Spotting a toxic person and dealing with them
You know, how sometimes we just can’t remember the right word that describes something? We wrack our brains for it and come up with a bunch of similar meaning ones in the process. I tried long and hard to find the word that described a person in my life, and came up with ‘draining’, ‘parasitic’, and a couple of others. Only recently did I finally realize that the adjective I was looking for was ‘toxic’.
Just like it is necessary to remove toxins from our food and body, mental and emotional toxins need to be eradicated too. In toxic relationships usually one party hurts the other. Such kinds of associations may exist between any two people – friends, coworkers, family members, etc.
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A toxic person will always be the first person to give forceful and manipulative advice based on events from their life, but will never accept any from others.
6. They’re narcissistic and egotistical.
Toxic people are forever looking for self-gratification from anyone and everyone around, though they expect it more from people they are closest to. And the bigger problem here is that we tend to encourage this behavior in them by giving them what they want. We feed their ego to keep them happy (or usually at bay) and that only makes it worse.
As they see it, everything absolutely must be about them; else the world will come to a standstill. These people are too self-centered and absorbed in their own lives to notice anything and anyone outside their little bubble. You’d think bursting that bubble would do the trick, right? Sadly, not. They’ll simply build another one, shove you aside and strut past like they own the world.
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You know, how sometimes we just can’t remember the right word that describes something? We wrack our brains for it and come up with a bunch of similar meaning ones in the process. I tried long and hard to find the word that described a person in my life, and came up with ‘draining’, ‘parasitic’, and a couple of others. Only recently did I finally realize that the adjective I was looking for was ‘toxic’.
Just like it is necessary to remove toxins from our food and body, mental and emotional toxins need to be eradicated too. In toxic relationships usually one party hurts the other. Such kinds of associations may exist between any two people – friends, coworkers, family members, etc.
Relationships …show more content…
A toxic person will always be the first person to give forceful and manipulative advice based on events from their life, but will never accept any from others.
6. They’re narcissistic and egotistical.
Toxic people are forever looking for self-gratification from anyone and everyone around, though they expect it more from people they are closest to. And the bigger problem here is that we tend to encourage this behavior in them by giving them what they want. We feed their ego to keep them happy (or usually at bay) and that only makes it worse.
As they see it, everything absolutely must be about them; else the world will come to a standstill. These people are too self-centered and absorbed in their own lives to notice anything and anyone outside their little bubble. You’d think bursting that bubble would do the trick, right? Sadly, not. They’ll simply build another one, shove you aside and strut past like they own the world.
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