I have a friend who fits RB's description of someone under neg influence. She is often angry and hostile, falls out with everyone, walks into a crowded place and people look at her with dislike instantly and start making rude comments. Life of strife and ending up with bad friends and partners since childhood. I am not sure this person would respond well to reading RB, they are open minded but I am not sure they would put the effort in. And they might be offended. It's a big part of her identity that the problem is with everyone else and people react badly to her because they can sense she is special and a rebel (this is a conservative-dressing middle aged woman not a teen punk btw). How do you help people you think might have a shadow in their life?