A negative attitude is somewhat contagious and if you spend time with someone who is constantly negative then you too will start to 
feel this way. It feels as if those we spend time with affect how we feel. But that’s not true really. You have full control over how you feel.
I had a friend who had a negative attitude, she was negative towards every aspect of her life. I started to dread her coming to visit, which sadly she did quite regularly. Nothing in her life was right and the whole world was against her.
I used to find myself down and depressed before she even arrived as I knew the day would be filled with a negative mood. She never had anything nice to say about anyone or anything. She was actually controlling my feelings as I would find myself in a negative mood too.
It was my husband who first noticed and used to tell me to stop her coming as when she did I would be in a bad mood for the rest of the day. I had not personally noticed it.
In the end it became so much of an issue that I had to speak out and tell her how her negative attitude was affecting my own life.
We remained friends and she remained negative yet I learned not to allow her negative attitude to affect me. I choose to challenge her negative thoughts and turn it around on her. She of course didn’t like this. In the end she actually saw where I was coming from, thankfully.
“If it bothers you that much “ I asked her “ The why don’t you do something about it?”
She looked at me as if I had two heads, she had never actually even bothered to think about this herself.
She was one of those people who would sit and moan the day away and surround herself with negative situations. She made the wrong choice in men to only end up in miserable relationships and eating the wrong kind of foods when she was trying to loose weight.
Her negative attitude was ugly. Was it any wonder she didn’t have many friends? She never had anything nice to say.
I don’t think she even knew how negative she was.
“Anything nice happened? ” I asked her one day “Have you not noticed when you come for coffee all we have to talk about is bad stuff?”
“Oh do we, I hadn’t noticed” she replied
Our friendship soon started to dwindle when I became ill with my own depression. I was far too busy challenging negative thoughts of my own to worry about hers. Her everyday moans were a far cry away from my own dark mood.
I heard she had met a new man and moved away. I saw a status on her daughters Facebook a few nights ago, she was talking to one of her friends and her friend had asked her why the sad face.
“Oh just my mum moaning on again” she replied, I had to laugh.
I guess this negative attitude is still the focus of her life, whereas thankfully I prefer to be a positive thinker.
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yes negative attitude is definately damaging to others but sometimes we cant see any other way. xx
Everyone is guilty of having a negative attitude at some point or another, if you haven’t I want to know why?? I know mine been rather bad last few weeks as nothing has gone right for me what so ever!! But now I am starting to look up as I after having a good long think about it by myself I know what I have to do to change it. There are some people out there though who cant and just need a nudge in the right direction from friends and family but not all of them have the friends and family to support them and show them how to change how they feel
Also if someone elses negative attitude its getting to you then that tells me that there is something in your life your not 100% happy with. You should allow anyone else to bring your mood down to their level after all its your life, your feeling no one else should determine how you think or feel in my opinion
I agree with mummy lala we all have negative times
Wouldn’t be human if we didn’t imo xx
u could b the happest person , but if someone is sad/gloomy ect around u then yes it will have a big impact on u , it does not mean u have a floor in urself that its picking up on :/ sorry but dont agree with this xx
i agree i’ve myself had this, no matter how happy u r (even if u’ve had some fab news ect) if someone is around u that is sad/glum ect then yes they will slowly dampen ur mood regardless , but i think it can also go the other way that if ur a but glum n see/vist someone all happy go lucky ect then they can up ur mood as well xx
Same can be said for any emotion. They tend to effect the ppl around th
us even stupid phone
Everything we do effects someone xxxx
Is Your Negative Attitude Damaging Others? http://t.co/IqTMQkNUzr
we all have our ups and downs but we cant be moaning biddies for 24 hours a day, no good for anyone x
I think everyone has some negativity in them at some point and yea it can run off on other people x