Is ignoring offensive comments, hate or criticism just avoidance? Would ignoring them or isolating myself from such situations help with rejection sensitive dysphoria or make it worse?

The more secure your sense of self, the less likely you are to react with anger. Anger is a response to our ego feeling under attack. There is no threat of imminent physical bodily harm. There is only a perceived threat to our fragile ego. For our ego to survive, it needs to be right. And to be right it has to make others wrong. So our anger is how we know our ego has kicked in. We are making what someone else said or did to be wrong‚ so that we can feel right.

Psychologists refer to it as victim mentality, and it is recognised as one of the hallmark traits of malignant narcissism. The malignant narcissist hides their feelings of inferiority behind the self-righteously moralistic camouflage of anger. If malignant narcissists had a catchphrase it would be 'Woe is me! The world is so bad towards me!' Malignant narcissists constantly consider themselves as victims of the negative actions of others. And they will very often resort to some form of passive-aggression.

Sadly, we have fostered a culture which encourages people to use anger to conceal their feelings of fear, inadequacy, and self-doubt. And we see more and more angry people creating external conflicts as projections of their own internal conflicts.  And because our modern society placates and rewards people who consider themselves as victims, we are creating the perfect environment for the cultivation of malignant narcissism .

The more secure your sense of self, the less likely you are to react with anger. Anger is a response to our ego feeling under attack. There is no threat of imminent physical bodily harm. There is only a perceived threat to our fragile ego. For our ego to survive, it needs to be right. And to be right it has to make others wrong. So our anger is how we know our ego has kicked in. We are making what someone else said or did to be wrong‚ so that we can feel right.

Psychologists refer to it as victim mentality, and it is recognised as one of the hallmark traits of malignant narcissism. The malignant narcissist hides their feelings of inferiority behind the self-righteously moralistic camouflage of anger. If malignant narcissists had a catchphrase it would be 'Woe is me! The world is so bad towards me!' Malignant narcissists constantly consider themselves as victims of the negative actions of others. And they will very often resort to some form of passive-aggression.

Sadly, we have fostered a culture which encourages people to use anger to conceal their feelings of fear, inadequacy, and self-doubt. And we see more and more angry people creating external conflicts as projections of their own internal conflicts.  And because our modern society placates and rewards people who consider themselves as victims, we are creating the perfect environment for the cultivation of malignant narcissism .