Helping the Negative Person

Try as we might to keep a positive mental outlook, we are bound to mix it up with persons at work or home that have a constant negative attitude.

Nobody likes a negative person. Listening to complaints from someone with a
pessimistic, mud-slinging, doom and gloom attitude can drain your energy, push
your patience to the limit, and impact your mental and physical health.

If someone who's close to you is consistently negative, you'll want to do something to help them change their attitude. That's because you can see what they can't: that their comments and actions are negatively impacting their career and hurting their interpersonal relationships.

So what kind of things can we do?

• cut them some slack
• establish boundaries
• ask for clarification
• offer solutions
• don't get baited
• call them on it
• don't let it get to you
• remember negativity is contagious

Check out this website for more information on each of these coping mechanisms.