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The Mental Healness Podcast

Why Narcissists Expect an AWARD for Telling the Truth?!

The Mental Healness Podcast

Lee Hammock

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

"I told you what I did, so why are you still bringing it up?"Have you ever had a narcissist finally admit to a lie, a betrayal, or a mistake—only for them to get angry at YOU because you were actually hurt by it? This is called the Confession Trap, and it is one of the most manipulative moves in the NPD playbook.

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0:00.0

Jamie Lang and Sophie Haboo have arrived on Disney Plus.

0:04.5

We're having a baby.

0:05.5

We're having a baby.

0:07.2

I've always wanted to be mom.

0:09.4

And we're bringing you on our journey through everything.

0:12.4

I have no idea what we're doing.

0:13.6

Thank you. I have more of an idea.

0:15.6

I think of it like a Tamagocchi.

0:17.8

At the end of all of this...

0:20.0

We're going to have a little baby. Raising Chelsea, a Hulu

0:23.7

original series streaming exclusively on Disney Plus. 18 plus subscription required T's and T supply.

0:33.6

Imagine getting upset with your partner because they didn't accept your honesty and vulnerability.

0:39.4

That's what I used to do as a diagnosed narcissist right.

0:42.7

When I would just be open and honest with my wife about things that I have done wrong and things that I was trying to fix and my wrong doings,

0:51.3

when she would get upset with my honesty and my vulnerability i would get extremely

0:57.4

pissed off and that's probably what a lot of other narcissists out here do nowadays is that when they

1:04.0

are open with you when they are honest with you about things that they have done wrong they will

1:08.7

hold you accountable for not just accepting it

1:11.0

with open arms and forgiveness and whatnot. And that's what we're talking about today, y'all.

1:16.0

A narcissist honesty. When they are open and honest, you are just not fully accepting of said

1:23.7

open honesty, right? Because think about it like this. They don't understand their effect on people, what they do, how their actions affect other people. Most times, narcissists, like myself, we're just worried about ourselves, right? We're just constantly thinking about ourselves and how we're gonna survive and what we're going to do with our own lives. Which makes sense, right? We're narcissists, so that would make sense on why we do the things that we do and how we behave the way that we behave, right? It would make complete sense. But as a person that's dealing with a narcissist, as a survivor, as a thriver, or someone along those lines, you feel it. You get the effects of it. So it makes sense that you're angry. Let's just say, for instance, a narcissist has been cheating on you. And cheating, not everybody cheats right, but like, this is the simplest way to put it. This is say a narcissist has been cheating on you, right? And you've been asking them questions about it. You've been, you got proof or whatever, and they just will not confess to you right and then one day out of nowhere

2:18.8

they finally confessed they're like yes you're right i've been cheating on you and you're like and you

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