Toxic Positivity

This is an extremely important book to read. There are some topics which I found very difficult to relate to and I could only reflect how deep is the need for me to feel positive that I can't think of any other way. That said, I still think that the author is being quite forceful with the notion of the prevalent positivity causing harm. I suppose this is because the “need” to see positivity in everything is so ingrained in our psyche that we need a strong forceful argument in opposition. To be fair, the author does include caveats and calls to context but they are few. Only in the last section do I feel that there was a balanced contrast between toxic positivity and balanced positivity.

I have written a more elaborate review on my blog at http://blog.husainad.com/toxic-positivity-by-whitney-goodman/.