Oct 4, 2019
4 min read
The Cure for Toxic Positivity
‘Hang in there!’ can do more harm than good
When my dad was diagnosed with colon cancer at age 52, I was flooded with emails, calls, and in-person pep talks from friends and acquaintances. Anyone who’d ever met me, it seemed, was eager to offer up a platitude. “Think positive,” they told me. “It will be okay. He’ll get through this.”
