Written by Chris Josh
Beware of the person who always has bad news to share. I’m not talking about the occasional instances. I’m talking about people who do this chronically.
They’ll tell you all the bad news that’s happening everywhere in the world. Things that are irrelevant to you and them.
Why do they do this? Chances are, they know you’re a caring person and they enjoy watching you give them an emotional reaction.
It’s sort of like a game to them. They think it’s funny to manipulate you and see you waste your time and energy on their non-sense.
Once again, I’m talking about someone with constant and excessive bad news. They’ll tell you all the drama that’s happening with their siblings, their friends, and even people in countries you never heard of.
What should you do? You really have only two options here. 1) let them know not to constantly bombard you with bad news. That it’s ok if they tell you something that happened to them or their loved ones as long as it’s not constant and excessive. 2) cut them off.
When should you cut them off? When you’ve deduced that they are maliciously and intentionally trying to steal your energy and/or drain your energy.
If you always find yourself drained after interacting with the toxic person and, on the flip side, they end up feeling more energetic, upbeat and in a good mood; then it’s safe to say this person is not good for you.
Do you have someone like this in your life?
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I call this news of losers.
yes, thats a hard one. family. you are correct they are happy and i am drained. always an emergency to get me to talk to them. i tried cutting off. then its an emergency now and its really not. still trying to cut off but hard with family.
Great feedback ! my husband actually is the one that always feeds off the news and I’ve told him time and time again just saw a lot of bad news. I really don’t want that. I really don’t wanna hear it and his argument as well. You have to know what’s going on in the world so that you can let other people know and Don, let them be blind to what’s going on you know I said yeah I understand what you’re saying but you don’t want people to get closed off so that when they really do need to communicate with you, they don’t reach out to you because you’re always negative and you’re passionate about what’s going on . Anyway I am have averted him many times by saying well why don’t you find a joke or look into something positive instead of voice I need something negative so he actually has started telling me jokes and trying to look for something that’s positive, but I think he enjoys the politics he enjoys, keeping up-to-date . I think it keeps him like preoccupied because he has a busy mind and he doesn’t really have a lot going on because he’s retired, but I noticed like you said that it sometimes sets me off the wrong way in the morning so instead of communicating with them sometimes I’m like I need to get my coffee and go downstairs so I can write my book so that I believe that he can communicate with me, but I find myself running away because I don’t wanna hear the negative energy because I feel it’s taking away from me right but I never thought of him that way like how do I say this, I never thought it was a purposeful thing I think he likes to share. Maybe he does see my reaction but I I never thought about him as actually doing you on purpose for that reason that does keep me around even though I don’t wanna be and I usually getting tired so that’s funny that you said that cause I never realize that , he was actually doing that it was intentional. I think I know something he does so I think I’ll let him know how it makes me feel and see if he changes like maybe he’ll be more cognizant of it. It’s interesting. I never thought about that my husband. so that was a really good share so thank you. I appreciate that Lucy.
Yes my mother and father. And brother and several friends and family.
All the ne s programs. They want to save the world and the USA. Good luck