This is understanding today's narcissist.

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And now here's your host, Christine Hammond.

Hi, this is going to be part one in a series of eight different podcasts I'll be doing

on abuse tactics that narcissists commonly use.

The reason I want to focus on this is because so many people don't even realize that they are being abused when it's happening.

So we're going to go over what the different types of tactics look like for each of the eight eight different categories, and that should be able

to help you to see whether or not you are experiencing abuse by a narcissist.

Our first one today is going to be on mental abuse.

So to give you kind of an example of what that looks like, mental abuse is not the same as like

physical abuse, where you can actually see a mark or a verbal abuse where you can hear something.

Mental abuse has to do with how you play with somebody's mind, how you manipulate them into getting

them to think certain things or feel

certain things or say certain things or even do things. So it's like an intentional explosion that

they use maybe to manipulate you into agreeing with something that you would never do. Or it's like

insults mixed with rejection.

And then they do this little tactic where they pull you back in by giving you some affirmation.

So it says back and forth that kind of happens. It's what we would call mind games.

And so I really want to kind of dive into the examples that we're going to go through.

And I'm going to give you eight different examples for what mental abuse actually looks like.

And it's some scenarios to go along with them so that you can get a better feel for this.

So the first one is rage. So this is an intense, furious anger that comes absolutely out of nowhere and usually

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