What do you do when someone tries to bring you down and make you feel small?

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It is called the crab pot effect. If one of the crabs is trying to escape the po, the others will actually try to pull it back. Maybe they are using it to try to pull them out as well.?
They see you as happy and for some reason they are not. They are either in a bad situation or for some reason, or they do not feel good about themselves and they want you to feel like them.
Either way try to spend as little time with people who affect you negatively ( sometimes we can't avoid it) and move on to people and things that affect you positively. DO NOT CHANGE YOURSELF TO MEET THEIR NEEDS. Here is a prayer I have kept in my wallet for 15+ years.
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”