Maya Angelou said that, 'when a person shows you who they are, believe them the first time'.

@reallyaprilstarr

11 ай бұрын

YUP YUP! Dr. Angelou originated this saying and Oprah repeats it frequently. This saying really helped me some years ago when I was starting to heal from childhood. And I tell clients this frequently.

@natashahardin9324

11 ай бұрын

Correct! Well- known Maya Angelou quote!

@VeryAnnaBerry

11 ай бұрын

Yes, Maya said it and she was so right!

@thescreencommunity5933

11 ай бұрын

@@charzemc yep I have been going through this - its like a psychological thriller that you can't get out of. They are so manipulative that everyone believes them.

@almohvn33

11 ай бұрын

Quote it all the time.

Narcissism is a bootcamp type of spiritual warfare 🥵 if you survive it and escape it, you level up to a spiritual gangster 😂💪

@user-ob6fo6po3n

4 ай бұрын

Amen

@edithflood631

4 ай бұрын

More like promotion from foot soldier to cavalry… you are out of the mud and can see the lay of the land so much more clearly from up there.

@LastMinuteMinistry

3 ай бұрын

Love this.

@merithmoon2501

3 ай бұрын

A chevalier right

@lesliehayes8987

3 ай бұрын

Yes!

Hello fellow survivors. If no one told you today: you are loved. You are enough. ❤

@kipliethurlow9091

15 күн бұрын

Today all I wanted was a kind word . Understanding. I need humans.❤❤ Thank you for thoughtfulness. A mom

@user-kf3yz7so6q

13 күн бұрын

Thank you… you are loved too, and needed ❤️

@Heal..Restore..Moveforward

4 күн бұрын

Thank you for sharing and for your kindness....much much needed. You are loved...you are enough too. 😊🙏🪷

I can see why leaving a narcissist is so hard. We naturally want closure, a feeling of completion, of resolving things in a fair & equitable manner, but this will never happen with a real narcissist, as they simply can't give us what we want or need. It's like a puzzle that can never be solved because many of the key pieces are broken or missing!

@camille9803

11 ай бұрын

it took me 12 years, just now, to accept this.

@patrickholland5478

11 ай бұрын

Great, comment. This is so true, and the realisation I'm having to accept now.

@andrewsmith3257

11 ай бұрын

​@@cppray1 yep they are simply evil turds not masterminds or geniuses 😅

@johnmckenna1776

11 ай бұрын

@@cppray1 You may be right but from my experience I would say no because what I want is not something they even have. You can't give to others what you don't have. Just my take on this, but you may be right with some of these individuals.

@jackie9515

11 ай бұрын

Stop asking others for resolution. It’s like walking on the street and asking for family

This is exactly how I feel. Sometimes I feel like I am mentally hostage, by trying to figure out what the hell just happened.

@Whit0087

11 ай бұрын

Same. It's exhausting

@Greydog184

11 ай бұрын

Right. I literally took care of her when she got the flu at Christmas. Bought her and all the children gifts , then Christmas was over and she went back to work - it was as though she was wanting to be with someone else , but ashamed because it would of made her look like a cheater / betrayer. So she tried to turn me into the monster.

@JacquelineSanders-zb3jm

11 ай бұрын

Yes 7:52

@actionpls.

10 ай бұрын

I feel completely violated. It's going to definitely take a while to shake this experience. Their degree of mental illness is beyond comprehension. You cannot have a normal relationship or conversation with a lunatic.

@Clevelandsteamer324

10 ай бұрын

@@Greydog184standard play

The day I pissed of the narcissist enough and it was finally over, I felt so totally drained washed up, spit out, and kicked to the curb. The next day he had a date with someone else. Two months later they were engaged. Hellacious experience. It was really hard learning these types of people exits. I was forever changed after that 5 year experience. He wanted to destroy me.. Nearly did. Was very rattled and on a deep level, and extra sensitive for a good while. Took nearly a year to feel less broken. Harmful, dangerous people

@teagancoltman630

10 ай бұрын

Yep I feel u

@jeanannedupratt7075

10 ай бұрын

Only 1 year ? It took me 20.

@datingandlifeadvicechannel7534

8 ай бұрын

Yes

@gina1280

8 ай бұрын

I am so glad you survived. I have similar experience and I felt like he was trying to destroy me too.. I am proud of you!

@edithflood631

4 ай бұрын

The way they work from a script is bizarre. Idealization (check!) Love bombs away, grappling hooks engaged, haul in the prey. (Check!) Degradation (check!) Turn on Narcissistic Fog Machine (check!) Establish secret harem (check!) Discard (check!) then Start Smear Campaign (check!). Prepare Flying Monkeys for take-off (check!). There is something so weird about the similarities of everyone’s experiences. There is a ridiculous or absurd clockwork element to it (like they are naughty little wind-up dolls) such that their predictable machinations elicit an involuntary chuckle here and there in between the heart-wrenching sobbing of the victims.

They are never sorry, and they never quite remember anything..

I am moving 500 miles away tomorrow. Up north to a tiny town. I can't get rid of him any other way. This relationship has been the worst experience of my life. I started setting this up months ago and lied (pretended I was him lol). Anyway, sometimes desperate measures need to be taken. I am sure I have been replaced already. Thank god I never had kids with this guy. You only live once - change it up. Move on.

@christinebeames712

7 ай бұрын

Hi I hope you’ve settled in up north , Im Near Manchester , it will feel odd on your own for a while but you deserve better , xxxxx

@dreaboo3216

3 ай бұрын

I want to move away

@sleepydoppy8516

Ай бұрын

I moved 871 miles away. One of the things I did that was right.

@yeswing10

Ай бұрын

Yes, moving 10 hours away was the best thing. Also, no Facebook. They are a wretched curse!

@marigoldmirror5194

29 күн бұрын

When you are healing… contact even gray rock text communication sends you into a trauma hold. Get away! Run! Escape!

After you heal… you laugh. 😊

@brusselsprout5851

11 ай бұрын

I cannot imagine that. But okay.

@Hy-Brasil

11 ай бұрын

​​@@brusselsprout5851 having recovered from physical injuries that made laughing excruciating, i felt like i never would again. My doctor told me i had to do it. Good for your lungs. The same applies here. Emotional healing is the same. What i struggled with, during the emotional healing process was how foolish i felt. It was like believing a hoax or prank. "How could i fall for that??" Gotta do it anyway. Laughter is the best medicine. Also, narcs HATE IT when you laugh.

@yb2112

11 ай бұрын

​@@brusselsprout5851 same

@user-yq5kt5qi3c

10 ай бұрын

Looking forward to the day my ex gets kalmar after 38years of an abused marriage and woken in the last 6months to being under the spell and I'm scared to death of meeting anyone else as I have only ever been in 1 relationship 😢😢😢😢😢

@annapalcic9762

10 ай бұрын

@@user-yq5kt5qi3c same… Thx for sharing.) I don’t have to feel like I’m the only one that’s been faithful to a fault… aka only one relationship.

I’ve found you at the right time. 😢 I was married to a controlling man who I was with for 32 years to finally escape straight into the arms of a narcissist! He has destroyed any faith I have in men but everything you have said here is spot on 😢 I’m in complete limbo feeling hurt rejected confused angry and worst of all violated. They are true wolves in sheep’s clothing! True demons !

@thebatmom

10 ай бұрын

My heart goes out to you!!! Are you safe? Praying for you, it's hard and people who don't understand just make it harder when trying to understand what just happened to us

@nancyfc5002

10 ай бұрын

I relate with you. Remember it is NOT you. Sadly they used us. But it is not YOU. You are amazing, that is why you were chosen. Right now we have to stay on the path of recovery. You CAN do it, and you WILL do it, even if you don't believe it right now. Hug yourself and love be yourself. YOU ARE AMAZING!!

@jsimon7737

10 ай бұрын

This world is full of evil, manipulative, self-serving people. Take your time, share less, learn as much as you can about personality disorders, set boundaries with people. Mostly trust what you feel and not what you see.

@user-xt4jo7hj1s

10 ай бұрын

Satan on Earth, the devil itself.

@iramsavir5631

10 ай бұрын

Exactly same happened to me.😢 I am going through the discard phase now. There was a real monster behind the mask, pretending to be the best and most wonderful man in the world.

16:00 - spot on - no morals , cheat and lie and expect you to be perfection

I would argue that narcissists view all others as LESS than objects, considering the ones I've experienced are extremely materialistic.

@f.frederickskitty2910

Ай бұрын

Selfish and greedy too

I realized that I was just as at fault as my abuser, because knowing deep inside that he was crazy I still stayed. Always waiting for the person who I fell for to come back, leaving was literally (literaaaaally) like mourning several people in one. It's amazing how you knew each one of their personalities. Thanks for traumatizing me further with the freaking eggs in brain thing... ugh

@mrsc2983

11 ай бұрын

You were groomed....

@quantummechanicalengineeri7016

11 ай бұрын

It’s a scare tactic , like look what the power I have. Trust me it is dumb, always is always has.

@jenstevens2998

11 ай бұрын

I would qualify first that you are not at fault. That said, we are responsible for remaining within reach. It was when I chose that perspective, I was able to get out. But before I left it wasnt for hope, but utter fear that I had stayed. My life is still being dragged backward by him and his parents after 4 years out, second time leaving after being forced back using a false accusation of Grand Theft Auto of our family vehicle to force me out of the DV shelter with our children. So I will not take blame for the systematic abuse and crazy making, smear campaign, but I take responsibility for my mistakes and for not having been willing to get out at ALL COSTS. The price gets steeper the longer you stay, and the longer it's drawn out in separating. I suggest swiftly and do not try to be honorable and fair, staying near. Flee far away. They only use your fairness as a wedge in the door to break you. more.

@thebatmom

11 ай бұрын

@Jen Stevens I'm 2yrs out, iam so sorry for what you have and will continue to deal with , the emotions and psychological effects is long lingering , much longer then the physical abuse. You feel alone even when your around lots of people . If you ever need someone to talk too please don't hesitate to reach out. Prayers for you and yours

@cor3944

11 ай бұрын

Stop devaluating yourself. Every human being needs companionship, approval and love. The natural needs for that made you stay. Think about the fact that babies need human touch to literally survive. ❤

I've been following Richard for years. And ever since I started following Richard's work, I've been able to untangle my life from all the abusive lies that have been binding me. Nowadays I have much less abusive situations and abusive people in my life, let's say the amount of abuse in my life has reduced into 5% of what it was 5 years ago.

At last, I was able to leave and discard my narcissistic husband after 28 years of bondage and abusive relationship after I got out from this bad relationship, it is like waking up from a worst nightmare and you wake up into reality, realizing everything.😅

This is insane. Married for 8 years, Confused for 8 years, and this last year I’m seeing things I never thought I’d see. Blatant. Brazen. Inexcusable. Twilight zone, the sky is red-things. You are saying EXACT word for word situations that have happened. It’s crazy. It’s crazy making. Your videos are tremendously helpful and also, what insanity this can be. Thank you 🖤

One someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time-Poet Maya Angelou

It’s the story of the turtle 🐢helping the snake 🐍to cross the stream, by riding on the turtle’s shell. When they get across safely, the snake bites the turtle. The turtle is shocked and the snake replies “I’m a snake “

@adimeter

11 ай бұрын

Unknowingly I was friends with a snake for 67 years. I am her godmother to her daughter. Now we do not talk. I am finally glad.

@hiloknowsall7462

10 ай бұрын

Not nitpicking- but i believe the fable is the scorpion 🦂 and the frog. Snakes 🐍 can swim - but more importantly, this allegorical / didactic fable that i keep salient ❤ it’s a story / message that i can vividly recall that reminds me - why narcs do what they do…it is their “nature” - they aren’t people, they are like Escher’s works - except he was an amazing artist - but the narc is one dimensional, yet appears (to the outsider) to have depth and dimensions which are simply simulacrum of dimension/ 3d whole people…truth is that they are - not people, people have humanity and compassion and empathy - the narc shows their public simulations and for the high level ones, are so often beguiling and totally 💯 believable - but they aren’t actually people. Treating them as such has been my biggest mistake.

@korenbrigham5922

8 ай бұрын

@@hiloknowsall7462yes, thank you. It is the fable of frog and the scorpion.

@roberttruman8444

7 ай бұрын

@@hiloknowsall7462 I totally get where you're coming from and I suffered needlessly for 25 years in an on/off relationship (longest 'off' period was 12 years) with a covert narcissist. Our last relationship went on and off for 7 years and led to me having a nervous breakdown. That became the catalyst for becoming self aware and rapidly extended to the realisation that I'd grown up with a narcissistic mother, and then realising that I had been drawn to narcissists and both my best friend and ex girlfriend had the disease. I like your reference to Escher and can definitely apply it to the female narcissists I've had in my life. For my best friend who is male I am thinking more of the artwork used in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'. I think it's unfair to think of these people as not human, but I can understand the pain and distress that is behind such hyperbole. I prefer to think of these people as emotionally diseased and unfortunate, because they had to suffer abuse and indignities during their formative years to become narcissists, and despite their masked appearance and dishonesty I found that their sadness and weakness was very noticeable at various times. Hatred is a very strong emotion that actually takes a great deal of effort to hold on to and can cause you further emotional and even physical health problems later in life. Hatred is strong, but sympathy will always trump hatred and it has an neutralising effect on your soul. It's impossible to feel hatred for someone you sympathise. Sympathy for someone also prevents them from being attractive to you. So it's a perfect way to approach the narcissistic ex.

@newhorizons1970

Ай бұрын

Its the Scorpio asking the turtle to get him across the river. The turtle then sais: as long as you wont sting me…. Ofcourse I won’t, the scorpio sais, cos if I do, I will drown as well. The turtle being being convinced by this logic, takes the scorpio across. Halfway down the river, the turtle feels a sting and knows the scorpio has stung him. While they are both drowning, the turtle with his last breath asks the scorpio: but WHY? And the Scorpio replies: I cant help it, its what I am…

Lying mouth noises 😂 so very accurate 💯👏🏾

Thank you. This is difficult to hear, but after 38 years, it helps. It's all switched up here, though. I need him to leave my house.

What you said about the spider eggs flying in and hatching is spot on. Today I accidentally got baited into a convo with a group of narcs, they baited me in by complimenting my hair and asking questions. I went home regretting letting them bait me in bc they were so nasty and horrid. Lesson learned. Say thank you and walk away.

Hi Richard. I left a 30 year relationship 9 years ago, and it has taken me this long to finally feel like I'm seeing some light at the end of the tunnel. The final thing I've realised is that you're never, ever, going to get closure or justice from the narcissist, so there's no point trying. This, in itself, I have found very liberating, as it has allowed me to finally silence his voice in my head. Thank you

@Sweetbong_

28 күн бұрын

I left just two weaks ago after 15 years and I feel more teriible than ever…

@kimrobinson6285

16 күн бұрын

​@@Sweetbong_It will get better...it's something we've all gone through. ❤

I don’t know you but you make me laugh out loud …. Literally!!! I am so blessed to have found you. You not only bring a smile you remove the Vice off my head!! All glory to God for you Richard!! 🙌🏻🕊🤍

The trauma in my body from narcissistic family abuse gave me a hypertensive crisis (life threatening high blood pressure) and now stage 4 metastatic cancer... among many many other physical health & mental health problems. The body truly *does* keep the score. These toxic family members ostracized & shunned me for over a decade. Basically left me for dead. When I was diagnosed they all flew back in! Pretending to want to “help” me. 😈😈😈

@insertmyidentityhere

11 ай бұрын

Oh my goodness 😢 I am so sorry to hear that. I am 45 & just finally went No Contact with my family last summer. It is hard enough in this world, without not having a family for emotional support. I feel so alone, especially on holidays. Just letting you know you are not alone in your struggles & pain…. 🙏🙏

@andrewsmith3257

11 ай бұрын

No contact with either of my parents for over 10 years. Hit em where it hurts

@iramsavir5631

10 ай бұрын

I got cancer from the relationship. All the years of suffering heartbreak, and stress took its toll.

@steel811

8 ай бұрын

I’m the same way. Diagnosed with high blood pressure at 17. Doctors ran every test they could to try to figure out why and nothing would explain it. Fast forward a couple of years and I’m just now learning that my mother is a terrible vulnerable narcissist and I was living with my nervous system constantly engaged drowning in cortisol. Also suffer with addiction to cope with the abuse. These people will kill you from the inside out

This came at the right time. You're completely spot on. Finally realized I was dealing with a black belt narcissist. Beginning stages of removing them from my life. Luckily they are very transparent so no one that matters believes anything they say.

@thebatmom

11 ай бұрын

Wishing you the best!

@tmc1564

6 ай бұрын

Sounds like the narc was too stupid to even be narc. Sorry you had the horrific experience of encounter such demon. They are sheer evil 😢

Ive had a confession then gas lighted saying it never happened 😂 omg please god give me strength to forgive myself for allowing a lunatic stay in my life for sooò long😮🙏🙈❤

@rosetinnefeld5526

11 ай бұрын

Me 22yrs!!!

Richard- I LOVE LOVE LOVE the way you communicate this very difficult material. Your humor makes a painful subject easier to digest. You are always spot on. Thanks for all you do. I feel validated after listening to you

@lizknight128

10 ай бұрын

Ditto!

_"I've had a recent experience and I only in the last couple of days woke up to exactly what this person was doing..."_ ... Wow. Mad respect for being so open with us.

@fullgallupfarms

6 күн бұрын

Same! 22 yrs, got a clue the last 6 months! I'm over it! He can kiss it! I've got this,and he's out, just doesn't know it yet lol but he will!

Timely. Fell for a covert narc during the plandemic. After months of text and conversations. Intimacy is just fodder with these a holes. I ran the other way so fast. Tried to maintain the friendship. Impossible. Quite possibly the most disappointing test of my metal. I don’t feel bruised , I just felt like I took a pop quiz and passed in spite of my anxiety about it. I threw myself into productive projects to break the trance of late night talks that were sucking me into lack of sleep and fruitless mornings. The only closure is getting ones goals and projects accomplished without the escalating needy demands of the Narc. My ADHD brain was simultaneously attracted and ultimately repulsed . It was so draining until I engaged and refocused on my own necessities. Spell breaking

@juliaaap922

5 ай бұрын

So impossible!! Great passing the test!! Proud of you

4:15 “When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.” ― Maya Angelou

"Looking for clues...trying to fight for reality..." that slapped me in the face.

If anything, everything YOU've gone through really helps those who have been there!! Don't be so hard on yourself Richard for being such an kind person!!! Please keep on going helping us to NOT go back for closure! Sending you Wisdom and Love!

@Lidiya111

4 ай бұрын

That's true 💯 Dear Richard, thank you! With this video, I finally got My closure.

I was going to check myself into the psych hospital because he made me believe, and even made it look like everyone else even all thought I was crazy, and demon possessed .. knowing in the back of my mind that he was the crazy person.. but God the brainwashing and the fear we have from being trained to cowar was so hard

@cc1k435

11 ай бұрын

I thought I had ADHD or early dementia. Turns out, he just needed to be gone. 😂

@thebatmom

11 ай бұрын

@cc 1k 100% omg yessss!!!! Unfortunately I'm still 2nd guessing everything, but atleast the stuttering is not as bad as it was when I first left

You're killing me! You ARE "the expert"! "Yes, i was there when you told this person what would hurt you the most".

I have a deeply narcissistic sister 18 months younger. I'm 64 now. In November 2013, at age 55, I was at her house. Long story short, her behavior was so awful, something inside me snapped. I'd had this behavior for decades. I abruptly left the occasion and made up my mind I was done. I started researching the net and figured it out: she's a narcissist. I was like Saul on the road to Damascus. The light of understanding finally turned on. Now I listen to Grannons videos. He has said things which I've said to a friend verbatim. I just nce told a friend, my sister has no horizontal relationships, only vertical. You can't believe how fun it was for me to hear Richard Grannon say the exact same thing.

I literally had just gotten out of my worst experience with a true energy vampire narcissist. Then another man came along a started to court me heavy. like Heavy heavy, we are exclusive on the first date heavy..... He filled me up with everything he felt he studies about me and for a good two months it worked. But I believe in the saying. When people show you who they are believe them , right! So the moment I realized that he was only seeing me as a gate way towards his success while telling me that it's all about me. I RANNNNN AND NEVER LOOK BACK. and it only took me one wake up call. I listened and learned Fast. and the more I listen to videos like this and study them...I am picking up on all their tactics... I swear I go back to some videos astonished at the accuracy.

Love you Richard! 😂❤ You described a narcissist no other than a Demon in disguise. My ex narc had a car rego that ended with 666!

@jacquelinetillyer8666

11 ай бұрын

OMG❤

my therapist is on maternity leave so every time i "miss" him i just sigh and pull up one of your videos to talk some sense into me haha. two weeks no contact wohoo! this is the third time i broke up with him so looks like third time is the charm🤡

I wish I’d known this before . When someone shows you who there are then believe them. I have learnt the the hard way. I was in a horrible narcissistic relationship where eventually I was physically hurt, although the emotional abuse , gaslighting and smear campaign was so much worse. I’ve gone no contact but I still feel stupid and completely done in but I wasn’t aware of this disorder at the time . This relationship has totally destroyed me and I’m struggling and I don’t know where to go for help. I feel like no one understands this sort of abuse.

@joematters1982

10 ай бұрын

I am letting you know majority of the Global stage has no idea. Certain laws passed down are literally Made to protect the narcissistic. We breathe it, consume it, see it, bad taste in one’s mouth just str8 rag doll

You are right Richard. When I learned I had the right to say no, and when I implemented it I healed up a great deal. Growing up I was never taught that I could say anything remotely like NO.

45 year ...of abuse....u r spot on....

Leaving them I discovered me. I chose me. Relationships are like mirrors that allow you to see what's broken in you. Therapy wasn't for them but for me to heal the trauma from my childhood. My life is 💯 percent better now. I have time to live my best life now that it's not being consumed by their trauma.

ALL my Pennie’s literally dropped! I’m virtually broke!! My mental lights are switched on! THANK YOU @richardgrannon I cracked a laugh after months of crying, mourning, grieving after years of NPD abuse! First subject expert that I’ve listened to where I don’t feel clinically spoken to! Keep being yourself 🙏

Took me 6 months and 2 operations to get fixed after 18 months with one of those. Lunacy is a very good word for him. Just seen his profile on an online dating site and want to scream to warn other women but for him I feel nothing. I’m so glad I’m out of this fantasy.

I had severe anxiety, especially with my curent gf. Then I started listening to stoicism and other philosophy quotes regarding life and regulating your mind in troubled times. Stoicism quotes from Marcus Aurelius and the other man i forget his name have really helped live in the present and stop the ruminating going on.

@meriemmimi104

11 ай бұрын

That's tomporary , i remember being in your place no stoicism will rescue you when she becomes one perse in the end only running away will help you

@notayoutuber09

11 ай бұрын

@@meriemmimi104 i totally agree you need to run away, im just saying in the moment for those going through severe anxiety and rumination, thats what has helped me

@karinbernhardt8747

11 ай бұрын

@@notayoutuber09 big hug from Holland. You are good and save now. karin. 👍✌💜🌼🎈 Love your comment.

@roberttruman8444

7 ай бұрын

I recently discovered Stoicism and find it very valuable. Yes it can help you as part of a coping mechanism. But unfortunately narcissistic relationships have nowhere to go but down, and you cannot alter the trajectory. I applied stoic philosophy and newly found knowledge of attachment styles to a narcissistic relationship before I knew it was narcissistic, but if I found a way of reducing anxiety and copdependence she would work to find new ways to counteract them. For example I was getting so anxious about how she would read my messages but not respond for many hours at a time. She would try to make excuses for this and I was always torn between wanting to give her the benefit of the doubt, and calling her out on her lies. I decided to turn off read receipts on my phone, and she even noticed and questioned why I did this and I told her it was to save me from my anxious mind. She reduced communication a lot after this and stopped answering her phone and pretending that she was always too busy. Definitely keep up with the stoic philosophy, especially if you have always been, or have developed 'rejection sensitivity'. I think it was Marcus Aurelius who talked about how it's not the insult that hurts us but our interpretation that hurts, which is so true. I would get really affected by close friends and family when they criticised me for "always' doing this or that. But now when I hear an 'always' statement I impersonate Michael Parkinson and politely ask them to list the times when I "always did...........". Maybe they'd get 1 time, but I'd ask for another and another and watch their petit argument crumble before asking them in a slightly condescending tone if they thought 1 or 2 was the same as 'always'.

One: if it's your mother, you will have to make sure that if you want freedom to make sacrifices. I have not talked to siblings in 6-7 years after leaving my mom. Also helps that my eldest sister is a sociopath.

@maytheforcebewithyou4313

6 ай бұрын

Same - entirely NC 6 years from fam. Mom moved goal posts, never was going to release me and say "I am proud of you" I set myself free, who is anyone to hold my life hostage? Grrrrr! 😂😠

So real 👆🏻 But.. when you get to the point when you can truly say what you feel, without anger or resentment, you have won. You won the battle with yourself. When you survive all the craziness and despite all the craziness you're involved in, maintain or regain awareness of your moral values, you've won. Again with yourself. When you are really able to speak from the bottom of your heart without fear of someone judging you or attacking you, it is incredibly liberating. Years ago, I would have struggled with ‘the lunatic’ about how to solve HIS problems not the problems he caused me with his behavior 🤦🏼‍♀️😆 Good luck to all of you who are on this journey, let it be as short and painless as possible. Mr. Richard G. thanks for all the insights into this world of craziness 🍀🦾

My Brother, you Sir .. are SO BANG ON. I can not even begin to tell you how Grateful I am for this wisdom you share with us today. Much RESPECT from the backcountry mountains in British Columbia Canada. Thank you Brother.

I appreciate this lecture very much. There is nothing as poetic as carrying around a broken heart and trying to still seem o.k. to the outside world. Cognitive dissonance, to be sure! It is touching to see myself become "the fool", after all is said and done. If you don't laugh you will surely cry, so laugh, we must.🤡

Richard, you are an absolute lifesaver and I will be forever grateful for you sharing your wisdom and helping me pick myself up from rock bottom. This is my favorite video on the internet right now. Thank you thank you thank you.

Amen: The consistent GasLighting is brain damaging, Literally. I am in trauma counselling and it is daibolacal who I had to become to stay in it. Reason would say if you leave and you will be OK, that is not always the case. But on the Topic of what is funny.... I got to get away, those who are have NPD have to live in their skin FOREVER. So, the best revenge is Leave, you get better, with age (hopefully), sadly, they get worse. That is enough for me. Thank God for the beautiful Strength that self empathy gives, and the courage it takes to leave. I found I am smarter than I had been told, Stronger, than I ever knew, and am becoming better daily.

I’m going to listen to this video at least two more times. Only those who have felt “it” know it’s depth. If I can envision the “badass” it will take to emerge from “it”…I’m gaining ground, slowly…so very slowly. Great job! Very moving.

@luciderr

11 ай бұрын

Definitely. Everyone could listen to it, but without the direct experience it's like a color blind person listening about colors. It takes suffering to actually believe that it is exactly as described.

@lreevesnyc21

9 ай бұрын

@@luciderr EXACTLY. For those who have not experienced this, they cannot relate AT ALL.

Richard, so grateful for your wisdom. Thank you for using your experience to help others extract themselves from the matrix. I am almost 11 months NO CONTACT. He still sends me letters. I see every manipulation clearly now and actually it is quite fascinating. I have grieved, destroyed my childish fantasy of relationships, and grow stronger every day. Becoming an emotionally literate badass!

I remember one particular line he said not long after I met him. He said‘I’m damaged’ Naturally I wanted to know why he felt that way and therefore continued to ‘try’ to make things better, and easier for him! Not me..him! I should have believed him. The damage is deflected onto you. Yes my soul is badly bruised. You make so much sense in this matter. Thank you

@gl4285

11 ай бұрын

Yep! I was told from him directly that he was an "absolute nightmare". I felt at the time that it was on me to prove to him that he was a better person, a more worthy person than he deemed himself to be. Unsurprisingly, I got metaphorically hammered for my trouble.

Priceless. “I’m so glad I’m an expert.” 😂 Best laugh I’ve had in weeks. Thank you for sharing exactly what this shakedown is all about, and the felt reality. Major hope is rising.

Go on Richard!!! Calling out the BS of 'shaming' language. The world has gone mad with this bo**ocks - refreshing to hear the truth delivered in a just cant argue with it way! 👊x

@Thingsgottogetbetter

11 ай бұрын

Indeed and I swear if I hear 'Cosmo' psychology on Co dependenctly, trauma bonding, love language and such ....I will explode!!! It's all quite the "in thing" and it's utterly hideous to see such fashion. It's also demeaning, gentryfying and normalising the very real darkness nPD brings to the world... urgh. Some things need to be spoken about in blunt, honest language!

@andrewsmith3257

11 ай бұрын

​@@Thingsgottogetbetter NPD is as bad as Psychopathy in my opinion. These people destroy people and society. Not a joke

Great analogy with the spider eggs, so true.

Your whole channel means the world to me right now, thank you so much for sharing your experiences and advices, it's incredibly helpful.

I enjoy the the humor in your personality Richard as we we deal with such a sick disorder. Thank you!!😂

@juliaaap922

5 ай бұрын

Me too it’s the best he makes me laugh so bad sometimes” I have to go but but I won’t be to far 😂”

@naura-in9de

2 ай бұрын

@@juliaaap922absolutely delighted I found Richard’s videos today! His humor are a joy to help us navigate the otherwise chaotic process. 🙏❤️

I’m loving your book ! I’m short lived in the narcissist world so I’ll move on soon. But I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your compassion wisdom and dedication that has helped me heal ❤️

My husband was married to a NPD who used him up and left him a shell of his former self. Turned his children against him and continues to play her vile games all these years later. We have set firm boundaries with her and it has made her crazy. Or crazier than she already was. These are very destructive chameleons. These videos have help me so much begin to understand the sick idealism my husband showed for years towards her despite her vicious ways. Thank you for this enlightenment.

@nicholecornes1915

3 ай бұрын

I'm so sorry 😢 the are the most evil people walking on this planet 😢😢😢

Stopped trying to figure it out. Just backed into a corner & staying there. Too sick, too exhausted, too frazzled to frickin' move anywhere or do anything. Lost my mind, my profession, my family, frickin' everything thanks to him. Been running on EMPTY for waaayyyyy too long. Now, it's the victim-shaming phase, so I wire up & tune out. Absolutely right on attempting to say anything, anyway, anyhow to this vicious monster! Nope, he remembers nothing for me, but everyone else? You betcha! I have nothing left; rolled up the sidewalks, boarded up the windows, and I no longer interact. Grieving? You better believe it! I have wasted a lifetime because of smoke & mirrors!

Omg the truth, you’re so amazing… … the story i have is soooo long, like many others over a year long affair the lies the gaslighting to me and our toddler , the fake trips , the fake work itineraries the gas lighting constantly. He even lives with the 3rd party but text me 2 weeks ago saying “please take the dog I’m done, i would have a been a great dad, blah blah”,, the next day i said “are you ok?” and he said “ I”’m fine i was in a mood” … !!! the pain and hovering and breadcrumbing is insane. He was my best friend for 10 years. He surprised me with a “house” would send 100 red roses to my work and then ripped the carpet and my life from under me and now looks at me like I’m a piece of shit on the ground… he and the other woman laugh at me .. he will do it to her too

@user-kf3yz7so6q

13 күн бұрын

Yes, I’m a piece of shit too to ex narc husband… who the hell do they think they are???

100% hard-core truth! You have helped me heal more than you will ever know... Thank you for your videos and much love!❤

Really like that quote about when they show you who they are, believe them the first time. It has meaning to me these days. The more you work on yourself, the less and less you require validation from others, and the smaller a target you become. It takes time but it happens and something tells me that this is all training for something else behind the curtain.

@christmaslady1447

11 ай бұрын

Thanks you very much God bless you ❤

"I'm so glad I'm an expert!" LOL!!!! You really crack me up. That was pretty funny.

"Literrrralalally" Best Grannon ❤😂

Richard, I know you mentioned that you were going to step back from the narcissistic abuse, realm and focus more on philosophy and its usefulness in recovery this year. However, I’m glad to see you’re still creating a lot of content around the abuse, it’s coming up more and more in our culture and so many people waking up to it after having experienced it sometimes for their whole life, and their families of origin, etc.! So much love for your brother, You have been a real lifesaver for so many of us in our times of darkness. And I absolutely love philosophy and healing as well… We can’t stay in the mess and muck of it forever. Luckily, you can do both, especially if you are making videos, there’s no reason to be constrained to one arena

Thank you for your videos!! I am going through a divorce now and this man is able to use the system to continue to abuse… I am realizing that our court systems don’t address mental health at all… and the lawyers just keep leeching and making money.

Hi Richard. Just found you a few days ago and I am honestly hooked on your videos! I am in the process of leaving a very toxic narcissistic marriage and when I feel the sadness and self doubt, your videos have been bringing me back to reality and common sense. He never cared for me, i was ALWAYS a tool for him. I am a genuinely, caring and giving person in my nature and this has been a difficult process for me but I watched your video about the dual mothership and it really all makes sense. Plus, your sense of humor while speaking on this very serious topic is refreshing to my soul and I am so grateful for that. I'm understanding that I am not crazy (although, isn't that what the Narcs swear). Thank you for all that you do. Bless you.

Thank you! I love this line as I unravel my life story .. “ .. and as I’ve said there is no greater source of comedy than having your sanity slowly unravel in front of you.” ~ Richard Grannon

This is precisely what I needed today. Appreciate you so much Richard.

What helps me stay level headed about the narc in my life (whom I co-parent with), is to remember that their behavior is NOT personal to me. I know for a fact that they pull their bullshit with everyone they are involved with. Same sex relationships, opposite sex relationships, everyone.

@JH-td4mn

9 ай бұрын

I realised this too and even told the Narcissist that I didn't take his behaviour personally. I think it actually hastened my discard by doing so! Still hurts terribly despite the knowledge.

Your guidance has accelerated my inner growth and richly enhanced my new life outside the world of the narcissist’s psychosis. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

😂 lunacy is not a badge of merit or "star sign" it is "maladaptive". Such an incisive and valuable and objective truth so cogently laid out. Sanity is such a precious thing and guarding it at all costs is no crime at all.

I recently ended the nightmare just 3 months ago. I wish I would have found your videos sooner....there are lots of videos on the subject...but the way you explain everything is so clear and like you are a fly in the wall of daily routine of life with a narcissist. But I have escaped hell and I'm grateful and relieved and learning each day not to judge myself too harshly for not ending it sooner. I love your videos! Thank you. 😊

Omg! You are so right! So glad I found this. It is absolutely craziness. Over two years on a rollercoaster.

I love that you have said it's not a merit badge!!!!! We are expected to tolerate so much bad behaviour nowadays.

That is so true!! After the narcissistic other's last act of destruction, devastation, I was finished. You can't undo the truth, facts and/or actions. I believed what I saw, felt and their true nature. What was left wasn't appealing, sought after, desired or needed. I'm done!!!

Thanks brother. Even after years of info I still got rekt by a narc recently. And what happened and now is happening is exacly what you explain. Damnit. Cognitive dissonance is going on because fkkin confused still. Got lied to so hard. Its hard to believe they can be so evil. But life goes on.

To the person who is exhausted 6 months later check ur thyroid it can be overactive from chronic stress

@anniewright3233

11 ай бұрын

Also, underactive.

@teresagalvin6233

11 ай бұрын

@@anniewright3233 yes! Thankyou for correction I have over active so I'm being a bit self absorbed I'm only mentioning the one I have 😆🙈🤣

Your humor and your humble honesty is amazing- Thank you!

I love your content, and you give us lots to chew on.

Wow you know your stuff! I tell myself he's not a human. You've described every detail. He gets so annoyed by my existence. he no longer hides any of it. Or when he thinks he's hiding it I can see it so clearly for the mirage it is. I do catch myself slipping and trying to communicate but it's like you say literally a joke. I am just trying to get out safely. I've never met one person like him and to think their are many of them out there walking around yikes. Thanks for taking the time to educate

Wow this struck sooo many chords, I am LITERALLY going through all of these! Thank you for helping me and others struggling with a narcissist.

You are literally delightful.

This video is the best.I will listen to it over many times. Thank you!

34 years married to a covert narc, and I've just woken up to who he is. The last straw happened a week ago and finally the penny dropped. He fits almost every description I've heard of narcs, except he was never aggressive, he didn't need to be because his weapon of choice was always the Bible. Would love to hear your thoughts on religious narcissists and how to seperate when you're in older age group and you don't have the financial ability to walk away immediately.

@theoriginal7727

7 ай бұрын

These nasty critters are all up in the churches, at every level! It is the perfect hideout, perfect way to twist everything around even when they are abusing people, they will say that you’re misinterpreting it, or you need to forgive, and forget to be a good Christian, etc. Really disgusting

@theoriginal7727

7 ай бұрын

Shannon Thomas talks about religious abuse, her books are great! 🎉❤

@lisapollard1548

7 ай бұрын

My mum , sister and partner all covert narcs. Omg

@colleenbucks4385

6 ай бұрын

I am 34 years married also 😢

@kalena26

6 ай бұрын

Yes. My narc used to ridicule me for all of the spiritual books I read. Then he started reading them and more and claimed he was now spiritual. Also read The Bible and would throw all of it in my face. Disgusting!

This is probably one of the best description in a short amount of time of who they are, love the spider egg apology. I enjoyed it, funny too! Yes people, they do not Love anyone, only for a moment and if it's 2 years you got a great manipulation going on, yah, you will go through alot of cobwebs.

I relate to almost everything you say and it kind of makes me sad until your humor takes over, Love it 😂❤️

I agree we do not insist to them, because I certainly do feel invisible. Like I am just a ghost or a spirit with no outer body. Like hey can you even see me. 😵‍💫😵‍💫

Thank you for your time and thoughts Richard. Excellent info, insight, and tickling of my triggers, not just my “funny bone”…..as always 🔥☯️😂😂🤪❤️🖖🦋

Thank you so much for how you closely have studied this, and then translate to those of us for whom this information is lifesaving. It's not for naught, how you have suffered and learned and teach us!!!

I needed to hear this. Thank you, RIchard 🙏

Thank you, greatly helpful.

"Poisonous spider eggs in your brain"....😅 so true!..... just found your podcast today .... good stuff super relatable past and present as I research handling narcissists and BPD .... so much to take in.... thanks for being here ✌ 😊

Richard you are an absolute legend. Just finished your book and it was final act to help me heal from abuse and codependency.

Richard Your short videos are totally awesome thank you!!!❤

“Expect lunacy”!!! This whole video has been refreshingly honest and is bringing much needed clarity! Thank you for not sugar coating this personality disorder!

This video is gold! GOLD! 💛 Thank you! Going through a similar experience, despite 10 years of therapy and a shelf full of psych books. In my defense, he was a former intelligence asset. 😆 Thank you for saving me from messaging him for "closure" about the shocking lies and secret undermining I discovered. You've spared me a brain full of spider eggs and a broken phone. There truly is no moral conscience to appeal to.

@theoriginal7727

7 ай бұрын

No amount of knowledge can replace the heart and wisdom of being with one of these creatures. Regardless of masters or PhD in psychology, psychiatry, etc. Most of those people who have gone through a course of study know almost nothing about these disorders. Just like doctors know almost nothing about health, nutrition, etc. Lots of elephants stampeding through all the rooms of every house in our society right now. The whole house of cards is getting ready to implode!