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Toxic POSITIVITY aka
good
vibes
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Why are you sad? Your thoughts, your problems, your sickness everything is in your head if you would just change your way of thinking you could be happy. Toxic positivity is #PositiveVibesOnly promoting the ideal or goal that, no matter scaping reality to be happy all the time can result in not knowing the circumstances, one how to deal with pain, how to build should always and only connections with people and how to develop yourself. Hiding negative maintain a positive, feelings and trying to ignore all problems and negative emotions can happy or optimistic be dangerous. In particular for people mindset. with a difficult childhood and youth, it can
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lead to chronic optimism, every problem is just smiled away. Sometimes it can extremize to an unhealthy behavior and it changes in a reality escape.
“Positivity- a state of mind that everybody wants to achieve. ‘The practice of being or tendency to be positive or optimistic in attitude’, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary book.” Being positive doesn’t mean to ignore bad experiences and difficulties. While trying to live in a positive way, it´s important to acknowledge problems, to learn from them, to use the new knowledge to improve yourself and grow. “Natalie Hendry from RMIT University's School of Media and Communication says social media is a breeding ground for toxic positivity, because the face-tuned picture-perfect lives can leave us feeling like we have to be happy — all the time.” Many people are aware of the lack of reality in social media. Often the selection of the pictures 10 - VOICES
