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Why I Feel Bad for Narcissists
Understanding the root cause can help you be free.
I’ve had a fairly large mental health YouTube channel for a while now. As someone who has been through trauma myself, I try to give advice on how to recover based on my experience. I get a lot of people requesting that I do videos or articles on narcissistic abuse, but I don’t, and it’s for a few reasons. Even though I’ve been negatively affected by narcissists, my views don’t follow the herd mentality when it comes to the subject.
We’ve all been hurt by someone in our lives. Whether it was a friend, a family member, an ex or a boss. One of the easiest things we can do is label them as a narcissist and move on our way. Something happened in recent years where there are a massive amount of people who are quick to slap a narcissist label on anyone who treated them poorly. This has become an overused catch-all label that I’m not a fan of.
The next reason is that although there are many people who have been harmed by actual narcissists, this is a low-hanging fruit. You can find videos on YouTube with hundreds of thousands of views about narcissists, and there is a laundry list of books out there about narcissists. Those affected by actual narcissists are few and far between, but this is an easy cash grab that allows people to not take responsibility for a relationship that went poorly.
