How do you deal with people who only say negative things?

I think it is jealously and envy. I don't deal with them anymore, I just simply walk away.. I don't need that stuff.. I have a lot to deal with already.

I would not want to have anything to do with those kind of people. I think those people are full of personal insecurities in life and they try to hide it by walking all over other people. That's just pathetic. I wouldn't let anyone say nasty things to me without giving him a dose of his own medicine. Now if he went on and escalate the situation I will just walk away but only after I kicked his a**. lol Seriously though people who only say negative things are the saddest people on earth. My heart goes out to them. They need help.

It is always over jealousy and pettiness, which actually go hand-in-hand if you think about it. Jealousy is a petty emotion, because usually the thing that someone is jealous over is trivial and petty. I've had plenty of people be jealous of me, whether it was because I was more competent than they were, or if I was younger, or had more going for me, or whether it was because I going to school and getting my degree and they weren't, etc. When I encounter "Negative Nancies," as I call them, I flee. I don't give them the time of day. When they start asking me why I never come around anymore, I tell them flat out, "Look, you're always being negative. You never have anything nice to say about anyone or anything, and I'm sick and tired of you dragging me down into the abyss with you. I've told you before that you're making me depressed and I don't appreciate it, and yet you continued." Especiallyafter you have told them that their behavior/comments bother you and they continue, you need to cut them loose. I actually had one friend (no an ex-friend) insult me because of my going to school. She first tried insulting me by making fun of my intelligence. I showed her my unofficial transcript with straight A's to show her that just because I didn't care in high school doesn't mean I can't make it in college, and that I CAN better myself, and then she tried saying that I was concieted and full of myself. WTF? I told her if she's so unhappy that she isn't going to college, then she should go, but don't bother trying to insult me and get me down because she's unhappy with HER life. Then I told her to lose my phone number.