failing to notice the four steps back. That is when the cognitive dissonance sends you into a spiral and unbeknownst to you, you've been gaslighted. The narcissitic person's personality is extremely complex. When in the presence of people they need to impress, they act so prim and proper and loving and caring. However, when you get them alone, and if they no longer feel the need to impress you, that's when you end up seeing them for who they really are: egomaniacal douchebags with overly inflated egos and a deep lack of empathy.
Narcissistic people need other people to give them consistent admiration and positive feedback. But a failure of such veneration can elicit underlying feelings of shame that trigger an instant angry response; this response is accompanied by lashing out without caring how it impacts those on the receiving end. The narcissistic person's thin skin and sensitivity is the root cause for rage due to a deep-seated fear of being "found out" for not being the person they portray themselves to be.
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