What happens when a narcissist loses a good source of supply?

Narcissistic supply is the admiration, obedience, attention, affirmation, etc. that the narcissist needs to receive from other people in order to maintain their fragile self-esteem.

Just because a person is no longer around does not mean they are not still supplying the needs of the narcissist.

Narcissists are very capable at manipulating any situation to suit their purposes. Even though a person who was a good source of supply walked away, the narcissist is still able to use that person to get supply. To explain I will share a personal example.

My mother is a covert narcissist and I have always been one of her top two best sources of supply. I was her first born and that placed me in the position to put her narcissism on steroids because I took attention from her and immediately became her competition. Being an empath made me an automatic target. Being a truth teller meant I was the biggest threat to the fake self she had created. All of these things gave her a lot of ways to get supply from me. These things also set me up as the family scapegoat and a mirage that could provide her supply even when I wasn’t around or had nothing to do with whatever she was upset about. Now that I am No Contact with her she can still blame me for anything wrong in her life. I know she is doing it because…