{"id":197,"date":"2022-03-08T02:36:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T02:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shacarah.com\/thefug\/?p=197"},"modified":"2022-03-08T02:48:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T02:48:41","slug":"toxic-positivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shacarah.com\/thefug\/blog-posts\/uncategorized\/toxic-positivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxic Positivity\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I saw this term today for the first time. I knew there had to be an appropriate term for this type of experience. I can\u2019t wait to tell someone they are being toxic the next time they try to act like the glass is full when it\u2019s clearly not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lol, \u201dinvalidation\u00a0of the authentic human emotional experience\u201d aka fake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>https:\/\/thepsychologygroup.com\/toxic-positivity\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe define toxic positivity as the excessive and ineffective overgeneralization of a happy, optimistic state across all situations. The process of toxic positivity results in the denial, minimization, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/drjamielong.com\/validation-5-things-not-to-say\/\">invalidation<\/a>&nbsp;of the authentic human emotional experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMinimizing other people\u2019s experiences with \u201cfeel good\u201d quotes or statements\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTrying to give someone perspective (e.g., \u201cit could be worse\u201d) instead of validating theiremotional experience\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShaming or chastising others for expressing frustration or anything other than positivity\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepsychologygroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Toxic-Positivity-Examples-of-non-toxic-and-accepting-statements-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\udd23 Toxic Positivity: Authentic human emotional experience shaming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 The fug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this term today for the first time. I knew there had to be an appropriate term for this type of experience. I can\u2019t wait to tell someone they are being toxic the next time they try to act like the glass is full when it\u2019s clearly not. Lol, \u201dinvalidation\u00a0of the authentic human emotional&#8230;<a class=\"read-more-link button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shacarah.com\/thefug\/blog-posts\/uncategorized\/toxic-positivity\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shacarah.com\/thefug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shacarah.com\/thefug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shacarah.com\/thefug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shacarah.com\/thefug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shacarah.com\/thefug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shacarah.com\/thefug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/www.shacarah.com\/thefug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shacarah.com\/thefug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shacarah.com\/thefug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shacarah.com\/thefug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}