4 Common Manipulation Techniques Used By Toxic People

Different kinds of people will enter your life and not every one of them will have a positive impact on you. Unfortunately, there are people who will try to manipulate their way into your life just to make you feel self-doubting.

What’s even worse you may not even realize they have worked their way into your life.  This toxic person may be even someone who is very close to you like one of your best friends, a co-worker, a relative or your partner.

They have special manipulation techniques to control your life. If you become aware of some of these techniques it will become easier for you to break free from their manipulative spell. The following are some of the most popular ones:

• They find a way to make everything your fault.

No matter how hard you try, these people will always find a way to blame you. If you criticize a toxic person, they will probably respond with a harsh attack. This may continue in an infinite game throwing blame back and forth to each other.

• They knew you were going to do say that.

Another method of manipulation is when the toxic person says that they’ve got you all figured out. Everything you do is so predictable to them. You can figure this out if they often use the phrases “I don’t know why I should be surprised,” or “I knew you were going to say that,”. They do this to get into your head without using any logic.

• Making a word salad.

If they don’t want to answer questions they use this tactic. They would give long and complex explanations rather than just answering the question and giving a simple answer. They will only confuse you. To find out if someone is doing this to you just listen to what they are saying and see if they stay on one topic or talk about random topics that are unrelated to the conversation.

• The three stages of gaslighting.

Gaslighting is the process of manipulating another person to the point where they start questioning their own sanity. This process has three stages.

The first stage is the disbelief stage:

The toxic person does something to put their victim in an uncomfortable situation in order to make them enter the disbelief stage.

After the victim reacts to the strange behavior, the toxic individual will often tell them that they are”being over emotional.” or “acting crazy,”.

If this persists long enough the victim will actually start to believe that is acting crazy and overly emotional which eventually leads to the depression stage.

Source: www. higherperspective.com