Toxic Friends

By: Bambi

What is a toxic friend? Why do they put me down and hurt my feelings all the time? Do they even want to be my friend, or do they just want to make fun of me? I’m afraid to leave them, what if they start to talk about me?

If you have a toxic friend, you may or may not know it, if you do know it I would say, get rid of them right away. A toxic friend is someone you don’t want to be around, they constantly put you down no matter what you say about it, they are hard to get away from. They always have a reason to make you feel bad about yourself, but the thing is, sometimes it can be scary to get rid of them because you don’t know what they are going to say about you. 

You need to surround yourself with good, fun, loving friends that you actually want to hang out with, you need a friend that you can rely on and trust with your secrets. 

The thing about toxic friends is that they will make you do things, like tell you, “you can’t hang out with her”, or “Ew why are you talking to her, stop she’s annoying.”. They will tell you all these things and you will listen because you are afraid of them and you don’t want to say no, they will say all these things, and you will do all these things, to the point where you turn out to be like them. 

Some things you need to do to address the situation is, tell a trusted guardian or teacher because they know what to do and they can help. Another thing you can do is you can help yourself, tell them to stop, tell them that you don’t like the way they are treating you and others. If these things don’t work tell their parents, their parents will either tell them to stop, or not care, but most likely they will help because they wouldn’t want their kid to act out and be rude to other people. 

Make sure you stay away from people with bad attitudes or people that are just rude, because you deserve better, you deserve a good healthy friendship.