Are Your ‘Friends’ Bringing You Down? How to Detoxify Your Social Circle and Start Feeling the Good Vibes
<p>We all have that “friend.”</p>
<p>You know, the kind that leaves you feeling drained and deflated every time you talk.</p>
<p>The one who never seems happy for your success, or who always needs to one-up your struggles with their own.</p>
<p>The perpetual victim, the constant complainer, the fair-weather flyer.</p>
<p>This so-called “friend” who seems to suck the life right out of you.</p>
<p><strong>I’m here to tell you something important: you don’t have to put up with it anymore.</strong></p>
<h1>I learned this lesson the hard way.</h1>
<p>I had a friend — let’s call her Debbie (Downer)— who was never satisfied with anything in her own life.</p>
<p>Somehow that meant I couldn’t be satisfied with mine either.</p>
<p>She’d belittle my accomplishments, complain about my optimistic attitude, and otherwise try to drag me down to her level of discontent.</p>
<p>After years of letting her negativity seep into me, I finally realized our “friendship” had become toxic.</p>
<p><strong>And you know what?</strong></p>
<p>Ditching her was the best thing I ever did for my mental health.</p>
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