Mental Health Care: When You’re Learning to Be Okay With Yourself - 10 Toxic People To Avoid

Toxic people are more accurately described as people who routinely exhibit behaviors that are negative, unhealthy, and debilitating to others. Do you have a toxic person in your life? While these behaviors are toxic, it is important to recognize that the person may be fighting emotional battles of their own. However, we should still be more aware of people like this because they can have a huge impact on your performance and happiness. If some of these types described you and you're feeling guilty of engaging in some of these negative behaviors yourself, but you're still unsure if you're really becoming toxic, we've also made a video on the signs you've become a toxic person: https://youtu.be/QIiLueBRYL8 Writer: Ria Parikh Script Editor: Rida Batool Script Manager: Kelly Soong VO: Amanda Silvera Animator: Lesly Drue - [email protected] YouTube Manager: Cindy Cheong References Bayes-Fleming, Nicole. “The Mind-Traps that Lead to Toxic Jealousy”. Mindful. 14 December 2018. Imafidon, Casey. “10 Types of Toxic People You Should Be Careful Of”. Lifehack. N.d. Lancer, Darlene. “How Insecurity Leads to Envy, Jealousy, and Shame”. Psych Central. 8 October 2018. Nazareth, Felicia. “10 Types Of Toxic People To Avoid In Life & Toxic Personality Traits”. Align Thoughts. 18 December 2017. Perron, Josée. “5 Types of Toxic People Who Will Poison your Path if you Let Them”. You Choose The Way. 26 June 2018. Stosny, Steven. “What’s Wrong with Criticism”. Psychology Today. 18 April 2014. Tartakovsky, Margarita. “What’s a Toxic Person & How Do You Deal With One?”. Psych Central. 8 July 2018. Tartakovsky, Margarita. “Why Ultimatums Are Actually Destructive to Your Relationship”. Psych Central. 8 July 2018. Do you have any personal stories or video requests that you would like to share with us? If so, feel free to email us at [email protected]