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Why do some narcissists act JUST LIKE YOU? · The Mental Healness Podcast

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  So why do some narcissists act just like you in the beginning
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  of the relationship if you're new here?
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  My name is Lee Hammock. I'm a clinically diagnosed
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  narcissist. And welcome to another episode
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  of The Narcissist Code. Boom.
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  Welcome back, welcome back. Welcome back.
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  Y'all we hype. We hype.
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  We hype, We hype. Tonight is the night I'm
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  releasing my very first course, understanding the seven stages
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  of a narcissistic relationship. Y'all the link is going to be
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  coming out here pretty soon. Join my newsletter to get up to
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  video and podcast I do. But yes yes yes, yes, y'all.
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  Yes. Welcome, welcome, welcome,
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  welcome. So think about this.
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  Think about this space right here.
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  Y'all. In the beginning of a
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  relationship with a narcissistic person, you very rarely meet the
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  real version of them. Now, I've done videos on this
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  before, but some narcissists will absolutely will actually be
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  honest with you upfront about who they are, what they're going
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  to do, what they have done in the past, right?
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  There are some narcissists out there that will absolutely do
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  that. I'm not saying all of them, but
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  some narcissists will give you a hey, we'll give you kind of like
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  the the warning signs. They'll I did this the other
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  day. But like, they'll put, like, the
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  first date. They'll use the red flag as
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  like, a handkerchief. Hey, you have a snotty nose.
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  Here. Blow into this right here.
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  I'll. I got, I have.
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  I have plenty more where this came from.
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  You know, put it in a pocket. Some of them will.
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  Some of them will absolutely give you the red flag in the
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  beginning, you know what I mean? But there are a lot of
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  narcissistic people who lack identity.
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  They really don't care about themselves internally.
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  There's a way deeper video. I can get into that later about
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  them not caring about themselves, but they don't like
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  who they are internally. I'm one of them.
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  I really don't like who I am internally, You know what I
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  mean? I might, I might express that
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  externally, but internally I don't really like who I am,
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  right? So there's a a piece of me that
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  messes with me and it just I I if I don't like who I am, how
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  could you ever like me? You know?
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  And that's the mindset that a lot of narcissistic people face.
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  It's like if I don't like me, there is no way that you will.
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  There's no way that you will like the real version of me
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  because I don't even like me. I don't even think I'm likable.
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  So you going to be like you going to like me.
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  I don't believe that, you know? So there's a lot of narcissistic
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  people out there who in real like, realistically don't think
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  that like you will like them for who they really are.
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  So they put the mirror up to you.
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  They study you, they analyze you.
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  They become who they feel like they need to be in order to get
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  you to fall for them. So they in in the beginning,
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  they might absolutely act like you.
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  They'll act just like you. They'll y'all have this.
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  All of a sudden y'all have the same weird quirky interest.
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  Like you might like this obscure band from the middle in the
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  middle of nowhere, an obscure band from the the the
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  Appalachian Mountain Mountains called the Jim Carrey.
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  Jim the Jim Carrey in Dumb and Numbers.
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  That's the name of the band. All of a sudden they they like
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  them too. The Jim Carrey and Dumb and
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  Dumbers. Wow, I love that band.
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  They they Oh my goodness. And if you have this in your
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  dating profile, they might have actually looked them up.
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  They might have actually already looked them up.
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  If you if y'all have talked before, you let them know your
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  favorite band. They've already studied you and
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  looked them up and might absolutely know some songs by
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  them. So you give them the blueprint
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  to become you. That's why I just tell people in
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  the beginning of a relationship with a narcissist, a lot of
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  y'all fall in love with a version of yourself.
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  They are mirroring you. So many of y'all keep thinking
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  that you're not worthy of love. They, the narcissistic person
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  has somehow convinced you not somehow they manipulate you.
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  I I I get it. They've convinced you that
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  you're not worthy of love. That nobody else will want you.
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  Nobody else can love you like I can love you, right?
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  But they they they took on your personality, the
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  characteristics, so you are lovable.
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  You fell in love with your version of yourself, so you love
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  you so self. Love is the best love.
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  You love your version. You love a version of yourself
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  that you see reflected back to you.
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  So you are worthy of love. They think so lowly of
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  themselves that they started to act like you.
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  They took on your personality characteristics.
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  They faked the funk to get to you.
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  So you are worthy of love. They're showing you that you're
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  worthy of love by mirroring you, by picking up your traits,
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  because they don't feel like they are enough.
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  So they picking up your traits. So think about.
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  Right. So think about it from that
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  angle right there. They know that you are such a
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  good person or energetic person. Whatever you have going for you.
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  They know it. So much so that they act like
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  you because they know like, damn, you're better than me.
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  I want you to fall for me so I can take I saw that you act like
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  you. I pick up your mannerisms.
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  I do this, I do that. I mirror you.
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  I start saying I try to try to finish each each other's
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  sandwiches. That's what I was going to say.
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  You see what I'm saying? They mirror you.
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  Hans of the Southern Isles mirrored Anna in Frozen because
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  he didn't like himself. He's like my brothers.
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  I'm the youngest of 15 brothers. They pretended that I was
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  invisible. They didn't like me, so I didn't
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  like me. So he started to act like her.
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  Kind of goofy, you know, man, just vulnerable.
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  He was like, oh, then at the end he showed his true colours.
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  At the end of Frozen, Hans showed his true colours.
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  Hans kissed me. I need a true loves kisses with
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  all my heart. Hans is like new and OK for
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  love. You then he told her.
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  He told her his sinister ass plan.
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  They know that you are a good person.
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  They know that you have a good heart.
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  They know that you are lovable. So much so that they start to
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  act like you. Even they saw that they start to
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  act like you sometimes even within your own friend group.
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  They try to replace you in your friend group by pretending to be
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  you, a different version of you, and try to isolate you out out
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  of the friendship, right? They try to get you away from
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  your your own friend circle. You see this?
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  This is not true for everybody, but this is true for a lot of
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  people out here in this situation.
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  You know, they try to isolate you away from your friends and
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  they start becoming friends with your friends.
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  They take over your life. It's just like the impostor.
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  They become an imposter. They might as well take a mask
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  of your body in your face and wear like a damn skin suit.
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  Like who's what's your boy? Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw.
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  Texas Chainsaw Basket. That's what they're doing.
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  They're just acting like you. They're trying to become you
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  because you are lovable. Why do they act like you?
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  Because you are lovable. You said I flipped the topic of
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  this video and made it into some self love, didn't I?
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  You like leave how you do that. How you do How you leave how you
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  do that. Dude, I know.
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  What y'all want to hear it? No, I'm joking.
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  But that's the thing about that, right?
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  That's the thing right there. You are lovable.
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  They know it. They know it.
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  Narcissistic people, don't they. They don't hunt people that are
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  not worthy. You know what I'm saying?
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  They don't hunt people that just sometimes they like challenges.
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  They see who you are. They mirror.
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  Like sometimes they like say again the same things that they
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  love about you In the beginning they will turn around and hate
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  you for. So even as even the traits that
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  they start to mirror or the hobbies or habits that they
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  start to mirror and pick up from you, they will hate you for
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  those later on. They will resent you for those
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  same exact things later on. And I know it sounds backwards,
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  I know it sounds confusing because sometimes it can be.
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  But they will hate you for the exact same things that they tell
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  you that that they love you for. The things that they fell in
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  love with you for they turn around and hate later on.
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  I can't believe this happening. Y'all you are strong.
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  You deserve it. Go, go, go get the life that you
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  deserve. You can't you won't live the
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  life that you deserve. Being with somebody who acts
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  like you. Yeah.
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  You felt you are so lovable that you fell in love with a a
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  different version of yourself. You can like you can remove
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  that. You can remove the imposter from
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  your life. I know sometimes they get
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  ingrained in your life and then once they have you feel like
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  they have you trapped. That's when they take the you
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  mask off. So once they feel like they have
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  you trapped or E meshed in this immersed in this relationship,
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  that's when they take the you mask off the wow you mask they
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  take it off and become who they really are.
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  It's like, hey, you don't look like it anymore.
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  You don't you don't have the hey, I'm going to go see the
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  guess who's playing tonight. The Jim Carrey's from Dumb and
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  Dumber. They're in town.
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  Oh, I hate that band. Wait what?
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  I thought you loved them. You you said your favorite song
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  was that I oh I lied to you. I hate that band.
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  Like, who the hell? What kind of name is that The
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  Jim Carrey's from Dumb and Dumbers.
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  It's it's a band of. It's it's a band of women.
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  The Jim Carrey's like, this doesn't make sense.
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  Like what does it make sense at all?
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  You see what I'm saying? They don't really like it.
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  They don't really like that. But some of the some of the
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  stuff they will keep, yeah. Some of the some of the traits
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  of things like they will, they will quick, real quick.
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  They real. Some of the things they real, I
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  can't get that straight today. Some of the things they will
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  keep because it they it benefits them in some way, shape or form.
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  It allows them to manipulate the next person.
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  Like I said, they pick up personality characteristics and
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  traits that they admire in other people, like even me, like I I,
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  you know, in my own life what I what I was before therapy, well,
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  I still kind of am now. I'm getting more and I'm
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  becoming more of who I'm supposed to be right now.
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  What I was before therapy, who I was before therapy, I was a
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  person. That who I was before therapy, I
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  was a person that just took on the personality characteristics
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  and the traits of other people that I that I either liked or I
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  was jealous of. So I was just an accumulation of
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  those personality characteristics and traits and
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  other people that I saw and I liked and I admired.
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  So I'm taking it not only not to be with them, like not even my
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  my partners, Sometimes it can be my friends or people around me.
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  I'm taking their personality characteristics and traits.
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  I'm acting like other people. I would be around.
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  I would want to be around other people to get to act like them
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  so I can kind of mirror them. So narcissists just don't mirror
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  one person. They walk around holding up a
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  mirror to other people, reflecting back what they think
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  they they reflect back where they think other people want to
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  see. And the people closer to that
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  narcissistic person typically find out who they really, really
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  are. They are.
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  You might be the only person that feels like you actually
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  know the narcissist. Like, I'm the only person I feel
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  like that. I know this person.
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  Like I feel like nobody else knows you but me.
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  And that's how it goes sometimes.
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  You might absolutely be the only person who really, truly knows
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  who the narcissistic person is. And that can damn be a day out.
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  Just being realistic, That can be a damn burden that can be
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  extremely burdensome to people around.
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  Like to to people in this situation, they can be extremely
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  they can become an extreme burden to people right there
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  because you feel like you're the only person that knows him.
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  I'm the only person that knows this person or her.
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  You know them. You know what I mean?
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  people. They're like you said, a lot of
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  stuff in this course that I did not know.
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  You said a lot of stuff in this course that I did not know.
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  Lee. So kudos to you.
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