Emotional Immune response
| Emotional Defensiveness | Immune System |
| emotional attacks | Pathogens |
| not letting toxic words enter the self | Immune response |
| overreactions to non-threats (like feedback, mild disagreement, or even love) | Allergic reactions |
| possibly self-sabotage, or inner voices attacking the self | Autoimmune disorders |
| Internalizing all critique and emotional attacks | Lack or compromised immune system |
Narcissistic people’s emotional immune system has an allergic reaction to many things that don’t actually threaten their worth.
Maturity could be seen as:
Learning which emotional “pathogens” are real… and which are just pollen.