Stop being so positive! | Can TOXIC POSITIVITY affect your mental health?

Can toxic positivity affect your mental health? Yes, it can lead to anxiety and depression. Stop being so positive because it can have negative effects on someone's emotional functioning. Toxic positivity can be harmful because it leads to invalidation of someone's emotions. Toxic positivity is not positive thinking, it is forced positivity. It is making someone focus on being positive when it is the not the best choice for them at that time. Toxic positivity culture is all over social media. The more you understand how it affects someone to force postivity, the more likely you will be to make changes.

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[kammiekidd]

Toxic positivity is also expecting that all mental illnesses are curable and you can live a normal happy life if you choose happiness despite the fact that so many mental illnesses are incurable and you can only really learn to cope with it better and medicate to balance chemicals as much as possible

[treatmenice]

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[lkimberly]

It always has- simplified either a group or person wants positive so they look at things through rose-colored glasses. It is worse now, people want "normal" and "good": and any form of that during current fears is accepted merely because it looks as if it is. Including how feelings and thoughts are affected by the disconnect and distrust which appears to be normal are accepted because that is 'what is allowed'.