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You're in a good place now. You are listening to
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Perspectives with Ashley Burgess.
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Welcome back live to Literature Life Perspectives, and I'm your host,
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Ashley Burgess. We hear the word narcissism thrown around quite
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a bit, but narcissism isn't all the same. There's not
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just one brand of narcissism. Sure, you have your regular
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brand narcissism, and a lot of people have signs and
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symptoms of being narcissistic. They might not have all the
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signs and symptoms, but they might have a couple. But
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there's a particular type of narcissism that really does stand
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out in the crowd, a particular type of narcissism that
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you might not be aware of that you're dealing with.
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And if you're dealing with this type of narcissism, this
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brand of narcissism, you need to safeguard yourself. This person
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is not just interested in their grandiose the perspective that
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people have about them, the way they see them, how
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they look. There is more going on behind the scenes.
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There is more sinister stuff going on behind the scenes
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that can actually hurt you. And so in today's podcast,
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I'm gonna be talking about malignant narcissist, How to really
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identify a malignant narcissist, because this is very important. We
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have to talk about identification to understand what we're dealing with,
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and that takes some time. We can't just automatically look
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at identification and run into how do we solve it?
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We need to get a clear.
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Concise understanding of what we're dealing with, be able to
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identify it properly so that we can eventually, you know,
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deal with it, you know, respond create those boundaries, you know,
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safeguard ourselves. Whether we have to safeguard ourselves physically or legally,
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or mentally or emotional or both, are all we have
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to really focus on that. And so in today's show,
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we're going to be discussing malignant narcissists and how to
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really understand what we're dealing with, because it really is important.
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Knowledge is power, and if.
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You don't know what you're dealing with, you can't begin
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to safeguard yourself in these situations. And I know that
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many of us know what an overt narcissists and and
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and that's pretty pretty clear. And to the point, there's
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been lots and lots of lots and lots of shows,
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lots and lots of videos on narcissism. You know that
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grandiose self esteem, self of importance that you know, those
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fantasies that they have about you know, success and power,
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and you know they believe they're special and unique. You
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know that constant need for attention and admiration, that sense
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of entitlement even if they haven't done anything to deserve it.
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A tendency to use others people to get what they want,
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very very much of a lack of empathy and unwillingness
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to understand others or to even have or understand the
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feelings of others, being envious of others, and that sense
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of arrogance. And that's all good and well, and that's
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your normal brand of narcissism. But we really need to
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dig deep into what a malignant narcissist is like, because
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many of you may be in a relationship with, in
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a family dynamic with, in a work environment with somebody
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that has malignant narcissistic signs. This person is even more
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unhealthy and toxic than your regular brand of narcissist. It
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makes your regular brand narcissists like a walk in the park.
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It makes them look like the nice guy, the nice girl,
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you know, the person that you want to hang out
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with all the time, which is not the truth. But
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when you put them side by side, you know there's
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one that's going to be all about self. But they're
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not going to be necessarily trying to hurt you. The
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malignant narcissist is. So let's talk about that malignant narcisst
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because you know, in the beginning, a malignant narcissist is
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good usually with the mask, and that's how they get
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in on the relationship, right, That's how it all works out.
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It's not like you go, oh wow, this is a
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milignant narcissist.
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I'm you know, I'm going to take them in, you know,
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oh wow, this is going to be the greatest relationship
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with this malignant narcissist. Oh I'm going to marry this
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malignant narcisis.
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You don't.
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It's not like you're saying that this person has a mask.
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They've worn the mask for a very long time. The
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mask only comes down when you are in a relationship,
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when you're living with them. If you're a family member
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and a lot of you out there might be dealing
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with a family member or brother or sister that might
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be a malignant narcissist. Okay, so let's talk about some
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of this right now. The first thing is, just like
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a regular narcissist, they are preoccupied with the fantasies of
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success and power and beauty and you know, being the
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next model and all this stuff, no matter how old
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they are, no matter what they look like. You know,
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they believe that they are God's gift to creation, so
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everything about them is phenomenal. They cannot handle any type
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of criticism, and so they can dish out. See, the
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thing is as interesting with a narci and a malignant nurses.
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They can dish out, you know, the criticism, and they
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can be very very very mean, very toxic in their
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dishing out of criticism, usually cutting you down the size
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over and over again, you know, putting you in your place,
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that sort of sort of thing.
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But if you are to bring up anything.
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About what they've done, even if it's something as simple
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as you know, oh, hey you didn't take care of
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that today, or hey I thought you were gonna start
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looking for a job. You know, I've been talking about
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that for a few years. Whatever that looks like they
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can't handle it, and they will fight you. They will
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start a huge tantrum. They will take you down on
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something like that and they'll hold.
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It over your head.
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They will lash out no matter what if they feel slighted,
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if they feel at all, like if you don't act
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right when you walk in the door and you say hi,
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but you don't say hi the right way, if you say,
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you know, hey, what's up? Oh Hey, you're gonna you're
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gonna start using the word hey with me. You know
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what kind of what kind of what kind of deal
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is that? If you don't make the proper eye contact, uh,
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they will lash out. They will have an argument about it.
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They are also the types of people that will take
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advantage of other people to get exactly what they want.
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They will use people, They will create elaborate, you know, schemes.
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They will use people to get what they want. And
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it could be a long game too. It doesn't have
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to be short game. A lot of these folks are
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playing a long game, and I mean they're willing to
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go in it for a while.
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You know.
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It's not like the short you know, the short game
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where they're trying to take you for something. They're trying
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to actually take your soul. They're not just trying to
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take some of your money. So you got to understand
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that a lot of these folks are in for the
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long game, and so be careful because in the beginning
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that mask is fully on. They are wearing that mask
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to make sure that you don't see who they are.
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And by the way, once you do find out who
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they are, the outside world for the most part, doesn't
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because they're still playing that game, because then they're gonna
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use that later to make other people feel like if
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you bring it up to other people what they're doing,
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they're gonna try to make you look like you're losing
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your mind. You're going and saying you're the problem, you're
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the issue.
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So remember that.
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And that's the biggest struggle when you're dealing with a
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malignant narcissist is they will try to make you by yourself,
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put you by yourself so that you're in your own
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pain and agony when you do try to reach out
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to other people, making you seem kind of weird, stupid,
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maybe under the influence, maybe you have some sort of
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mental issue yourself, that sort of thing. Now at the
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same time, they're completely overconcerned about their appearance. You know,
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it's the same type of people that'll get dressed up
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to sit around the house.
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You know.
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They they're constantly on Instagram. You'll see folks where it's
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constant posing, you know, constant pictures of just themselves. There's
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nobody else in the pictures, and it's all and sometimes
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scantily clad, that sort of thing in order to get
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your attention. Now, it's interesting because they expect to be
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treated at a higher level than anybody else, and they're
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also looking to other people to get that narcissistic supply.
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So they want other people to validate them. They want
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other people to kiss their ass. They want other people
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to think that they're so great. So in the beginning,
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they're going to play a game with you. In the beginning,
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you are going to think that this person is that great.
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In the beginning, they will create the narrative, and you
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will help create the narrative with them, because they will
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use love bombing to get your attention, you know, to
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act like they are you know God's green, you know
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God's gift to you, that they're gonna help you, They're
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gonna do all these things. In reality, it's not gonna happen,
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but in the beginning, it's gonna feel like it. And
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they're doing all this so they can get their narcissistic
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supply from you, and eventually they don't have to be
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this fake, nice love bombing thing. They're gonna get their
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supply from you in a negative way, But in the beginning,
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they're gonna create this false sense of security with you.
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They're gonna basically create this false sense of acceptance with you,
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So you're gonna tell them all your thoughts and feelings
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and everything about your past, past relationships so that they
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can use this later to basically bombarde you and make
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you feel bad, puts you down, hurts you, and all
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those types of things in an effort to get what
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they want from you, to disparage you, and the list
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goes on.
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So stay tuned.
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We're talking about those signs of a malignant narcissist. Libertrue
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Life Perspectives with your host media Ashley Burgess. We'll be
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back in I'll be back this time in two shakes.
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Turn it up and jump in the deep end on Perspectives.
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Now Here's Ashley.
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Welcome back live to Libertrue Life Perspectives and I'm your
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host Ashley Burgess on today's show, we're examining what makes
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a malignant narcissist. Well, looking at narcissists is very different
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from a regular brand of narcissists. And right before the break,
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I was talking about how they create they want this
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narcissistic supply, and in the beginning, like most narcissists, they
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create this love bombing to get your attention to.
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Be there for you.
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You know, it's almost like you've met this perfect, perfect
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person to be in a relationship with. They're doing all
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these things for you, doting on you, all this stuff,
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and in the same process, they're making you feel so
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comfortable by you opening up and telling them about your
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past relationships or maybe about past marriages or whatever that is.
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And so you're giving them all this information, just feeding
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it to them. As they're remembering all this. They have
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very good memories, not always great memories, but they will
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have a better memory than you, especially in the process of.
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Gaslighting you, and then you won't even know you know,
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your butt from your head.
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So what they're doing is trying to get all that
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concentration of information and the process to eventually use against you.
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And because they don't have a lack of empathy for anybody,
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you know, So they don't care what they're gonna put
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you through. They don't care the pain and suffering. It's
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all about them. Now in the beginning, their mask is
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saying that it's all about you. Oh, they really care
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about you, and you're eating this up because they have
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all this attention for you, and they drop everything to
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be there with you and all this stuff, and so
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in the beginning, it feels really good.
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The beginning never comes back. So I'm telling you straight up.
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Once the beginning is over and the thing starts changing
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and the love bombing goes away, and then the mean
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side of them starts coming out, they don't get nicer,
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they just get meaner, Okay, because remember they don't have
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any empathy. This has always been the long game. So
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with a malignant narcissist, they play the long game to
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disparage you.
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They play the long game.
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To basically you know, I hate to say it, but
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they're trying to take you out at a soul level.
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So they're not playing nice or not playing it. It's
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not like they're going through a bad day or they're
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dealing with PMS. No, they are not playing nice and
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they don't don't even know how to play nights, so
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that's not even part of their operende. So they have
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this insane inflated sense of self. They can't self regulate. Okay,
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So that's the other thing too, is there's no self
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regulation and you have somebody like that. At the same time,
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they have no remorse for hurting others, no remorse, and
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they have no interest in apologizing unless it benefits them.
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Now, if it.