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What is NARC season? Why do narcisissts act so weird between October and January? · The Mental Healness Podcast

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  What is going on, beautiful people?
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  Welcome to another episode of the Narcissist Code.
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  I'm your favorite selfaware narcissist, Mr. Lee Hammock,
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  better known as mental illness across all social media
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  platforms. This is the first time seeing my
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  face or hearing my lovely voice. I'm a clinically diagnosed
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  narcissist and I use my platform on social media to raise words
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  for NPD, get more people into therapy like myself and also
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  validate the victims, survivors and thrivers of said disorder,
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  said toxic people said toxic traits.
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  Today's episode y'all is going to be about narc season, while a
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  lot of narcissistic people start behaving differently between
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  like September, October, November, December, January,
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  those months right there like the end of the year, like
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  towards the end of the year into the beginning of the next year.
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  That's why a lot of people call it narc season.
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  It's like a hot, yeah, dark season.
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  Narcissistic people start acting up around October, November,
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  December, January, February. There are no times right there
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  and a lot of people asking me why.
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  So before we hop into today's episode y'all y'all know you
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  relationship and spot and what not.
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  But yes y'all yeah narc season. What is like I said narc season.
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  Y'all is that time near the end of the year, towards the
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  beginning of next year? Well, a lot of narcissistic
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  people start the kind of like the mask comes off, you know
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  what I mean? I know the mask goes on for a
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  lot of people around Halloween, but for narcissistic people,
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  it's like they become unraveled. Like a lot of us don't know how
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  to act, don't know how to behave.
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  It's like we start acting differently around this time of
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  the year. And a lot of people are like,
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  why is that? Yeah, it's a holiday season,
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  just like for me. And this is just my perspective.
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  Y'all, y'all know I could I be wrong?
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  Absolutely, yes. But I don't know.
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  I don't know. But I don't know if I am, you
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  know what I mean? It's just like this time of the
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  year, there's so many emotions going around, right?
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  Like it's so it's so it's it's like a overload of holidays.
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  It's an overload of emotional energies and overload of giving
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  and receiving. It's an overload of all of that
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  stuff. You see what I'm saying?
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  The rest of the year, March, April, May, June, July, you
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  know, August, September. There's not really any, you
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  know, holidays like that, You know what I mean?
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  Think about it. January, literally there's not
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  very many holidays around the time period.
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  Like, I mean, I know there's national holidays, but there's
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  like, I guess, you know, there's not really holidays.
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  It might be birthdays or something like that.
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  But the end of the year, it's kind of like all the holidays
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  are back-to-back to back-to-back to back.
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  Because think about it, October you got a Halloween, November
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  you got Thanksgiving, December you got Christmas.
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  And then December to January you got New Year's and New Year's
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  Day, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
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  And if ever you got Valentine's Day, all these holidays are
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  back-to-back to back-to-back to back.
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  It's overwhelming for a lot of narcissist, for a lot of people
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  in general. I know, for a lot of people I
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  know, it's just not Narciss. And being overwhelmed during
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  this time period doesn't necessarily mean that you're a
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  narcissist job, but the intent matters.
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  It's like if you be over. Being overwhelmed and stressed
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  out is different than being overwhelmed, stressed out, and
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  trying to ruin everybody else's time.
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  You said, I'm saying trying to center yourself in this time
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  period and whatnot because a lot of narcissists will absolutely
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  center themselves during this time.
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  Like I'm telling you, October, here comes Halloween, family
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  gatherings, family getting together, putting on costumes,
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  masks, organizing, you know where we're going, is there a
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  booze cart? Whatever the situation has got
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  to get the kids together. You know, if you Co parent with
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  them, it's just yeah, it's just stressful.
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  The narcissist mind, It's like, no, there's no stasis, you know?
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  I mean, there's no point of stasis where we could just be
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  Zen or whatnot. It's always something.
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  So right after Halloween comes when you're supposed to put on a
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  happy face and go trick or treating for host parties and
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  things like that. Right after that time period
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  comes, here comes November, Thanksgiving.
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  More travel, more family and friends, more food, more giving
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  thanks and being grateful and stuff like that.
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  It's just so much emotional energy going around this time.
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  It's like it. Oh, it's overloads my
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  narcissistic emotional senses. You see what I'm saying?
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  I'm overloaded and I'm overwhelmed during this time
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  period. You know what I mean?
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  That's why a lot of narcissistic people will try to ruin your
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  holidays. Y'all Thanksgiving.
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  They might knock all the food off the table.
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  They might sit downstairs or upstairs the whole time.
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  They might not show up at all. They might show up late.
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  They might be, they might be giving you the silent treatment.
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  They might scream and yell at you before everybody else
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  arrives. They might be sending you dog
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  whistles and trying to covertly trigger you doing the get, doing
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  the get together by saying little sneaky slot stuff about
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  you. And to you, there's a lot of
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  different things that a narcissistic person can do
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  during this time. Y'all and some of the a lot of
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  them do it. A lot of them do it.
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  Like I said, Thanksgiving, I'll get together.
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  I got to show people I'm loving and tell them I'm grateful for.
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  It's too much for a lot of narcissistic people.
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  So after Thanksgiving, you might get like a little period where
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  they're they're cool. But then guess what?
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  Here comes Christmas time to give and receive all this other
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  stuff they have. Yeah, so many narcissists ruin
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  Christmas, so many of them. So it is crazy how many
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  narcissistic people ruin Christmas.
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  It is absolutely insane. You see what I'm saying?
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  Yes. Could that.
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  Could that narcissistic person or the narcissist, could they
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  have had some holiday trauma or could they have been neglected
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  during their childhood and their youth growing up around the
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  holiday season? Yes, Absolutely.
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  Yes. Yeah.
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  But is there a reason to continuously ruin it for
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  everybody else you do. Do you want to continue to
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  perpetuate the cycle of abuse and holiday trauma or do you
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  want to put an end to it? You see what I'm saying?
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  Because a lot of times people, narcissistic people continue to
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  perpetuate the trauma. They keep the trauma, they keep
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  the cycle that they keep the ball of trauma or the cycle of
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  trauma rolling. They keep it rolling and
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  whatnot. So it happens, it keeps, it
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  happens consistently, it happens so much y'all it absolutely
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  does. It's one of those things that
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  continuously, consistently happens to a lot of people.
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  It just does like Thanksgiving Christmas.
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  Like yeah, I'm telling you, they might not get you a gift.
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  They might get you a shoe rack, They might get you a clothes
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  hanger, They might get you some BS, they might get you some, oh
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  they might get a lot. They might do a lot of damage to
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  you during this time. They might not even show up.
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  They might scream and yell at the kids if you're trying to Co
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  parent with them. They might not bring the kids
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  back on time. They might not come pick up the
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  kids, they might not call the kids.
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  You said there's so many things that they can do to ruin this
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  holiday season because there's so much emotional energy flowing
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  and they can't handle it if they overlook like, so this is my
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  true belief right here, my true belief that a lot of narcissists
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  have limited emotional capacity, right.
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  A lot of narcissists have. We don't have a, we have
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  emotions. We just don't have enough, a lot
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  of room for everybody else's. You see what I'm saying?
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  We our system can be overloaded very easily.
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  Dealing with everybody's problems and being fake happy.
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  And a lot of narcissists will consider holiday season fake and
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  commercialized and stuff like that.
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  Know like you want to know how Christmas.
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  You don't know if if somebody really cares about you on
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  Christmas. Don't get them a gift.
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  I didn't get you a gift because I wanted.
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  I didn't get you a gift because I wanted to see if you really
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  cared about me. You know what I mean?
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  That's why I didn't give you a gift.
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  Because that's why Christmas is fake.
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  I ain't doing Christmas. You know what I'm saying?
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  They will ruin your holiday to test you, but they didn't plan
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  on get you and getting you a gift anyway.
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  You could have been, you could have been super happy about them
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  not getting you a gift and they would still get made an argument
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  out of it. You know what I'm saying?
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  Like, yeah, it's hard to win around the holiday season and
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  then you follow up Christmas Eve and Christmas.
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  You don't even get a break then because here comes the new year,
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  New year, New me, New year, new narcissist.
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  Or this new year, the same narcissistic person.
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  You see what I'm saying? It's so it's so much going on.
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  It's so it's such a mental game. It's such a mental flow and it
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  can lead to a lot of mental destruction.
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  We're dealing with narcissistic people in this circumstance
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  right here. If you think about it, you know,
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  if you think about a lot of the stuff that goes on in these
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  spaces, it could lead to a lot of damage, a lot of harm being
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  done to your family. They they can be passing on the
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  generational holiday trauma to not only you.
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  It gets to the point where you yourself don't want to celebrate
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  the holidays because you know what's going on.
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  You know, you know, narc season is coming up or and it can pass
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  down to your children. So imagine your children growing
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  up and having the same or very similar holiday trauma.
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  You see what I'm saying? It can happen to a lot of
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  people. Y'all and it happens to a lot of
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  people. And if I keep telling people
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  over and over again, this is the this is how it's going to go,
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  y'all this is how it's going to go.
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  This is the process, this is the dynamic, this is what you're
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  going to get. This is what you're going to
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  encounter when you're dealing with a narcissist or a toxic
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  person during this time period. New year, new holiday season,
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  New year. And like I said, you might get a
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  short break after New Year. Y'all.
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  You might get a short interlude after New Year's, right?
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  But guess what's coming up next? If you're in a relationship
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  Valentine's Day now, this Valentine's Day might not be as
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  bad for you if you if the narcissist is your parent.
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  Or it could be if you have a narcissistic parent.
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  The Valentine's Day might not be as bad for you.
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  Narc season might end in January for you.
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  You might get a reprieve, You know what I mean?
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  It's kind of like being a teacher.
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  You know how teachers work 10 months of the year?
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  I don't know. You know, teachers get the
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  summer off. Most teachers, some of them
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  choose to work and do other stuff, But a lot of teachers get
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  the summer off, right? It's kind of like that right
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  there. You get the you get you get an
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  early break right there, You know, because if you have a
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  single parent or whatever, Valentine's Day might not be as
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  bad for you if the narcissist in your life is your parent.
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  But if the narcissistic person in your life is a significant
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  other Valentine's Day makes my stomach hurt banging about it.
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  You know what I mean? Because they're going to try to
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  ruin your day. Y'all.
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  And I just this is, this is going to continuously happen.
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  You're in and you're out, and I'm telling people that I'm not
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  telling you to leave your relationship.
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  Y'all. I'm just saying stop trying to
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  convince yourself that next year is going to be different.
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  If you've been with this person for 10 years and you had 10 bad
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  narc seasons, why you think #11 is going to be different?
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  Why are you doing the same thing, the same actions 11 years
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  in thinking it's going to be different?
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  What are you telling yourself to make you think it's going to be
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  different? The narcissists say it's going
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  to be different and continue to do.
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  Then they continue to do the same thing over and over and
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  over again. Did they say it's going to be
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  different? What are you telling yourself to
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  make you think this is going to be different?
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  You know, because that matters. You know, that matters.
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  That was just telling people, so leave.
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  What do we do then? What do we do during narc
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  season? Y'all.
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  If you can celebrate without the person, I would celebrate
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  without the person. Me personally, or I wouldn't try
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  to go all out knowing that they're going to ruin it, you
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  know? Because sooner or later if you
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  start having people over for Thanksgiving and that
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  narcissistic person is just causing drama every
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  Thanksgiving, people are going to stop coming to your house
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  anyway because they don't want to deal with it, you know.
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  So they might success. The narcissist might
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  successfully Dr. People away from even wanting to deal with
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  y'all during holiday season because they are a ton to deal
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  with. Oh, and I'm not going trick or
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  treat with Lee and them leave me acting crazy.
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  You see what I'm saying? I'm not going.
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  Hey, I'm definitely not going to Lee's house on Thanksgiving.
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  They just, it's so uncomfortable.
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  They make it so uncomfortable. Christmas.
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  Oh, I'm not going to my dad Lee's house because he just
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  causes so much ruckus on Christmas and always arguing
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  with mom and his brother and his everybody else.
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  New Year's, all hell, I ain't going around them.
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  Valentine's Day. I do not.
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  I'm staying away on Valentine's Day.
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  I don't expect the gift on Valentine's Day.
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  You see what I'm saying? It just continues to go on and
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  on and on. You know, it just get It does
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  not get better over time either. Y'all.
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  Unless that narcissistic person is somehow some way, shape or
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  form put it in a ton of work on themselves, maybe.
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  But otherwise, this is who you're going to be dealing with.
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  Y'all. Don't.
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  Don't try to convince yourself otherwise because that just
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  keeps you in these types of relationship spaces longer.
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