June 30, 2022

EP. 117 — Understanding Narcissism with Dr. Ramani Durvasula

Clinical Psychiatrist and author Dr. Ramani Durvasula joins Jameela this week to explain the ins and outs of narcissism. They cover what it is, the different forms it takes, how the world encourages narcissism in its leaders, how to recognize narcissism in a relationship, the ways narcissism is nurtured, how to survive in a relationship with a narcissist, and more. 

 
Check out Dr. Ramani Durvasula’s books on narcissism, Don’t You Know Who I Am and Should I Stay or Should I Go wherever books are sold. 
You can follow Dr. Ramani on Twitter and Instagram @doctorramani

You can find transcripts for this episode here: https://www.earwolf.com/show/iweigh-with-jameela-jamil/

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Transcript

Jameela [00:00:00] Hello and welcome to another episode of I Weigh with Jameela Jamil. Podcast that hates shame. I hope you’re alright. Been fucking hard. Honestly it’s just maddening. It’s hard not to feel completely paralyzed with fear and hopelessness and that’s what they want. So it’s really important that we take our time to grieve, we take our time to comfort each other, and then we start organizing and planning and we start fucking fighting about who is allowed to say that their rights are being infringed upon. We all of our rights are essentially being infringed upon. All of us get fucked if we force birth. Not just women, not just birthing people. Cis men will even be impacted by this because either they’ll be forced to be fathers or forced to pay child care for the rest of their lives. Or they will also live in this world that we are about to enter that has even worse overcrowding, that has even less baby formula, that has even more childr

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