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The Mental Healness Podcast

How do narcissists experience guilt or remorse?

The Mental Healness Podcast

Lee Hammock

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

"How can they sleep at night after what they did to me?"It’s the question that haunts every survivor. You’re looking for a sign of a conscience, a tear, or a genuine "I’m sorry." But it never comes. In this video, I’m breaking down the psychological mechanics of guilt and remorse from the perspective of a self-aware narcissist.I’m explaining why we don't experience "Remorse" (feeling bad for hurting you), but we do experience "Shame" (feeling bad for being caught or looking like the villain). Learn how the narcissistic brain deletes guilt to keep the "Hero Mask" intact.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What I've dedicated my life to is revenge.

0:04.0

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0:07.0

They think they're better than us.

0:08.0

Who do you think you are?

0:10.0

I'm going to prove to them that they're wrong.

0:11.0

She's punishing me.

0:13.0

You destroyed my family.

0:14.0

I will not rest until I've destroyed yours.

0:17.0

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0:20.0

So you've seen it, haven't you? That split second would her eye A woman of substance on Channel 4 starts tonight at 9.

0:22.8

So you've seen it, haven't you?

0:31.7

That split second would her eyes like soften and you think finally, finally, they see what they did to me.

0:34.8

Finally, they understand what they're putting me through.

0:39.3

And then all of nowhere, they explode, right? They tell you it's your fault, they cheated.

0:42.3

Or your fault, they lied, your fault, they put their hands on you.

0:46.3

It's all your fault.

0:48.3

Look, as a diagnosed narcissist, I can tell you right now that

0:53.3

narcissists might feel guilty for a second, for a moment, for a few minutes, but the mind cannot stay there.

1:01.1

It's way too painful. Accountability is painful. Guilt is painful. So the mind does automatically does these mental gymnastics, these mental backflips of sort to make you

1:13.9

the bad guy to deflect the blame to you or to someone else in close vicinity to my mom my dad

1:20.0

whoever it is my boss at work whoever it is it can't be me right today let's talk about why

1:26.3

narcissists can't sit sit with guilt or remorse y'all

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