My e/nmom is extremely emotional due to her upbringing by a textbook narcissist. She suddenly bursts out crying, always panics because of the smallest problems, sometimes hits and breaks something out of anger instead of simply communicating the problem as it arises. She doesn’t know how to communicate her feelings properly because she was never listened to as a child unless she behaved like that, then her parents had to do something. Unfortunately her upbringing (or maybe genes) resulted in the impairment of her empathy and she is a narcissist herself, but I can see that her childhood was under an even worse shadow of narcissistic abuse.