Aug 10, 2026 · 58 min · 13 segments
Send us Fan Mail Abuse does not have to leave a mark on your skin to change the way you think, remember, and trust yourself. We sit down with Daniel…
Daniel Ryan CotlerGuestMichael MackniakHost
Victoria CuoreHostOne of the things that I really want to make sure that we dispel right off the bat here in this podcast, because it's very important to me, is the nomenclature, is the verbiage that we use.
About 15, 20 years ago, the medical director of the Department of Mental Health that helped me to start my nonprofit was getting ready to retire.
And I wrote a speech for him, and I had to look up something that defined somebody who was—this was supposed to be funny.
I know this isn't a funny topic, but this, at the time, was supposed to be funny.
Somebody who was self-centered, worried about themselves all the time, trying to make things better for themselves, blah, blah, blah.
So I typed in years ago into the Internet this idea of narcissistic personality disorder.
But the point I'm telling you is the story is that 15 years ago or so, I had to look these terms up.
Nobody had heard – I had heard of it, but I had no idea what it really meant.
Today, I guarantee you I will hear that term narcissism used at least three to four, not just in this podcast, three to four different times.
Everybody's labeled as a narcissist, narcissistic, narcissist, that narcissist.
And the truth is something usually very different from those types of statements.
How do you or does the research or the criminality or even this bill define narcissism and how we should move forward thinking about it in a very specialized, very poignant verbiage?
One of the things that I really want to make sure that we dispel right off the bat here in this podcast, because it's very important to me, is the nomenclature, is the verbiage that we use.
About 15, 20 years ago, the medical director of the Department of Mental Health that helped me to start my nonprofit was getting ready to retire.
And I wrote a speech for him, and I had to look up something that defined somebody who was—this was supposed to be funny.
I know this isn't a funny topic, but this, at the time, was supposed to be funny.
Somebody who was self-centered, worried about themselves all the time, trying to make things better for themselves, blah, blah, blah.
So I typed in years ago into the Internet this idea of narcissistic personality disorder.
But the point I'm telling you is the story is that 15 years ago or so, I had to look these terms up.
Nobody had heard – I had heard of it, but I had no idea what it really meant.
Today, I guarantee you I will hear that term narcissism used at least three to four, not just in this podcast, three to four different times.
Everybody's labeled as a narcissist, narcissistic, narcissist, that narcissist.
And the truth is something usually very different from those types of statements.
How do you or does the research or the criminality or even this bill define narcissism and how we should move forward thinking about it in a very specialized, very poignant verbiage?
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