The Importance of Toxic Positivity

Toxic positivity is where you suppress the negative emotion and deny that anything bad has happened. A 2013 study by the Harvard School of Public Health showed people who suppress their emotions increased the risk of premature death from all causes by more than 30%. And this applies whether you are, quote, a single mother with three kids, or a bin man struggling to make ends meet. It's like those ads, these ads, the Get Rich Quick Ads on the Internet, the single mother with one leg was homeless now she earns 10,000 by the week.