I saw "change your friends" and noped out. Toxic mindset. That is a key to isolation and an unhealthy, sad life. Makes him sound like a LinkedIn nutter.
If you are meth addict it would be unbelievably naive to think remaining friends with and hanging out with other meth addicts would do anything but hurt your quest to stop smoking meth. Better to be friendless than hooked on meth.
How is changing friends a toxic mindset? Changing friends means new friends, not no friends.
There is a reason they say you can judge a person by the company they keep.
Right but it solidifies a mindset that boils down to “instead of working to communicate with someone about a trait I deem problematic, it’s easier to simply replace that friend with someone else.”
“Friends”: a group of people who reinforce among themselves a particular worldview and the permissible behaviors that go with it