How to deal with people that are bad mouthing me?

I would suggest to focus on your mental peace and trying to ignore that. Our time and energy is limited. Let's spend it on those endeavors which will help us grow and ignore the rest. Not all battles has to be won. Some are only for practice. Pick your battles wisely. There is no point in dealing with such people. Give your million dollar smile and move on. Do not react. Do not respond. Let them have their moment and move on. All they want is a reaction from you. Be a better person and do not react at all.

remember that you can control your response when someone does or says something mean. The most effective response to meanness is compassion but Take care of your own pain first. See mean people for what they really are—wounded and tiny and probably threatened. Finally, fight fire with water by sending loving thoughts to the people who hurt you. After all, it is only when mean people actually are happy and free from suffering that they will stop trying to take us down with them. It' awful when people are mean but we control our responses to external bullying. Thanks!

Apologise that they feel this way and tell them that if they dont stop bad mouthing me, you are ending the call as you dont deserve to be spoken to in this manner. Also ask them if you can help in any way, you will try your best as long as they stop bad mouthing you. I'd you cant help them then just apologise and tell them you will try and find someone who can or you will look on google for some added help and assistance. Or another option is to give them some numbers that they can phone. For example, crisis team

Try to understand what could be the root of why they are bad mouthing you. There could be something they are dealing with internally that could be messing with their own self esteem and they may be taking it out on you. A way to deal with it is to take every bad thing they may say about you and write an affirmation to combat it. I find it helpful to write down both the insult and the compliment so you can physically cross out the negativity. Also if this person was a friend, trying to talk to them about where this is coming from. If they are not receptive, its time to move on.

This may take a 2-step approach. First, it is often a good idea to refute any untrue information or to reframe true information that is used against you, particularly if this is done in front of an audience. While this might not particularly reduce verbal bullying, it will send the message that you aren't afraid of them, and let others who are listening know they are only hearing one side of the story. If others see you letting others tell lies about you, they may start to think the lies are true. It is like being in court. You don't have to take the stand in court in your own defense, but not doing so may convince the jury that you are guilty (even when the judge instructs them to disregard that). The problem with certain lies being told about you is that they can put your life or safety at risk. So you are speaking up to discourage others from bullying as well. Using comebacks can be good or bad, depending on the circumstances. Comebacks can provoke the bully into physical aggression, so it is wise if you use comebacks to use ones that elevate yourself or even the other person than those that only fuel the fire. The other thing to do is to become stronger as a person and realize that these are just words and are not you. In fact, you could see this as evidence that you are important, since why would they spend so much time and energy on you if you truly had no worth? You could use being called names as a way to feel alive since you are proving to yourself that you can endure a lot.

Gossip is such an hard thing to counteract because you are being talked about behind your back. When this has happened to me (and I imagine that there is no one who hasn't had it happen at some point in their life) I first figure out what I might have done to cause someone to feel angry at me. Then, if I can find out where the gossip started, I approach the person directly (if I feel safe doing so I will speak to them in private, otherwise I will have people with me that will listen without judging either of us) and ask them why they so angry with me. If I think that I have in some way hurt them (with words or ideas) I will apologize. If not I will try to have a conversation about the reason(s) for my behavior(s). As far as I know this has only happened in my professional capacity as a registered nurse and so it was part of my job as a manager to make some decisions that not everyone was happy about but I always tried to listen and understand why a person or persons were upset with me.

There's a psychological trick to help interrupt someone who is doing that to your face, and that is to compliment them. It's hard to be mean to someone who is being nice, and it's almost a way of calling them out. This can apply in wider situations as well, say only nice things about the person. When people notice the difference in rhetoric between the two of you, they'll likely start to favor yours over theirs and put less weight into what the other is saying. Additionally, the impact of insulting someone who is being nice degrades the character of the person who is doing the insulting. It makes them look bad, makes you look good, and forces them to think about how they're behaving.

Communicating your feelings directly should be a decent start. We don't know how to deal with negative opinions that we may have about people or things we don't like to deal with. Gossip is an unavoidable aspect of life, though it should be used to learn about one another not to garner information second hand. Because you really can't know for yourself unless you find out by the source of the bad mouthing. Ask the people about the comments and why they came about, and see if there is any merit to what was said. So ask about the gossip or you won't know the reasoning behind it. Many times we allow molehills to become mountains. Basically i have no idea, and please let me know if you figure it out. Thanks!

dont care about them. they dont deserve your precious time. just let them be. people try to let you down because you are ahead of them. They are confused, small, insecure people who can only feel good about themselves by badmouthing others. However, don’t pity them, it’s not one of those cases. Even if you move away, they will find a new victim. In a way, this whole thing is not even about you. It’s about a very sad attempt to look cooler than someone else. Don’t adjust your life based on what other people think of you. Try establishing a meeting point with another co-worker and going to work together every morning, if you don’t feel safe.

When people bad mouth me, I think it is important to first help them see the damage their words have caused me. Right away, I might ask them how they think I feel about it. Then, using "I" language, I would gently explain the emotions and feelings that their words have stirred in me. I would point out specific phrases that they said and ask that they refrain from this kind of talk. If met with continued hostility, I might seek out a 3rd party, or a means to block the offending people from my life. In all this, I would seek community support to help me deal with these negative emotions, either directly or indirectly.