S1:E1 | You're Not Crazy. What You Survived Has a Name.

You've been told you were too sensitive. Too dramatic. That you just needed to communicate better, pray more, love harder, give more grace. You believed them — and it cost you years.Episode one of F*ck You Narcissist is where we stop questioning ourselves and start dealing in facts.Host Tracey Lynch — author, founder, and survivor — opens the show with the truth nobody told you: what you lived through has a clinical name, a documented profile, and a body count. This isn't a show about venting. It's not a show about villains. It's a show about you — your healing, your science, your survival.In this episode:→ The DSM-5 definition of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, all nine diagnostic criteria, read slowly and deliberately so you can finally recognize what you were living inside of→ The real scale of narcissistic abuse in America — over 20 million diagnosed narcissists, and an estimated 158 million people in significant, disruptive relationships with one. This is not a personality quirk. This is an epidemic.→ The ancient Greek myth of Narcissus — a 2,000-year-old psychological blueprint that proves humanity has always known this pattern existed, and always paid the price for ignoring it→ Tracey's personal reason for creating this show: her sister June, 53 years old, who died in January 2026 of takotsubo cardiomyopathy — a medically recognized heart failure triggered by acute emotional stress. Her heart gave out because her children had already left her long before her body did.→ What this podcast will cover over 27 episodes: trauma bonding, love bombing, spiritual abuse, financial exploitation, grandparent alienation, parental estrangement, and the neurological science of why you cannot simply "just leave" or "just get over it" — no matter how many people tell you toThis show runs on one principle: facts, not feelings. Your feelings matter deeply — but feelings can be manipulated. Facts cannot. Every episode will arm you with science, research, history, and data so that the next time someone tries to make you question your own reality, you have an answer. Not an emotional response. An answer.If you found this show at 2AM sitting in a parking lot wondering if you're crazy — you're not. You're accurate. And you are exactly where you're supposed to be.Subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with the person you've been trying to explain this to for years. Let the podcast do the explaining for you.Next week: Love Bombing — the most beautiful trap ever set.Facts. Not feelings.🎧 Subscribe to F*ck You Narcissist on ⁠Spotify⁠ & leave a review.Find Tracey Lynch at ⁠traceylynch.com⁠Subscribe on ⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠ & leave a reviewSubscribe to the weekly ⁠Sunday Reset Newsletter⁠