I can't claim credit for coming up with it, I'm afraid! The bolded text is a link that explains the concept and what it looks like. It's a very unhealthy impulse that I had to unlearn.
Re: "toxic positivity": I thought it meant what it does mean in the article you linked to. "Where positive thinking becomes toxic is when it is expected to get rid of negative feelings. It can be presented as a demand that we must be positive at the expense of other feelings."
This is what I've experienced in the past but never had a name to put for. It is quite comforting to know that if people are constantly advising you to think positively when to you your life looks like crap you can understand there is something noxious about that.
I like your term "toxic positivity". I think I'll find opportunities to use that
I can't claim credit for coming up with it, I'm afraid! The bolded text is a link that explains the concept and what it looks like. It's a very unhealthy impulse that I had to unlearn.
Re: "toxic positivity": I thought it meant what it does mean in the article you linked to. "Where positive thinking becomes toxic is when it is expected to get rid of negative feelings. It can be presented as a demand that we must be positive at the expense of other feelings."
This is what I've experienced in the past but never had a name to put for. It is quite comforting to know that if people are constantly advising you to think positively when to you your life looks like crap you can understand there is something noxious about that.