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The Mental Healness Podcast

Why You Should Stop Checking Your Abusive Ex's Social Media

The Mental Healness Podcast

Lee Hammock

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Why do we intentionally look for things we know will hurt us? If you find yourself constantly typing your toxic ex's name into a search bar to check up on their new life, you are engaging in "pain shopping."In this video, I break down the behavioral psychology behind why survivors spy on their abusers online. We discuss the reality behind their curated posts, why your brain craves the negative emotional spike, and how checking their profiles completely stalls your healing journey. Stop letting their digital billboard control your peace of mind.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

So you told yourself you were done.

0:04.3

You promised your family and friends that you're not going to reach out to them again.

0:09.0

Like you promised them.

0:10.1

You said it.

0:10.8

You told them the words.

0:12.7

But guess what?

0:13.5

Here you are, 2.30 in the morning looking at their social media from a burner account,

0:19.1

peeking at their Instagram from a burner account.

0:21.4

You're not healing.

0:22.7

You're paying 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

0:33.6

to heal from a narcissist, one of the worst things you can do in the healing process is to

0:37.8

keep looking at their social media. It brings you no peace. Like you think, you might think that

0:44.0

you're gathering evidence, but what you're actually doing is retramatizing yourself. You're making,

0:49.1

you're doing this to yourself again. You're hurting yourself. You're going pain shopping,

0:52.9

looking for something that's going to hurt you.

0:56.0

We're breaking it down today, y'all. Don't we break it down while your brain is addicted to the hurt.

1:01.7

And how we use, how us as narcissists use our social media to keep you trapped in this pain shopping mode, to keep you coming back to the pain store to pain at walmart

1:12.8

right and what's going on beautiful people if you don't know me i'm lee hammock i'm a diagnosed

1:17.7

narcissist here to help you understand the mind of a narcissist and welcome to another episode of the

1:23.3

narcissist code y'all seriously man let's pop right into it, man. Pain shopping, looking at their

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