When A Narcissist's Lie Becomes Their Truth
The Mental Healness Podcast
Lee Hammock
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Do narcissists actually believe their own lies, or do they know they're lying to you? In this episode, I explain the truth about narcissistic lying - whether they believe the stories they tell, and why it might not even matter.
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| 0:00.0 | So, do narcissists believe their own lies? |
| 0:05.0 | Do they believe the mess that comes out of their mouth? |
| 0:09.0 | The dribble, the insanity, the malarkey, the fantastical words and stories that they make up? |
| 0:16.0 | Do they actually believe that? |
| 0:18.0 | Or are they just pathological letters. |
| 0:22.3 | That's what we're talking about today, y'all. |
| 0:28.1 | You know here, my name is Lee Hammack. |
| 0:29.6 | I'm a diagnosed narcissist myself. |
| 0:32.5 | Here to give you the perspective of a narcissus, y'all. |
| 0:37.3 | And, y'all, first of all, let's go and get this out of the way very early on. I, as someone diagnosed |
| 0:39.7 | with NPD, narcissistic personality disorder, don't believe that most, you hear the word right there, |
| 0:45.7 | most M-O-S-T, most narcissists truly believe their own lies. They know that it's a lie. They absolutely do. This is one of those |
| 0:58.0 | things that's not up for debate. Like, if you tell me that the sky is blue and I sir heard |
| 1:04.5 | argue up and down that the damn sky is green or whatever, I know that the sky is blue. |
| 1:10.0 | I just want to mess with you. |
| 1:13.2 | So that's one thing that you have to ask yourself when you're dealing with a narcissistic person. |
| 1:17.8 | Does it matter whether or not they believe their own lies? Does it? Because at the end of the day, |
| 1:26.0 | you know it's a lie. |
| 1:28.1 | You do. |
| 1:29.3 | You know that it's a, you just know it's a gross fabrication. |
| 1:34.5 | It's gaslighting. |
| 1:35.3 | It's manipulated. |
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