Five Traits of the Toxic Personality

The toxic personality both inhibits and undervalues others. It’s not a clinical category as such, nor is it a diagnosis, but it’s a profile that includes well-defined features, making it possible to differentiate it from others. The toxic person performs actions that inhibit or belittle others. They don’t always do this directly or explicitly. In fact, they sometimes do it in an extremely subtle way so that those around them end up feeling bad about themselves or putting themselves on the sidelines, without really knowing how or why it’s happened. The toxic person doesn’t always strictly correspond to a diagnosis…