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How do narcissists act when their backs are against the wall · 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 self aware narcissist Mr. Lee Hammock
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  better known as Mental illness across all social media
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  platforms. This is your first time seeing
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  my face and hearing my lovely voice.
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  I'm a clinically diagnosed narcissist and I use my platform
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  on social media to raise awareness for NPD, get more
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  people into therapy by myself and also validate the victims,
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  survivors and thrivers of said disorder, said toxic people said
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  toxic drinks. Today's episode was going to be
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  about how do narcissist act when their backs are against the
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  walls. Like when when all the lies and
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  excuses run out when the threat of exposure is on the horizon.
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  So yeah, before we happen to this episode, y'all know I got
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  But yeah, y'all, how do narcissistic people react when
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  their backs are against the wall?
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  That's going to be tough because there's a few different ways
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  that they can react. One way is that when the threat
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  of exposure is high and the narcissistic person has nowhere
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  else to run or else to hide, they might actually start to
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  become super depressed and retreat retreat within
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  themselves. This is a lot of times when you
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  see narcissistic people. If you're in a relationship with
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  them and they are still trying to avoid accountability, they'll
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  ghost you. They'll give you the silent
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  treatment, they'll start returning your phone calls,
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  they'll do things, they'll they'll do whatever it takes in
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  that scenario without having to voice anything, they'll just
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  disappear on you sometimes. Sometimes they just disappear on
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  you in retreat, hiding, fight or flight.
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  They are flying away. You know what I'm saying?
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  Just in that space right there, just in that very unique
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  dynamic, just in this space, just in that mindset where they
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  have a lot of this type of stuff going on, like they are going
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  through this. Some of them just disappear on
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  you. You know when their backs are
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  against the walls, when they have nothing like all they're
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  still exposed, quiet, silent treatment.
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  I called us. Y'all know if you've been
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  following me for any time period.
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  I called the silent treatment Silent Rage, because they're
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  super angry at you. They're super angry.
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  They're super, they're super angry at you.
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  They're super distraught. Like I said, they they they're
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  so angry that they remove their voices, they remove, they remove
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  the communication. So against their when their
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  backs are against the wall, they, some of them cower, some
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  of them cower, some of them retreat within themselves, some
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  of them retreat overall and disappear.
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  You know what I mean? When there's nothing left, when
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  there's nothing left to say or do, they just they really they,
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  they stop saying and start doing.
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  They disappear, you know, because some of them will
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  absolutely react that way where they dip out on you when their
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  backs are against the wall another way.
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  Another thing that they would do is sometimes when their backs
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  against the wall, just like in a in a boxing ring, they come out
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  swinging. You know, they react, They have
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  these huge wild reactions, you know, to whatever they've been
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  accused of, whatever they've been held accountable for,
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  whatever it is in that space. They have these huge reactions.
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  They do this stuff. They do this huge stuff to mess
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  with you, you know what I mean? They do these things to
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  terrorize you and to mess with your mind and stuff like that
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  and to scare you. Yeah, some of them will come out
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  swinging. This is where the other form of
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  narcissistic toxic rage comes into play.
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  Some of them will absolutely lose.
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  They got damn minds and start yelling and screaming because
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  this is all they have left. When their backs are against the
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  wall, this is all that they have left in this situation, right
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  here, in this scenario, right here.
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  The only thing that they can do is to try to embarrass you or
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  try to hurt you or try to harm you or something along those
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  lines. That's all they got.
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  What else can they do in this situation?
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  What? What else?
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  What? They can't.
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  There's nothing else that they can do.
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  So if if this is all I have, this is all I got, then I'm
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  going to do this right here. You see what I'm saying?
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  If this is all I can do, then I'm going to do this.
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  They're going to rage on it. You're going to yell and
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  screaming at you. They're going to inflate their
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  chest like a damn puffer fish. You know what I'm saying?
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  Puffer fishes, when they get, when you touch, when you try to
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  touch a puffer fish, they just, they just blow up.
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  That's what a lot of narcissistic people do.
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  They just inhale a lot of air, blow up, puff.
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  They turn a little puffer, puffer, narcissist, little
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  puffer, narc, puffer, narc. They turn into that right there.
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  They just yelling and screaming, swinging their arms everywhere
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  like a child, like when their backs are against the wall.
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  You see what I'm saying? And sometimes people, when I say
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  backs against the wall, some people will consider that rock
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  bottom. Everybody reacts to rock bottom
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  differently. Everybody reacts when their
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  backs are against the wall differently, like, but they've
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  lost everything. Their backs, like I said, they
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  could rage out on you, you know, make a rage out of, you know, I
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  think a lot of people think that when you hit rock bottom, like
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  that's when that's when change happens.
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  So for me, when my back, my back was totally against the wall,
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  there's nobody else, nobody else around me to blame and stuff
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  like that. That mitigated that.
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  That prompted me to continue to work on myself.
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  That prompted me to go to therapy and try to understand
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  what was going on the side of my head.
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  That prompted me to do this stuff right here, that it
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  prompted me. You see what I'm saying?
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  It didn't make me change. They made me do anything like
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  that. It just prompted me to go to
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  therapy. Therapy is not a guarantee for
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  change for anybody out. Therapy does not guarantee any
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  type of change. It just doesn't.
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  Therapy is therapy. That's how that's how I describe
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  it. Therapy is therapy.
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  Therapy is what you what you make it make of it you know
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  that's why this how it goes in that space right there.
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  So some narcissistic people when their backs against the wall
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  they this is sometimes this is when they this is when the
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  highest possibility of change happens.
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  Sometimes when their backs against the wall.
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  I said the possibility of change.
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  I didn't say guaranteed change or working themselves to try to
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  be better. I said the possibility exists
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  right here. If there's a less than 1% chance
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  without them hitting rock bottle.
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  I might say there's a 1% chance When they do hit rock bottle.
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  Or when their back is completely against the wall.
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  When you holding them accountable.
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  When you decide to leave. When you decide to break up with
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  them. When you decide to call off the
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  wedding. When you decide to move out of
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  the house. When you decide to pack up and
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  leave your stuff. You see what I'm saying.
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  When you decide to take the kids and up here we decided to go on
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  the run when their backs are against the wall.
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  So I can say if it was less than 1%, it might be a 1% right here.
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  Because even the narcissistic people that I know that have hit
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  this, they had their backs against the wall.
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  That you know they had their backs against the wall that did
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  all this other stuff. They they had their back.
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  Not only did they have their backs against the wall, like
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  they had nothing left to to lose.
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  So, you know, they had nothing left to lose in that space.
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  So then they still didn't change.
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  Some of them might have went to therapy.
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  Some of them got to work out. Some of these people have
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  absolutely gotten worse. What are backs against the wall?
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  They start playing the blame game when they hit rock bottom,
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  even at the bottom of this chasm that they followed into, even at
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  the bottom of this crevasse that they followed into, when their
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  backs are completely against the water, there's nobody else to
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  blame. There's nothing, nobody else to
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  blame. Some of them will still find
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  ways to blame other people. And I know, I know that sounds
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  crazy because sometimes it is crazy.
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  Y'all. No matter what, they still find
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  a way to point their finger at somebody else and to lay the
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  blame at somebody else's feet as opposed to taking it in and
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  internalizing it. And she's like, damn, you know
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  what? This one's on me.
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  You know, they still find a way to blame somebody.
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  If it's not the parents, it's the siblings or the the boss at
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  work is the the spouse, the, you know, the the husband, wife, the
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  fiance, both her girlfriend. It's somebody else.
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  It's my employees, it's my boss. It's you know, it's it's the
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  devil. It's some, it's always good the
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  devil. Yeah.
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  Some people will blame God, you know, but it's always going to
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  be somebody else's fault. Even when their backs are
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  completely pinned against the wall in a in a, their backs are
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  against the wall and they've been thrown to the bottom of
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  bottom of the crevasse, they still will find ways to blame
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  other people. Some people are beyond help.
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  Some people don't want to be helped.
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  A lot of them they and of course they have to want to do it
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  themselves, but a lot of them don't want that.
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  A lot of them are happy being who they are.
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  A lot of them are content with living their life that they are
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  living. A lot of them enjoy living their
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  life this way because it gives them some a sense of purpose, A,
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  you know, it gives them this sense of purpose to be able to
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  do that. So a lot of them like living
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  like this. I know that blows some people's
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  mind because you can't imagine living like that.
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  But some people do. Y'all.
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  Some people like living like this.
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  This is the way that some people live.
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  You know, Like I said, I know some people just like, man,
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  that's crazy, man, that is wild. People think that.
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  What? Yeah.
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  Yeah. Yes, it is a wild mindset they
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  have. It absolutely is.
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  You know, that's why I just tell people like narcissistic people.
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  Just because they hit rock bottom or their backs against
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  the wall doesn't mean that they're going to change.
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  Sometimes they'll still blame you.
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  Sometimes they get angry. Sometimes they get aggressive
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  when their backs against the when their backs are against the
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  wall in this relationship, it means there's another
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  relationship. They leave you, they go find
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  somebody else. When they they don't feel like
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  their back is against the wall. They go find a new job, but they
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  don't feel like they're back is against the wall.
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  They find a new family. They they they transplant
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  themselves into somebody else's family.
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  You you see what I'm saying? If they have a wife and kids
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  over here, they'll go find somebody.
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  They'll find another wife that already has kids.
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  They just already have a ready made family or husband and kids.
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  You know, y'all know women can be narcissist as well.
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  Y'all that's not. Yeah, we are all inclusive
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  toxicity over here. You see what I'm saying?
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  That's what happens. I'm going to say narcissistic
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  people do that. Like some people just retreat.
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  They run very rarely, even when their backs are against the wall
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  where they just like, hey, you know what?
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  This is on me. I got to make the changes
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  necessary for you to feel healthy, For you to feel safe.
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  This right here is on me, honey, and I'm going to do better.
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  You know that right there? Very rarely do you even hear.
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  Would you ever hear something like that come out the mouth of
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  a narcissistic person? Very rarely.
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  When you hear that, you know and I know, people are just like,
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  well, damn it, what What does it get to change them?
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  Yeah, Sometimes even leaving doesn't change them.
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  Sometimes they want you to leave.
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  Sometimes if you leave, you just open the door for them to invite
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  somebody else in to take your place.
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  Yeah, you know, And then I tell people that, right?
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  They'll be like, oh hell no, I don't want to take my place.
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  So you stay in an abusive relationship because you don't
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  want somebody else to take your place and maybe they treat them
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  better. You see what I'm saying?
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  That's the space. That's the space that a lot of
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  people fall into right there. Y'all.
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  That's absolutely the space that a lot of narcissistic people
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  fall into. So you have to be safe.
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  You have to be as safe and as strong as you possibly can.
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  Y'all I'm just telling you, this is the mindset of a lot of
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  narcissists. It just, it does.
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  This is the way it works. Y'all, it absolutely is like
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  when their backs against the wall.
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  They might need a silent treatment, they might retreat,
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  they might find somebody else. They very rarely will go to
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  therapy, make any kind of changes.
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  But like I said, rock bottom doesn't affect everybody the
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  same way. Some people don't have a rock
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  bottom and it's those that do it just it's it's it's sad.
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