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Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental Health

E.44 When Being Positive Can Be Harmful: The Trouble With Toxic Positivity

Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental Health

Steve Bisson

Social Sciences, Psychology, Science, Mental Health, Honest, Self-improvement, Substance Use, Counseling, Health & Fitness, Education

5.021 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we discuss Toxic Positivity and how it can be harmful for our mental health. While having some positivity is helpful, but when we do it to avoid the negatives, not talking about the hard things, and how it can backfire. We discuss how it can teach you to suppress emotions. We also discuss possible solutions, including validation. Link to "Everything Is Awesome" Support the show YouTube Channel For The Podcast

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0:00.0

Hi and welcome to finding your way through therapy.

0:04.5

I am your host, Steve Bissan.

0:06.7

I'm an author and mental health counselor.

0:09.6

Are you curious about therapy?

0:11.7

Do you feel there is a lot of mystery about therapy?

0:14.6

Do you wonder what your therapist is doing and why?

0:17.5

The goal of this podcast is to make therapy and psychology accessible to all by using real language and straight to the point discussions.

0:24.5

This podcast wants to remind you to take care of your mental health, just like you would your physical health.

0:30.4

Therapy should not be intimidating. It should be a great way to better health.

0:34.6

I will demystify what happens in counseling, discuss topics related to mental

0:38.8

health and discussions you can have with your therapist. I also want to introduce psychology

0:43.4

in everyday life, as I feel most of our lives are enmeshed in psychology. I want to introduce

0:49.4

the subtle and not so subtle way psychology plays a factor in our lives. It will be my own mix of thoughts as well as special guests.

0:57.9

So join me on this discovery of therapy and psychology.

1:02.7

Hi and welcome to episode 44 of finding your way through therapy.

1:06.6

I am Steve Biso.

1:08.1

If you haven't listened to episode 43, I urge you to do so.

1:11.5

The episode was with Pat Rice.

1:13.3

Pat and I talked about so many different things, including his near-depth experience.

1:17.9

So I do hope you go back and listen to it.

1:19.6

It's really worth your time.

1:21.6

But on episode 44, we're going to talk about toxic positivity.

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