What do you do when you regret your whole life?

21 Ways to Stop Regretting the Life You Didn’t Have

1. Stop thinking it’s too late. It’s never too late to atone for past mistakes.
2. Separate reality from fiction.
3. Quit asking the wrong question.
4. Own up to your mistake.
5. Divorce your regret.
6. Atone for your past failings in the present.
7. Take the focus off yourself.
8. Counter your regretful thoughts.

Will a narcissist admit they are wrong?

A person with narcissistic personality disorder isn’t likely to admit a mistake or take responsibility for hurting you. Instead, they tend to project their own negative behaviors onto you or someone else.

Are Narcissists manipulative?

Narcissistic personality disorder involves a pattern of self-centered, arrogant thinking and behavior, a lack of empathy and consideration for other people, and an excessive need for admiration. Others often describe people with NPD as cocky, manipulative, selfish, patronizing, and demanding.

Should I regret the past?

Don’t regret your past decisions because they led you to where you are today, no matter where that might be. Everything in life has its purpose. As long as you can keep a positive outlook on life, things do improve over time. Allow yourself that.

Why do I regret my life?

Simply put, we regret choices we make, because we worry that we should have made other choices. We think we should have done something better, but didn’t. We regret these choices, which are in the past and can’t be changed, because we compare them to an ideal path that we think we should have taken.

How do narcissists manipulate?

Verbal trickery is their preferred method of manipulation and they have a talent for saying the right thing at the right time to confuse, belittle and degrade the other person. They devalue their victims, purposefully seeking to make them feel worthless so that they may subjugate them to their will.