TP= Toxic parasite or toilet paper, either way, both are known for their proximity to shit

The usual reaction to being exposed to toxic individuals or toxic environments is a flight response, it’s the unease you feel in certain places or in certain people’s presence. However not everyone is so inclined. Certain people instead are attracted to such people or environments. Instead of feeling like they need to flee, they are drawn to it. As if willfully getting caught in a black hole’s point of no return. They are aware of the dark pit that they face but choose to be trapped in its orbit anyway, despite knowing the end result is them spreading themselves so thin that they almost disappear. People like this are called toxic parasites. 

Like the cursed humans in all those documentaries made in the early parts of the 21st century, the ones craving blood. So too is the Toxic Parasite (TP); instead of craving blood they crave toxicity. Toxicity is all they know, it is their comfort place. Their warped minds believing toxicity to be the right way of things. 

If a TP is in close proximity to a nontoxic person, they tend to provoke that person to illicit a toxic response. When a TP is in a nontoxic environment they tend to instigate conflict between nontoxic individuals in that environment in order to feed off of the toxic chaos produced. It needs to be said that the toxic parasite often escapes these situations unharmed and without blame. 

                                                                     Toxic Individual vs Toxic Parasite

All Toxic Individuals are Toxic Parasites, not all Toxic Parasites are Toxic Individuals. For certain TP’s its nurture instead of nature. It is not in their nature to be toxic, instead the toxicity they were exposed to nurtured in them a detrimental attraction to it. One they are not consciously aware about. Therefor certain people always tend to end up in another toxic relationship when fleeing one. It’s because unbeknownst to them they can only find toxicity attractive. They are on what is known as the toxic treadmill also known as the circular escalator. They can run as fast as they can but it won’t lead them anywhere, instead they remain in similar toxic situations. 

It is easy to identify whether or not you are a TP. Just ask yourself the question ‘were I in more than one toxic situation’? If yes, then follow up with ‘were they almost the same’? If yes again, then chances are more than likely you are a toxic parasite. Similarly it is as easy to tell whether or not someone you know is a TP. Just ask yourself whether you ever were in a fight, but just before the fight they supported you, during the fight they were nowhere to be seen and after the fight they stood there just as an innocent bystander. If you know someone like that, than most likely that person is a toxic parasite.   

When dealing with a TP in your midst it’s easy to neutralize them, just identify them and make them and others aware. Generally the TP will be isolated and in isolation a TP poses no threat. When you are in a relationship with a TP and ending it is not an option, simply being conscious of the TP’s ulterior motives and pointing it out to the TP will give them pause. There is nothing a TP hates more than being discovered, they would prefer to cause chaos and remain uncaught. 

 If you think you might be a TP, and you feel like toxicity keeps pulling you in. Remember toxicity is like condensed well of negativity, sucking up everyone that gets to close, in the process suppressing your light. Light is the only counterbalance to toxicity, so if you can’t leave the situation at the speed of light. Just let a little bit escape, even a little can light your way out.