Happy Washing Is Better Than Toxic Positivity

Happy washing is when people try to force you into a state of happiness, or performative happiness. The psychology group defines toxic positivity as the excessive and ineffective over generalization of a happy, optimistic state across all situations. It results in the denial, minimization and invalidation of the authentic human emotional experience. We were talking about these completely original dea that we'd had for a while. And then i started thinking, this sounds familiar. Roe said, wait a second. We're talking about something that literally, literally everyone discusses on line, yes, called toxic positivity. But the word, the phrase, happy washing, it's much better. It's imanadona