It was just as newly-announced lockdown measures meant I couldn’t see my family that weekend, and just as a news alert on my phone told me we’d reached the highest number of COVID-19 cases in a single day since the outbreak began. But, you know, PMA (Positive Mental Attitude) and all.
Positivity has found itself in a place of omnipotence in 21st-century thinking. Every scroll through social media is met with #PositiveVibes, or a motivational quote etched in pastel calligraphy and flanked by peonies. The shops are full of manuals to help us ‘get over’ our struggles and clothes adorned with clichéd slogans about #Goals. But when depression, anxiety, and negative thinking threaten to swallow us whole, how helpful is the pressure to stay positive? Have we guzzled so many #PositiveVibes that we’re now greedily choking to death on factory-farmed happiness? And if so, at what cost?
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