How to spot toxic people

Your mood is not always ruined by your work problems and responsibilities. Actually, toxic people have the strongest impact in your feelings; they can cause strong negative emotions and massively increase your stress levels.

You really need to stop underestimating the negative impact of toxic people on your life and start dealing with them or completely distance yourself from them. But before that, you’ll have to clearly identify toxic people around you. Here are descriptions of 7 types of people who really are toxic and you should start dealing with them.

Dishonest and liars

They are not trustworthy anymore, you are all the time wondering if what they said is true or it’s just another lie. They are not honest about what they have in their minds and how they really feel, and you found out that they have lied to you several times.

Complaining and whining people

They are constantly complaining about how their work is hard, about how people are bad, about how life is so sad… they are complaining about everything and you can’t have a conversation with them without hearing them whining. There are two types of those people, those who are doing that because they have a negative mindset and those who are doing it on purpose and are completely aware of the negative impact that they have on you. Anyway, they are both toxic for you.

Gossipers

They are all the time discussing other people’s life. They are constantly bringing to you intimate or private rumors or facts about others, their secrets, what they are planning to do, what they said about you…

Rude and hurtful people

They are always trying to find a way to hurt you and make you feel bad. They are known to constantly have negative and rude criticism and remarks, which put in question other people’s diligence and ability, or even their honesty. They feel deep satisfaction from the pain of others.

Manipulators and profiteers

You have a feeling or you actually know that they are just exploiting you. They are around you just to get some material benefits or to extract information from you; they are sucking your time and your energy. They are all the time talking about themselves and their problems, and they have no compassion or empathy for you or the others. They are selfish people trying to have a better life by exploiting their relationships with the others.

Moody and Temperamental people

Not only they have no control over their emotions and feelings, but every time when they suddenly start to go into the negative sad mood, they rudely project their sadness, anger, hatred and all of their negative feelings onto you, and they can even make you think that you are one of the causes of their sadness and pain.

Conceited and arrogant people

They are persons with deep psychological insecurities who are trying to feel self-confidence by showing an offensive attitude of superiority. They don’t admit their errors, they don’t accept your bits of advice, and they are often against what you tell them because you can’t know more than them. They put their “pride” above everything even if they clearly know they are not right. This type of people can tend to have other toxic behaviors like being dishonest, cheating or being deliberately hurtful.