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Toxic Positivity

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The word positivity itself means to have a positive attitude towards life, in other words, it means to have an optimistic way of approach of dealing with different situations that one can come across. It suggests identifying the negative aspects and making the best favorable outcome of it. A positive attitude also yields a healthy lifestyle. Its beneficial in many ways as positive thinking can result in reducing the amount of stress, depression it makes one better with the coping skills during times of hardship. One can work towards positive thinking by self-talk for instance. Instead of saying I have never done it and one can say, it's a great opportunity to learn something new, or another instance can be I am not confident enough do it, which can be replaced with I will give my best while doing it ( the trick is to remove the negative words like not, never, no ). One needs to be careful when one has an obsession with positive thinking. It turns out to be toxic. After all, everyth...