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The Mental Healness Podcast

Why narcissists are the perfect reflection of you

The Mental Healness Podcast

Lee Hammock

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

"The person you fell in love with was actually just a better version of yourself."It’s the most painful realization in recovery: the 'soulmate' you think you lost was a manufactured character. Today, I’m taking the mask off to explain the "Representative"—the fake persona narcissists use to hook you—and how we use mirroring to make you fall in love with your own best qualities.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

You didn't fall in love with that narcissist. You know that right. You absolutely did not fall in love with that person. What you fell in love with was a version of them. Yeah, yeah. What did you think I was going with that? Of course, if you knew here, my name is Lee Hammack. I'm a diagnosed narcissist myself. And welcome to another episode of the narcissist code, yall. Let's get it. Let's get it. Let's get it. Let's get it. I know what I started the video. Y'all like Lee, where you going with this? Lee, you always, you, I knew you with something. But Lee, I did love them. I know you did. But did you love them? Or did you love the version of them that they presented for you? Did you love the version of them that they presented for you?

0:39.5

Did you love the version of them that they showed you at first up front as opposed to

0:44.1

some different version of them that was concocted from the past, right?

0:48.8

Who did you fall in love with?

0:53.3

Seriously.

0:54.1

Who did you fall in love?

0:54.8

Because so many people, the reason I asked that question is because you can't see right

0:59.1

here and say, and I talk to so many people on my Zoom calls, right, that say, hey, lady,

1:03.8

if this person right now that's treating me this badly was the person I met in the

1:08.9

beginning, I wouldn't be here. You see what I'm saying?

1:13.6

If they were treating you the same way that they're treating you, if they started the relationship

1:17.8

off the same way that they're doing it right now, most people wouldn't still be there.

1:24.1

Most people wouldn't say I still love this person. Most people wouldn't have gained a person a chance you know that I said most people because there are some people

1:30.6

out there that absolutely would right there are so many people out there that

1:34.8

absolutely would there's some there's things going on that might be outside of my control

1:40.2

right the might be outside of my wheelhouse but But most people would say, no, I'm not

1:44.8

dealing with this. But there are some people who's like, yeah, I'll give them a chance. They're cute. They got dreds. They got hair. They got a nice little booty on them. Whatever. Some of them, some people will. Hey, this is not the judgment channel. This is the self-aware narcissists channel, right? but seriously

2:00.9

did you fall

2:02.2

who did you fall in love with y'all

2:03.6

because so many people

2:04.6

some of people some This is the self-aware narcissist channel, right? But seriously, who did you fall in love with y'all?

2:03.9

Because so many people, so many people struggle to leave these relationships because you feel

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