These are my personal opinions.

Always seek a professional when you're making choices about your mental health and well-being.

So how do you keep toxic people out of your life?

That was a question that showed up in the Facebook group, the Overwhelmed Brain Empowerment

Group.

You're welcome to join.

Check it out.

The question about keeping toxic people out of your life, I gave an answer that I think

it was okay.

I think it was all right.

And I'm happy to talk about that now.

I think that's a great subject to bring up.

One of the reflections I had on it, this isn't actually the answer I gave in the group, but one of the reflections I had on it was the words we use are very important.

The words that we share or express to someone else are

of the utmost importance, especially with a toxic person or manipulative person. Because manipulators,

I'll just call them that, manipulators know how to take your words

and turn them into what they want to hear or turn them into what outcome they want to get.

So if the manipulative person wants to go to the movies tonight and they want you to come with

them, when you say, I probably won't want to go, they can say, well, let's go.

Let's go anyway.

And you can, you know, surely say no, of course. Now you are expressing a boundary or just

a desire. I don't want to go. That's my desire. Or you could say, I don't really want to go. I don't

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