Here’s why you don’t have to stay positive all the time
When positivity is pushed to an extreme, it becomes toxic
Toxic positivity is a tendency to react to our own or others' suffering with reductive statements of positivity. (Photo: Pixabay) This TEDx video is about societal standards, and how they are making us stay positive all the time. It can be toxic.
“Millions of people across the world are suffering in silence. According to WHO, today, depression is the leading cause of disability. One in four people suffer from mental illness and 50 per cent of these mental illnesses start at age 14.
“Mental health is not a continuum, it is not black and white. A Harvard psychologist did research with over 70,000 people and she found that third of us either judge ourselves for having so called bad emotions like anger, grief or sadness; or, we actively try to push those feelings aside. We also do this to the people we love. When positivity is pushed to an extreme, it is toxic, and psychologists have started to call that ‘toxic positivity’.
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