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When narcissists have selective amnesia · 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 I see my
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  face or hear my lovely voice. I'm a clinically diagnosed
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  narcissist and I use my platform on social media to raise
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  awareness for NPD, get more people into therapy like myself,
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  and also validate the victim, survivors and thrivers of said
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  disorder, said toxic people said toxic traits.
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  Today's episode is going to be about selective amnesia of
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  narcissistic people. How narcissistic people always
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  seem to forget things that would help you hold them accountable.
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  They always seem to forget things that can be used against
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  them in situations like that. You know what I mean?
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  So there you go, right there. So before having today's
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  I do. But yeah yeah, narcissist and
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  select selective amnesia. So, so, so first of all, y'all a
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  lot of narcissists are like elephants.
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  Narcissists don't forget things that are important to them,
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  things that can service them, things that can help us out in
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  the long run or in the short run whenever the timing is.
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  Narcissist don't forget things that can be used for their own
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  benefit, like things that I could like I don't forget things
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  that you tell me that I can use against you later on.
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  I don't forget things that you tell me that I know can Get Me
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  Out of something later on. I don't forget that type of
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  stuff. Y'all.
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  I don't forget things that you tell me that I could use to my
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  benefit. But you get a lot of
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  narcissistic people. Y'all they gas like the hell out
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  of you and just claim to not remember saying something or
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  doing something and things like that.
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  You know, they can't seem that they always remember something
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  that you did. They can remember something that
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  you did. The time date, the the alignment
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  of the moon, what phase, what phase the moon was in and
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  whatnot is a Crest. It was a Crescent, Crescent
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  moon. And it was July 31st.
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  And you remember it was 8:39 PM. I remember.
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  I remember directly. You remember you said this to
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  me? What about that?
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  They can remember that stuff, but when it comes to remembering
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  things that to their detriment, they don't seem to remember that
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  type of stuff. Do that.
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  Like I said, it's called selective amnesia or just
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  gaslighting. Y'all.
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  I call it selective amnesia. I think a lot of other people
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  refer to it as selective amnesia as well, but they just all of a
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  sudden cannot remember saying something evil to you.
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  They can't remember saying bringing up and weaponizing your
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  trauma against you. They can't remember, like they
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  can't feel the life of them remember.
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  They wouldn't do something like that.
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  You know what I mean? They they just wouldn't.
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  You see, they just wouldn't do that.
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  That's the mindset, that's the dynamic, that's the space.
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  Like that's it right there. I'm just telling you that's the
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  way it goes. We are dealing with a lot of
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  narcissistic people. That's the mindset of it all and
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  that's why I keep telling people over and over again like this is
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  what happens. Y'all this is the dynamic.
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  Like they don't they they remember most of the kids.
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  So can a narcissist, can something slip a narcissist mind
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  that they did? Yeah.
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  Let's be let's be real. Narcissists are humans.
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  People too. Like we might actually forget
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  something that we did two, 2-3 years ago, you know what I mean?
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  But if some if it's something in the moment, they don't forget
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  that type of stuff. Y'all, I promise you.
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  They know they did it. They just in denial.
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  So have I forgotten stuff? Yeah, I've forgotten that I said
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  stuff and done stuff. A while back I I said that I did
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  that. Hey, really.
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  I don't remember that, you know, But in the moment, like right
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  here, right now. I know.
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  I said I know I did it, you know, I know that.
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  But I don't want admitting it to you doesn't serve me.
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  You mean admitting it to you doesn't serve me.
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  You know, it just, that's what happened right there.
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  You know, admitting this to you does not serve me.
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  It actually doesn't. It actually helps you.
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  And I don't want to do anything that helps you.
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  I need to help myself. I need to protect myself.
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  I need to guard myself against shame and hurt and pain and
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  stuff like that. So in this situation, what I do
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  is I just put it on to you. I just claim to forget.
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  I claim to forget. But again, y'all again.
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  I claim to forget. Like I said, you know, I can
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  claim to forget anything out that doesn't serve me.
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  Oh, I can always claim to say I don't remember that.
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  I didn't say that. I didn't do that.
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  You did that. You said that, you did that.
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  You said that I can always put it onto someone else, right?
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  I can always just claim to forget.
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  But in the moment, if I need, if I need that memory, if that
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  memory serves me, that's what happens right there.
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  Y'all that's what. If I need this memory and it
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  serves me, I'm going to use it. It's going to serve me right
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  now. If I need this memory and it and
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  it benefits me right now. If I'm going to use it, I'm
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  going to. If I need it for five years ago,
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  I need it. If it doesn't serve me from 5
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  minutes. If it doesn't serve me from 5
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  minutes ago. I forgot.
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  I didn't say that. That's why I tell people like
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  Willie we know Narciss have selective amnesia.
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  We know this. I know they're gaslighting me
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  over time. Y'all they might actually
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  convince you that they have issue they they have.
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  Like, they might actually convince you that they have
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  memory issues and whatnot, you know, the group 920 or or the
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  sorry. They might actually convince you
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  over time that they have memory issues that their mind goes
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  blank or something like that. But that's not the truth.
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  You all they narcissistic people are going to say and do things
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  that benefit them. They just keep it.
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  Let let's just keep it hot and ready.
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  Like a Little Caesar's pieces. They just are.
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  You know, Billy, how do we guard ourselves against this?
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  We know. We know they have to select
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  them, need you. We know that they're lying.
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  We know that they're trying to manipulate it.
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  So how do we guard against this? The best way to guard against
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  this type of stuff y'all is literally, you know what I mean?
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  It's it's literally by recording situation like that, I'm not
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  telling you to record stuff to use in court because I don't
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  know if it's legal and where you are.
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  I'm telling you because some parts, some states or two party
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  states where both, both people need to know that they're being
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  recorded. But some states or one party
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  say, well I only need to know I'm recording you, you know, so
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  I can record you regardless of what state you I can record you.
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  Just some states. I can't use it against you or it
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  might be illegal. Check your law.
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  That's not legal advice. Check your state laws.
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  But sometimes you just recording this to help maintain your
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  memory, to help maintain your sanity, to help help you
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  understand that this person is to show you who they really are.
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  That this person is lying to you and trying to manipulate you.
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  Like if you're arguing with this person and they say the let's
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  say your mom has passed away and you're arguing with this person
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  and they bring up your mom passing away.
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  Unless your mom died. Your mom just so your momma she
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  you, you you called your momma to die.
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  You did this to your mom. You said this to your mom.
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  You made your mom want to get up, get on about it here.
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  You stressed her out, blah blah blah.
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  She was so disappointed in you that she just, she lost years of
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  her life being worried about and disappointed in you.
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  Then 5 minutes later, I didn't say that.
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  I would never say that about your mom.
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  You can hit that record you don't like.
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  Okay. You always use this, always use
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  discretion. Y'all because sometimes you
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  don't want to hit this recording in front of them, right?
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  You don't want to play this recording in front of them.
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  You don't want to play it in front of them because they might
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  snap on you. And then like if you play a
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  recording in front of them, they might get angry at the fact that
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  you're recording them, not, you know, they not they like they'll
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  get angry at the fact that you don't trust your own.
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  You don't even trust your own memory enough.
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  You don't even trust your own memory enough to against me to
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  to stand to stand on you, to stand on your own 2 feet.
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  You don't even trust yourself like this.
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  Why would I trust you? Why would I believe you?
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  You know what I mean? You get a lot of narcissistic
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  people who think like that, Who, who, whose mindset goes into
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  that and goes in that direction. What they feel like you don't
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  trust. Like they they they they'll make
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  you seem like an invasion of privacy that you decided to
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  record. The recordings are for you.
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  The recordings are for you. Writing this now.
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  Journaling this stuff is for you.
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  Journalist like today. My narcissistic partner or my
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  narcissistic mom or my narcissistic dad.
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  My narcissistic parent. My narcissistic best friend, My
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  narcissistic boss. Whoever the narcissistic person
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  in your life is, write it down. Say they said this at this time.
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  This because this is for you. This is for your memory.
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  This is to help you maintain and fight against gaslighting.
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  Because their selective amnesia can confuse the hell out of you.
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  Because you might actually think you're going.
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  You might actually think you might actually start to believe
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  that they have memory issues and you're just being you're just
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  badgering them. Or you they might convince you
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  that you're just wrong. They didn't say that, even
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  though they did, even though you know they did.
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  That's what gas lighting comes into play out.
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  It makes you question your own reality.
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  It makes you question the truth. It makes you question.
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  Am I telling myself the truth? Is this actual, is this actually
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  factual? Right here?
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  You know, did they really say this?
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  You know, did I misheard them? Did I say that?
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  Did, Did I? Am I lying?
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  Am I being manipulative? Am I the nurses?
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  You said all this stuff can be prevented if you just start
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  recording these conversations to protect yourself, recording
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  these situations to protect yourself.
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  You know what I mean? Again, I'm not saying to use
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  this online or to just go out here and start a, you know, just
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  start. I'm just saying this is to
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  protect you against the selective amnesia.
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  Because narcissists are conveniently going to forget
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  things that don't serve them in the moment.
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  They're conveniently going to misremember things or misquote
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  stuff that doesn't serve them in the moment.
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  You know, their selective amnesia will absolutely have
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  them gaslight in the hell out of you.
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  Because doing yeah. So doing these selective amnesia
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  moments, they can actually start making up new memories when they
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  are, when they are telling you that they don't, they don't
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  remember saying this or doing this.
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  They can start to create new memories, they can start to
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  alter history. They can start to reshape the
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  actual situation to benefit them.
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  Because if I don't remember saying that, I must have said
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  something or you must have heard this.
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  I remember I said this. You must have heard this because
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  you're crazy. You have a bad memory.
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  You you have horrible judgment. So we're going to trust my words
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  right here. I didn't say that I said this.
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  You something that they can gas like the hell out of you and
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  just start creating a new past. You something that, But again,
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  y'all they can remember something from 17 years ago when
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  you before that you told them you dated somebody before you
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  met them 17 years ago. They they they remember where
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  they were when you said that, but they can't remember
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  something. They said that you two beds ago
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  because it hurt. They felt because it it allowed.
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  It might allow them to hold you accountable.
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  You see what I'm saying? It might allow yourself to hold
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  you accountable. It might allow them to hold you
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  accountable. It might allow them some truth
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  and some reprieve. Might allow them some time to
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  heal. You don't learn that's that's a
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  lot of space to go into y'all. So they some of these to do
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  narcissists forget stuff sometimes like normal human
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  beings do, yeah, but sometimes they have this selective memory
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  issues, selective amnesia when it doesn't serve them y'all.
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