Toxic Relationship Effecting Your Mental Health

 

Although this post is all about the ways that toxic relationships can impact mental health, they can also negatively affect your physical health.

 Toxic relationships affect mental health in a number of negative ways, and it is critical that teens name these toxic relationships and disengage themselves from them.

How Toxic Relationship Effects Your Mental Health:

 More importantly, prolonged toxic relationships can cause lasting, negative effects to our mental health, making us feel unworthy or unimportant. Toxic people and relationships are some of the biggest things that can affect your mental health.

Most people are aware when they are in an unfavorable relationship with someone, but for some, toxicity may be so prevalent it starts to feel normal. Yet many people who are healthy also fail to recognize that the quality of their relationships may be just as toxic to their health as fast food or toxic environments. Many who are in unhealthy relationships are in denial, even though friends or family members may see the warning signs and tell them so. 

There are a lot of reasons why people stay in unhealthy relationships, but a common reason is the low self-esteem underlying it, which causes some to feel that they do not deserve to get better.

In reality, unhealthy relationships may be contributing to a toxic inner environment, which may contribute to stress, depression, anxiety, and even health problems. Toxic relationships can lead to feelings of low self-esteem, powerlessness, fear, anxiety, depression, uncertainty, paranoia, and even narcissism. 

People who have psychiatric disorders, like bipolar disorder, major depression, or even tendencies toward depression, can be especially vulnerable to toxic relationships because people with mental illnesses are already sensitive to negative emotions. Any relationship that makes you feel worse about yourself rather than better about yourself may grow toxic over time.

A toxic person or relationship often makes you feel worse overall, or worse about yourself. By identifying and ending the relationship that has become toxic, you are definitively saving yourself from those effects.

Maybe its time to cut-off:

 For many of us, it may be hard to recognize when a relationship has become toxic; however, if someone is treating you harshly, is manipulative, is constantly critiquing you, or is emotionally abusive, it might be time to cut this relationship out of your life. One of the most important things that teens can do to protect themselves and their mental health is acknowledge toxic issues within the relationship, and address them, or leave the relationship.

You don't feel happy anymore!

Conclusion:

Similar to toxic foods or drinks, which can harm our physical health, toxic relationships also can impact our mental and physical health, and can warrant psychiatric evaluation.

 While every relationship goes through highs and lows, a toxic relationship is one that is constantly uncomfortable and draining to those involved, to the point where the negative moments are more frequent and more numerous than the positive ones, says Glass.

 If the relationship stops being joyful, instead constantly making you feel sad, angry, anxious, or resigned, as though you are selling out, Glass says, it might be toxic.