Pathologizing Our Own Humanity

📺️ Why toxic positivity is making us miserable When I got cancer, people often told me that everything happens for a reason, and what they meant was that I will learn important lessons that will eventually enrich my life if it doesn’t kill me. But some things happen for no good reason. Sometimes in life we have to step up to the edge of the great mystery and in the face of mystery we can’t always say, we will know why. If we don’t have a wider range than a toxic positivity, we threaten to stigmatize negative emotions and then eventually start to pathologize our own humanity. 📺️ Why Doing Nothing Feels Illegal Now …the thing is you’re probably not that bad at focusing. It’s just that you’ve been psychologically waterboarded by notifications since approximately 2009… Schopenhauer had this observation that human beings basically oscillate perpetually between desire and boredom. And that when we’re not frantically chasing something, we are miserable from the wanting. But then when we…