Toxic people. How to protect yourself from daffodils, gaslaiters, psychopaths and other manipulators. Shahida Arabi

A book for everyone who has to deal with toxic people. You will learn to build communication according to your rules and do not allow yourself to be manipulated. When an article by Arabi Arabi “20 distracting maneuvers, with the help of which daffodils, sociopaths and psychopaths manipulate you, manipulate you and plug your mouth”, it was read by more than 18 million people around the world. Both the victims of the manipulators and specialists in the field of mental health with enthusiasm shared it and recognized her rightness. Unfortunately, none of us is safe from communicating with toxic people who can be colleagues, family partner or even parents. At the same time, you may be convinced that you react too sharply, inflate an elephant from a fly, and use other tactics of psychological manipulations. Manipulators can be “soft” and aggressive. Toxicity can manifest itself in different ways. However, the most important life skill that needs to be developed is a willingness to repulse any manipulator and all possible manifestations of toxicity in relationships.

In this guide you will find the theoretical basis and practical exercises that will help you:

• Determine toxic people and choose effective ways of interacting with them;
• learn to recognize the first signs of what you are trying to manipulate, and immediately stop the common types of psychological violence, such as gazlawling, ignoring , projecting, “love bombardment” and so on;
• find out how to recover after an injury in a relationship and form healthy personal boundaries with a support on the internal “I”.

This is one of the most useful books for people who want to better understand themselves and live a happy and calm life without toxic communication and manipulations.