Welcome to understanding today's narcissists, where we will explore how you can better relate and manage the narcissist in your life.

I am your host, psychotherapist and author Christine Hammond.

Just like all shades of yellow are not exactly the same, neither are all narcissists. It would be a lot easier if they looked exactly the same because then we could figure

them out and identify them very quickly and easily.

But that's not the case.

There are some narcissists that are a lot harder to pinpoint and know that they're even

narcissistic in the first place because they hide it so well.

I call these the silent narcissist.

Some people call them covert narcissists.

So we're going to talk about that today and distinguish them from what we call the

grandiose or the overt narcissist because they are far easier to identify. Think of the grandiose

narcissist is the one who just loves the center stage. So they are always in front of a crowd.

They love attention. All press is good press for them.

It doesn't matter what people are talking about a certain overt narcissist.

What matters more is that they're actually talking about them.

So they don't care what anybody else says as long as they're the center of attention at all times.

Those are pretty easy to identify.

I'm sure as I'm talking, you can already figure out that we've had a couple of presidents and our current president that definitely fits into that category.

Understand that narcissism goes across the aisle.

It doesn't matter whether you're a conservative or a liberal or a Democrat or a Republican or even a libertarian.

Narcissists are everywhere and the reason they're so obvious in that particular realm of political power and influence is because that's one of the characteristics that they crave.

They crave that level of attention and there is nothing like getting national attention.

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