If you dish back what a toxic person gives you, be prepared to be cast as the villain in their story. You see, toxic people condition you to believe the problem isn’t the abuse itself, but instead the problem is your reaction to their abuse. It is gaslighting and crazymaking at it’s finest. And this kind of person is the same one who will stab you, then turn around and tell the world that they are the one who’s bleeding.
While toxic people are master manipulators, they also believe their own bullshit. So, if you do give a toxic person a taste of their own medicine in the hopes of helping them see how they are being hurtful, they likely won’t see it at all. They will see themselves as the victim and you as the abuser.
My advice for dealing with a toxic person is don’t give them a taste of their own medicine, no matter how tempting it might be.
Stephanie Lyn Coaching has a great video on how to effectively respond to a toxic person that you can check out here:
