Do you have a positive mentality?

[jimharri]

No. I tend to err on the pessimistic side of life, rather than the optimistic side.

#glasshalfempty

 

[mosssideblue]

I've always had a positive outlook, even when faced with travesty.

 

[Barcon]

Life's a woman for the eternal fatalist.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Yes but sadly Covid has seen off the lives of people suffering badly with mental health.
Simply put a lot of people haven't been able to cope.

That is likely to be true, although I’ve heard this comment a lot but haven’t actually seen if suicide rates have gone up in the last year.

 

[Cityisland]

I have a positive outlook but life has made me cynical. I'm very suspicious and thats everyone else's fault, not mine.

Be nice. Don't be a ****..

 

[BLUEMATT23]

That is likely to be true, although I’ve heard this comment a lot but haven’t actually seen if suicide rates have gone up in the last year.

Apparently they have but its not been spoken about much.
I live alone and I've found it very hard, it's all well and good people who are married and have children etc saying to people stay positive etc but not everyone is fortunate enough to have a partner or have children to help them get by.
Single men are treated shambolicly in this country.

 

[mccity]

Positivity is a choice, and it'd be welcoming if more people were educated from a younger age about the power of that choice.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Apparently they have but its not been spoken about much.
I live alone and I've found it very hard, it's all well and good people who are married and have children etc saying to people stay positive etc but not everyone is fortunate enough to have a partner or have children to help them get by.
Single men are treated shambolicly in this country.

I live alone n’all. I’ve also suffered with depression at times in my life.

It took someone to say to me what I say to other people now; don’t let depression dictate your attitude and actions to you. Fair enough, it can affect your mood, but look above the depression and see the bigger picture and realise there are positives to be had with everything.

That made me understand it better, but what changed my life the most was getting healthy. Feeding yourself with things your body and brain needs, and exercising to get rid of fat it doesn’t need, the nutrients I’m absorbing and the fitness I’ve got to has altered my brain! I now barely ever have any pessimism about anything in my life and it’s like I’ve never suffered with depression, it’s like those years battling through never happened.

 

[Two Gun Bob]

An optimist coming through the birth canal then metamorphosing into a born again pessimist having journeyed through life's sabbatical. I walk into a shop and pick up a consumable of any descriptor, then stop dead in my tracks and go back for another as I know I have picked up the faulty one. Rinse repeat three times before landing at the tills.

When I get home mine is still the screwed up one and I have just learned to accept that this is the way it must always be. However I do carry an air of optimism in my trews pocket for special occasions and sometime we can both be spectacularly successful. But then I sigh a deep sigh whilst relating back to the wise words of Frank !

That's life
(That's life)
That's what all the people say
You're riding high in April, shot down in May
But I know I'm gonna change that tune
When I'm back on top, back on top in June

 

[Chippy_boy]

Yes I do,. massively. My glass is overflowingly full not half full.

The Mrs however has a glass not half empty but completely empty, with a crack in it and a smear of shit on the side.

Her loss. I long since realised that being happy in life is actually a choice. You can choose to be happy or choose to be miserable. It's up to you.

That's not to say we don't all have setbacks and problems and upsets - traumatic sometimes. But how you deal with these and come out the other side is very largely in your own hands.