‘Meeting in Riyadh’ Highlights Toxic Personalities

Kaleerehab held a dialogue meeting titled ‘Toxic and Harmful Personalities: How to Recognize Them?’ at its headquarters in the Cafe Life complex in Riyadh, presented by trainer Mohammed Hamza, attended by a number of people interested in psychological awareness and understanding patterns of human relationships.

The meeting discussed the concept of toxic and harmful personalities as one of the common concepts in social awareness and popular psychology, emphasizing the importance of dealing with it with cognitive caution and not turning it into a ready-made tool for judging others or labeling them psychologically. Hamza explained that some common terms may help to approximate the idea and understand behavior, but they are not necessarily accurate diagnostic terms, noting that psychological diagnosis has its scientific and professional pathways carried out by specialists according to specific criteria.

Trainer Mohammed Hamza explained during the meeting that psychological crises and behavioral changes may appear at different stages of life, including childhood, adolescence, maturity, middle age, and old age, which makes dealing with a person more complex than reducing them to a single description or definitive judgment. He also stressed the importance of distinguishing between having certain personality traits and having a full psychological disorder, as some individuals may exhibit narcissistic traits or harmful behaviors without necessarily having a personality disorder.

The meeting discussed the most prominent traits associated with harmful personalities, including psychological projection, emotional manipulation, constant doubt, and attempts to undermine others' self-confidence, indicating that these behaviors often stem not from real strength but from a mask of internal fragility, a desire for control, or an escape from self-confrontation.

Hamza also touched on the danger of binary thinking in relationships, which classifies people as only ‘toxic’ or ‘safe,’ emphasizing that human reality is broader than this sharp division, and that between black and white there are wide areas of color. Not every uncomfortable person is toxic, and not every non-harmful person deserves absolute trust; rather, most relationships require an awareness of distance, clear boundaries, and a careful reading of repeated behavior rather than fleeting impressions.

The meeting concluded by emphasizing that psychological awareness does not mean diagnosing others or chasing them with labels, but rather helps in understanding behaviors, protecting oneself from depletion, and building more mature and balanced relationships based on perception, boundaries, and the ability to distinguish between natural disagreement and repeated harm.