What did we do:
- Toxic relationships during adolescence can lead to lasting health problems, including mental health struggles and substance use in adulthood.
- We need to be listeners, Real friendship talks respectfully even though you need to compromise.
- You should make you feel great about yourself
8 side effects in toxic relationships
1. Make you more guarded,( you guard your feelings with a wall) warier, and more suspicious of others,
2. Breed negativity, You can not be happy as you feel like there is a dark rain cloud following you wherever you go, constantly feeling down, and in a bad mood because negative emotions can be contagious and may rub off on you
3. Make you more pessimistic, anxious, fearful, and cynical, toxic relationships can alter your views in life even after they have ended
4. Emotionally exhausts you, emotional drainage because so much time and energy is spent catering to the other person at your expense. It is like you have climbed a mountain, but all you did was spend time with someone.
5. Toxic relationships destroy your self-esteem, you lose confidence in yourself and are constantly denied the love, support, and reassurance you deserve, and struggle to feel a sense of self-worth.
6. Toxic rel. hinder your personal growth
7. It distorts your idea of healthy relationships, it convinces you that you deserve it, This results in you seeking similarly harmful and dysfunctional relationships, over this harmful setting is normalised
8. They negatively affect your entire health, your immune system, lower energy and fatigue, high blood pressure, and even heart problem
Reflection: 📚Sometimes, We give more order to our young one, instead of having a conversation
Be of service to each other
Provide positive affirmations to our young people
Love, care, and nature