Positivity Toxic

There are many things that have to be concerned by us, especially me as a teenager. Like poverty, climate change, or any kind of big issues that probably can changes the face of the entire world in the future. But i think, there is one issue that really self-changing, it is mental health. In Indonesia, mental health is one of rarely-to-be-talked issue, most of Indonesian are still thinking that this issue is not a damage thing and seeing this as a not really important thing. In fact we can find many cases of suicide because they have no mental health. By those cases we ought get any hint like how deep they probably keep their sadness and how much trouble they might have. So we should not mock their suicide, we should be more empathic! Actually, one of mental health issue that have to be concerned is positivity toxic.

Positivity toxic is an excessive over generalization of a happy or optimistic state across all situations. A person with this mentality is often deny every negative vibes and accept only positive vibes. This may sounds usual but is we keep this furthermore, it'll break teenagers social caring. For example, when a teenager have to be a listener for a friend with a problem. Instead of giving them solutions or calming them down, they often blame of how ungrateful them because there are people with more hectic problems out there and the worst thing is if they blame their faithness. This mentality phenomenon may also kill their self loving and emotions controlling because they keep their sadness to be seen as a happy person, i mean 'a positive person'.

"Be positive thinking!"

"Oh, just be patient"

"You may have less worship"

"Positive vibes only"

The reason why positivity toxic may cause a worse problem is that a mentality phenomenon like positivity toxic can build an apathetic self personality which will ignore any kind of social problems and wants only the final result without wanting to solve anything. This also killing teenagers creativity and socialization ability because all they want is only the simple way and if these two things getting faded, today's teenagers will only be a useless ragtag. I personally really want to change this because a bad mentality like this wants to see only one side, besides, we have to compare both sides of positive and negative to make a better decision for a better next movement. The little step that you can take is to be a good listener then advice them even by the thing that they may have known it. It is better to response them like, "it's okay to be sad now, let's find the way to solve this".

So, the main point is, express your emotions well because the positives may not be good and the negatives may not be bad.