How do you deal with a "toxic" person?

Question

LIKE A NEGATIVE, JERKY, OBNOXIOUS PERSON.

Answer 1

The same way you deal with toxins in your body... you've got to flush them out. Life it too short to surround yourself with negative, jerky, obnoxious people.

Answer 2

I do not do well around these type of folks. In fact I am not one to take no for an answer or listen to know it alls. As a matter of fact I recently lost my best friend due to her husband's such behavior. The really terrible part about it is that she went along for the ride.
Toxic persons are not a good influence on positive people . Of course, if you are smart in that way, do not let them interfere with your life. Nor should you interfere in thiers as they will try to show you that using their methods is the best way to achieve your goals. Most of the time negativity and obnoxiousness will steer people away from you naturally and you will have to learn the hard way that this behavior is not acceptable in social circles, however difficult it may be to learn.

Answer 3

Dear bothered by toxic peeps. I strongly suggest the use of a tin foil beany and wrapping yourself in Saran Wrap. This will seal in your precious bodily fluids and protect you from the toxicity of obnoxious folks. If that doesn't work there are desert islands where you live life alone.

Answer 4

Deal with them only on a limited basis. Stay away from them as much as possible. If they're a family member, and you have no choice but to be near them more often than is good, try to steer the conversation away from the topics that get them going more than usual; and make sure you have some private space to get away from them when necessary.

One note about negative people: They can get into a little "game" of being very negative in order to make you try to help them be more positive. They seem to get some kind of pleasure out of making you try harder and harder to get them to be positive. They aren't going to be positive, and doing this dance with them only makes them worse. Try being negative to a negative person. It may help shut them up.

Answer 5

As much as possible remove this person from your life. The only circumstance in which I would still be in contact would be work, where I would treat them with disdain , even scoff at the fool. If the person happened to be family I really would have very little to do with them.

Answer 6

You need to keep them at the greatest possible distance . If it's a family member , you still do not have to subject yourself to the undue stress that a "toxic" person subjects you to . Be where they aren't . Keep them at arm's length as much as possible to maintain positive , stress-free living .

Answer 7

By releasing them from you social circle. People that bring negativity in your life, make you depressed. They dont bring in much of a help in your life. But is hard when is immediate family. U just put up with them otherwise.

Answer 8

Let it wash over you. lifes too short n taken too seriuosly to get v tnse over something that in the grand sceme of things matters not a bean

Answer 9

Avoid them. If thats not possible, take everything they say as a joke, in other words don't react. Think of them as mentally challenged, poor, pitiful victims of a mental illness who cannot act any other way, so nothing...NOTHING they say matters. Don't take anything they say seriously, don't react because they can't help themselves, they are sick.

Answer 10

Are you talking about me ? How dare you ?

Anyway, you can go higher path or lower path.

Lower path is copy exactly the same and mimic that person in front of him/her. This is pretty confrontational.

Higer path is that ignore them. isolate them and let them go away on their own.