HOW TO IDENTIFY A TOXIC PERSON?
The relationships we share with people around us contribute a lot towards building our self conception — our self esteem, self image, and our growth. This is why it is very important to share healthy relationships with people. One of the greatest challenges of life is to identify the red flags of dealing with toxic people. There are some of the common traits of toxic people which help you to identify them.
These traits are :-
- These people manipulate you to do what they want and have no respect for your own goals. It is always about them.
- They are judgemental and critical of everything you do and how you do it. They tend to not appreciate the effort you put behind those things.
- They don’t ever take any responsibility for their actions and try to pin the aftermath on you. They tend to play the victim card and get all the sympathy.
- They ask you again and again to prove yourself, your intentions and priorities to them by making you choose between something you want and something they want you to want. It might lead to you cutting something off your life which may be very important like a dream or a relationship.
- Their behavior towards you keeps changing as their actions and attitude towards you is based on what they want to accomplish. This can be very draining for you as you might feel indecisive about how you feel around them.
As humans, we tend to try and have long term relationships, even if they become toxic or bad for our mental health. We need to identify toxic people around us and maintain a certain amount of distance from them so that they don’t impact our sanity.
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