Pain Shopping: Why You Can't Stop Checking the Narcissist's Social Media
The Mental Healness Podcast
Lee Hammock
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Are you addicted to "Pain Shopping"? In this video, self-aware narcissist Lee Hammock explains why survivors compulsively check their ex's social media and how narcissists use their profiles as a weapon. Learn how to break the digital trauma bond and stop the cycle of self-harm today.
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| 0:00.0 | So you told yourself you were done. |
| 0:04.0 | You promised your family and friends that you're not going to reach out to them again. |
| 0:09.0 | Like you promised them. You said that you told them the words. |
| 0:12.0 | But guess what? Here you are, 2.30 in the morning, |
| 0:16.0 | looking at their social media from a burner account, peeking at their Instagram from a burner account. |
| 0:21.4 | You're not healing. |
| 0:22.8 | You're pain shopping. |
| 0:25.3 | And as a diagnosed narcissist, I'm going to give you the straight truth right here, y'all. |
| 0:29.6 | One of the most dangerous things that you can do as a survivor or a thriver that's trying to heal from a narcissist. |
| 0:34.6 | One of the worst things you can do in the healing process is to keep looking at their social media. |
| 0:40.2 | My name is Sherlock Holmes. |
| 0:42.0 | It's an unusual name. |
| 0:43.8 | Introducing young Sherlock, a new Guy Ritchie series. |
| 0:47.4 | What's game I would claim today? |
| 0:48.9 | Discover the origins. |
| 0:50.2 | It's leaving. |
| 0:50.8 | Those days are surely behind me. |
| 0:52.5 | Of crime's most iconic mind. |
| 0:54.6 | There has been a break-in. |
| 0:56.9 | Astoned. You should be a detective. |
| 0:59.1 | Starring Hero finds Tiffin, Donald Finn and Colin Firth. |
| 1:02.7 | If you start wearing a hat like that, I will no longer be friends with you. |
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