Can a narcissist change their stripes?
The Mental Healness Podcast
Lee Hammock
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Is it possible for a narcissist to change for good or is it all only temporary?
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| 0:00.0 | So can a narcissist ever truly change their stripes? Can a narcissist ever truly change their behaviors? |
| 0:07.0 | Can a narcissist go to therapy, work with themselves, and become a better human being and treat everybody around them better? |
| 0:13.0 | Ha! |
| 0:14.0 | That's what we're talking about today, y'all. |
| 0:16.0 | Of course, if you knew here, I'm Lee Hammack. I'm a diagnosed narcissist who's here to give you the perspective and inside look at the mind |
| 0:22.9 | of a narcissist job. |
| 0:23.9 | And we're going to hop right into it. |
| 0:27.1 | Narcissistic people and the ability to change their behavior, the ability to change their |
| 0:32.0 | stripes like a damn zebra. |
| 0:33.5 | Can a zebra changes stripes? |
| 0:35.8 | No. |
| 0:36.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.3 | As someone diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder, I personally feel like it would be disingenuous of me to come out here and just say that it's absolutely impossible for every any narcissist on this planet to just be better. I was, I can't say that because I have the personality disorder. |
| 0:57.0 | I have become a better person over the years, right? |
| 1:00.1 | But there's always a but-a-and-it. |
| 1:02.3 | It's a huge caveat. |
| 1:03.9 | But I am one of the exceptions. |
| 1:07.5 | I am not the rule. |
| 1:08.6 | The rule is that narcissists can't change. |
| 1:12.6 | Of course, through every rule, almost every rule, there are going to be exceptions. I personally don't think that I have changed because I, in fact, |
| 1:20.6 | am still a narcissist. I am. Let's keep that clear right there. I still have narcissistic personality disorder. |
| 1:29.2 | Although I have went to therapy and worked on myself, |
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