How a Narcissist Treats You is How They Feel About Themselves
The Mental Healness Podcast
Lee Hammock
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Why a Narcissist's Treatment of You is Actually a Confession 🪞ConfessionHave you ever wondered why someone who "loved" you could treat you so poorly? In this video, self-aware narcissist Lee Hammock breaks down the psychology of Projection.Most people believe that the narcissist’s behavior is a reaction to something they did wrong. The truth is much darker: How a narcissist treats you is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.We explore the "Mirror Effect," why insults are actually admissions of insecurity, and how to stop being the "trash can" for a narcissist's internal shame. Once you understand that their behavior is a map of their own self-hatred, you can stop taking it personally and start healing.
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| 0:00.0 | So I'm going to tell you something that is going to change the way you look at narcissists. |
| 0:06.0 | It's going to change the way. |
| 0:07.4 | You look at every single insult they give you, every single discard, every single silent treatment, every single narcissistic rage. |
| 0:14.5 | As I diagnose narcissist, I can tell you, I never treated you based on your value. |
| 0:21.4 | I treated you based on my own. |
| 0:24.2 | The way I treated you is not based on your value, not based on your worth. |
| 0:28.2 | It's based on how I feel about myself. |
| 0:31.4 | If I or that narcissist ever made you feel small, it's because they felt microscopic. |
| 0:37.2 | If they called you unlovable, it's because they couldn't find a shred of self-love within themselves, |
| 0:43.3 | within their souls. |
| 0:44.8 | Today, we're talking about the mirror effect, y'all, the mirror effect, and why how I treated |
| 0:51.7 | you is a literal map, a literal designation of how I felt about myself. |
| 0:59.4 | Bring on the intro fire. |
| 1:01.4 | Right after the Super Bowl, you get super narcissists, right? |
| 1:06.3 | But that's what we're talking about today, y'all, |
| 1:07.9 | the mirror effect. |
| 1:08.6 | If you knew here, Lee Hammock diagnosed Narciss |
| 1:10.6 | and let's hop right into it, y'all. |
| 1:28.8 | Think of a narcissist like a house filled with, like, rotting garbage. And I know that's not, look, that's not difficult for a lot of y'all, right? You were like, well, Lee, I already think about it anyway. That's literally how I look at them, like a house filled a rotting garbage. Look, think of this shame. |
| 1:30.8 | The insecurity did not enough feeling that is piling up inside that narcissist like if I don't get rid of it I'll suffocate |
| 1:36.9 | it has to go somewhere if I don't get rid of these negative feelings these negative |
| 1:40.8 | thoughts they they were starting to eat me alive. So they have to go somewhere. |
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