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So if you grew up with a covert narcissist mom,
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So if you grew up with a covert narcissist mom,
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I just want to say I think this is one of the most difficult situations.
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It's one of the most difficult ways to grow up and I'm going to talk in this video about why,
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what impact this had on you or if you're watching this for a loved one,
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what impact this had on them because knowing this,
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knowing the traits of a covert narcissist mom,
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knowing what impact it had on you can really help you know where to focus to heal
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and move forward in your life, which is super important.
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So when you grow up with a covert narcissist mom,
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she probably competed with you a lot,
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minimized your needs, blamed you if ever anything went wrong,
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and you probably felt guilty a lot.
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But the impact really does go beyond that.
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So I'm going to uncover the six traits of a covert narcissist's mom and what impact those had on you.
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So I do have a video which outlines the difference between a covert narcissist and an overt,
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but basically a covert narcissist is hidden, right?
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It's like, it's not super obvious.
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So if your mom was a covert narcissist,
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this leaves you in a pretty isolating place because you might be aware of it,
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but nobody else is, right?
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So that covert nature makes it very,
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very difficult to work with.
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And it also leaves you question yourself even beyond how you might feel if you were with an overt narcissist.
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Now, I've seen the phenomena of a covert narcissist mom manifest in many ways.
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I worked with tons of people in my psychotherapy practice who grew up with a mom with these traits.
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And what I began to
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realize is that very often the covert narcissist mom chooses one child in particular to be her supply, right?
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Like, so when you think about narcissism,
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the narcissist always needs a supply of attention.
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So the narcissist needs this admiration and they look for people who will supply it.
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So the covert narcissist mom often chooses possibly the most empathetic of the children to be her main supply.
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So the behavior with that child in particular is way more extreme than anything else that's manifested,
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which is why other family members may not be aware of it.
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And the other issue that I've seen is that the partner of the covert narcissist mom sometimes buys into the whole story.
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So the father, for example,
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might be like, your mom is the best mom in the world
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and completely deny any of the subtle and damaging behaviors that the covert narcissist is doing.
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And other times the partner of the covert narcissist is just so beaten down themselves,
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there's no way they would ever stand up and confront the narcissist.
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All of that really contributes to making this a incredibly toxic environment to grow up in.
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All right, so one of the overwhelming
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and most obvious traits of the covert narcissist mom is that they play the victim and the martyr ad nauseum.
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I did this for you.
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I sacrificed myself for you.
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I'm the most wonderful mom because I've done nothing but care for you.
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And meanwhile, they're sabotaging you in other ways,
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but the storyline, the theme.
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So one example is I had a client whose mom would periodically give her a gift,
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wrapped even, of diet pills,
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which is so insidiously damaging for so many reasons.
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But if my client ever complained about it to anybody,
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the people in her family anyway would be,
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mom just cares for you.
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She just wants you to look good so you can be happy
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because they've bought into the entire narrative of the covert narcissist.
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And as I talked about in one of my other videos on this,
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covert narcissists tend to pay a lot of attention to appearance.
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So giving you a gift,
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a wrapped gift of diet pills.
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Hmm.
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I'm just being nice.
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I'm just trying to help you.
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I just want you to be happy.
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I want, you know, people to fall in love with you.
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I want you to be your best self.
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I'm just being nice.
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Why are you so angry at me for giving you a gift?
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That's the covert narcissist mom.
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Another client of mine, he was dragged to department store after department store after department store from about,
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I don't know, the age of say six to 10.
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Hours and hours of shopping,
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a lot of which was shopping for him and buying him clothes,
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which he didn't care about.
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But how could you complain about that?
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I just spent $400 on you.
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So this sort of insidious way of doing things for you that really aren't for you in any way,
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they're for the narcissist and even for this client who was dread shopping by his mom.
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She wanted him to look good.
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She wanted him to look a certain way because when you have a narcissistic parent,
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They view you as an extension of them.
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So how you dress is a reflection of them.
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And since you're an extension of them,
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they can control you so they can have you wear what they want you to wear.
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So a bit of an aside there,
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but it kind of all goes together here, right?
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Treat number two, they never admit wrongdoing.
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Now, this is common to all narcissists, right?
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Narcissists do not take responsibility for any of the problems in a relationship.
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Not their fault.
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You're the problem.
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So anytime there is conflict, you are blamed.
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And if you grow up with a mom who is blaming you for any conflict,
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even say blaming you for being upset for this underhanded gift that you didn't want,
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you are ungrateful.
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You are the one who's the problem.
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And this whole messaging is so confusing to kids, right?
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Because kids from the age of say three to nine tend to idolize their parents,
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tend to believe everything their parents tell them so
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if you have a parent who's saying i do everything for
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you all of this i'm doing is only for you why aren't you grateful for it you internalize
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that as you know there's something wrong with me
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that i'm not grateful for this and then as you get a little bit older
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and more into those more rebellious years you begin to rebel against it
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but that's not a great place to be either which we'll come to later all right Trait number three,
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the covert narcissist is preoccupied with the image they project into the world.
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They want to project into whatever social circles they're in,
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into any external environment, a perfect mom image.
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They are just the perfect mom.
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And if you don't support that, you're the ungrateful child.
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And most covert narcissist moms might have one child who's going along with everything,
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being good, doing everything the mom wants.
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So see, I'm a good mom because I have this good child who's doing everything I want.
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And that other one who's rebelling is a bad child.
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Not my fault, right?
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It's all tying together.
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But projecting the image of being the perfect mom,
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having the perfect family as much as possible,
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very preoccupied with the external image.
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So again, as a child,
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this is super confusing because particularly in those younger years,
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you believe what your parents say and you're watching your mom pretend
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or say things in public that contradict what she says in private.
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Just very confusing for a child.
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Number four, a covert narcissist mom can be vindictive and cruel if anybody goes against her.
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So you learn young not to, right? until maybe you hit those rebellious years.
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But even then, if you're rebelling against a covert narcissist mom,
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whoa, you are up against somebody who is very skilled at belittling others,
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making other people feel horrible,
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and meanwhile projecting this image of being so wonderful to everybody else so it really becomes isolating.
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For example, the client who I mentioned with regard to the diet pills felt incredibly isolated in her family
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because the mother would actually go to the father and be like,
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she's so hard for me to deal with.
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I just, I really try.
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I try everything.
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I try everything to relate to her and to help her.
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And she just pushes me away.
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And it's this whole story.
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And then if you in any way confront her and are like directly rebellious,
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the vindictiveness and backhandedness can get really, really damaging and intense.
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Part of this vindictiveness is that the covert narcissist also tends to hold resentments forever and will never drop a point.
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So another person that I worked with who had a covert narcissist mom who was very,
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very involved in her church and her religion,
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and she wanted all of her children to stay in that church and that religion and be dedicated.
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And this client of mine had chosen a different path.
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So every Christmas holiday, when that client would go home,
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their siblings would get tons of different gifts,
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tons of different types of gifts.
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They would get one gift,
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a Bible, year after year after year.
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The covert narcissist mom never varied.
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And in working with that client,
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it was like, okay, we have to understand this is coming from a narcissist.
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She almost can't think differently.
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So it is horrible.
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But learning that this is not really about you.
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It's really not about you.
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And no, your father is not going to jump in here and change the situation.
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Why?
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Because she'll be vindictive to him and he already knows that he can't stand up to her.
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Your siblings will support her.
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Everybody will support her.
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Given that scenario, what do you choose, right?
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There's really a need here.
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I'm getting into a little bit of like,
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what do you do about this, right?
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But there's really a need here to empower yourself,
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to make choices and make your decisions,
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understanding that that situation is unlikely to change and developing your self-esteem separate from that mom and separate from that family system.
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Number five, narcissists tend to be pathological liars.
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They can lie to you and in a way where they're completely convincing and you get very confused
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and covert narcissist moms are no different.
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Their lies tend to be things that make them look good and you look bad or somebody else look bad.
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Almost always.
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I mean, you can sort of go through it.
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When you become aware of how much your narcissistic parent lies,
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you will begin to see
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that all of those lies are about protecting my image of being wonderful and putting somebody else down.
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Because a narcissist can't feel good about themselves unless they're above like they can't you know feel okay
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if somebody else seems to have the upper hand
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so they always have to create a scenario
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and again as a child i mean this just sort of
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undermines your trust in the world it undermines your trust in other people
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because you realize like wow i can't really tell if somebody's lying
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or not and And then you're also always doubting yourself because you'll have a different recollection of events.
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And the narcissist will be totally convincing that what they remember is accurate.
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And you're just like, oof,
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I must be going nuts here.
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And if you're a child,
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you will believe what your parent says.
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That's just a really important thing to weave in here is that children,
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let's say we're talking ages three to nine, okay? they don't have the cognitive capacity to separate from the event
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and really observe what's happening.
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Children just naturally believe what a parent says.
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So if that parent is contradicting your reality,
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you go with what the parent says.
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You think you're wrong.
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So you do end up feeling like you're at fault in a situation if the narcissist parent is blaming you.
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Feeling guilty if the narcissistic parent is telling you you don't do enough for them feeling bad about yourself
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because your needs are not paid attention to.
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So really understanding that when these things were impacting you,
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you had a child's brain,
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which was perfect for a child, right?
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But it didn't have the full executive functioning that we develop later in life.
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In fact, it keeps developing until we're about 25 years old.
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So all of our cognitive reasoning capabilities kick in later,
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we are largely driven by emotion and sensory experience as children and our parents are the world.
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So that understanding that and having compassion for yourself is a key piece of this.
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Trait number six, the narcissistic parent will demand assurance and admiration from their children,
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in particular, this one that they've identified as their supply.
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And sometimes it's all the kids,
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but sometimes it's really targeted to just one or two of them.
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And often here, the manipulation is that if you don't make me feel good about myself,
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I get so depressed, I can't cope,
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I cry, I go to bed, I withdraw.
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Oh, poor me, you're not being nice to mom.
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And again, this theme could be echoed by other family members because particularly smart,
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covert narcissists can really figure out how to manipulate tons of people.
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So you grow up feeling that it's your job to take care of mom's feelings,
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your job to make mom feel good about herself.
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That's your job.
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Your needs don't matter.
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Your wants don't matter.
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And honestly, this is also a Sisyphean task because you can't actually make somebody else feel good about themselves.
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Self-esteem comes from inside and your covert narcissist mom did not have that.
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Even though you think of a narcissist as having a lot of self-esteem,
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that's actually not true.
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They don't, which is why they are so desperate to get it from others.
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And it truly is impossible to continually make somebody feel good about themselves,
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which means you also end up feeling I'm not good enough
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because you can never accomplish the task that is so clearly yours.
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It is so clearly your task to take care of mom and you're not doing it well.
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So these all come into being negative core beliefs that we grow up feeling I'm not good enough.
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My needs don't matter.
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I'm not as important as other people.
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It's more important to caretake for others.
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And so I do have a free PDF on identifying the negative core beliefs.
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I think it could be super helpful for you.
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Because if you grew up with a covert narcissist mom,
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you definitely developed negative beliefs about yourself that stick with you until you get to an age where you're like,
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okay, I'm going to put the work in here.
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I'm going to tackle this.
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So the PDF helps to identify what those are,
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helps you understand how to rewire it,
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gives you three techniques, change them into positive core beliefs.
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But let me go back for a second because this is also training to become a people pleaser.
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And you know, it's interesting because sometimes a covert narcissist mom will appear to be a people pleaser.
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She might even say she is a people pleaser.
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And And what she means by that is she will say things to other people
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that make them think well about her, right?
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So there is sort of a narcissistic people pleasing, right?
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It's like, I'm gonna say the right thing so this person likes me,
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but she does it in a way where it's really just totally about her.
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It's really not about pleasing the other person.
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And she's probably, meanwhile,
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training her children to be true people pleasers where their focus
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is on pleasing others taking care of others needs desires wants emotions
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and not their own all right
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so this is a difficult topic do let me know what you think let me comment below let me know
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if this was useful not useful what hits home what doesn't
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if you think i've missed something let me know i do try to read all my comments
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and i try to respond back but i also just want to reiterate
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that if you grew up with a covert narcissist mom,
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it is growing up in a traumatic environment.
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So many clients that I've had will say,
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well, I didn't really have trauma growing up.
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I wasn't hit.
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I wasn't physically abused.
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But emotionally, they were neglected and manipulated.
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And it was not recognized by other caregivers,
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other family members, or even by themselves.
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So it is actually growing up in an abusive environment
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and it does take work and healing to rewire the feelings that you have about yourself and others,
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but it can be done.
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You can do this.
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All right.
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I'll see you next week.
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重要な語彙とフレーズ
- 隠れナルシスト (covert narcissist)
- 競争する (compete)
- 必要性を軽視する (minimize your needs)
- 罪悪感 (guilt)
- 犠牲者を演じる (play the victim)
- 注意の供給源 (supply of attention)
- 共感力のある子供 (empathetic child)
- 毒性のある環境 (toxic environment)
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