Whether in the couple relationship, at work or in the family, we have become sensitive to “red flags”, these revealing signals of potentially malicious or even toxic behavior in an interlocutor.
But... what about ourselves?
Whether we are aware of it or not, the way we interact with others can also, at times, cause unpleasant emotions, even hurt.
Recognizing it is not easy, but certain signs, certain situations make it possible to become aware of it.
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A dismissal
First of all, it is essential to grasp one element: apart from the rare clinical cases clearly listed and described by psychiatry, “toxicity” only exists in reality under the gaze of others.
Clearly, there is no toxic behavior "unless you are perverse, manipulative or deeply devious", informs Saverio Tomasella, psychoanalyst and doctor in psychopathology.
“If our words and our gestures can offend the other, it is because he…
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