Dealing With Toxic People From Narcissists and Manipulators

‘Toxic Shaming

When toxic people can’t manipulate you, they resort to unhealthy shaming in order to instill a sense of fear, obligation, and guilt about you being an independent person with different opinions preferences, needs and desires.  Chronic shaming lowers our self-esteem.  Research indicates that both men and women who have their self-esteem lowered, are more agreeable and compliant to the requests of others (Walster 1965; Gudjonsson and Sigurdsson 2003).  

Excerpt From Book By, Author, Shahida Arabi, MA, The Highly Sensitive Person’s Guide To Dealing With Toxic People, pg. 81′