Toxic Personalities
Posted on May 27th, 2009 by Devin
I would estimate in my practice that at least 50% of my overall time working with adults as therapist has been offering advice on how to deal with, or helping “clean up” the emotional messes inflicted on my clients by, toxic personalities. Some people are just chronically not nice.
So in my almost-daily skimming of a few sites for good articles, I ran across this one from Shine (Yahoo): 8 Toxic Personalities to Avoid by Brett Blumenthal (I also recommend her blog at Brett’s Blog ). She does a nice job of being specific and explaining why each personality is toxic.
Knowing what to avoid successfully in life is as important as finding your direction and purpose.
Have a great day everyone!
Devin
Ah, but what if they are unavoidable, like your spouse or your child? Learn to set good boundaries, I guess!
~ Cyndi
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That’s about it, Cyndi. Set good boundaries and stick to them! I typically have a few ideas for this, but after a week my brain hasn’t retrieved them yet. I’ll try to do a follow-up post at some point.
Thanks!