HAD ENOUGH OF PEOPLE WHO DISMISS YOUR EXPERIENCE BY TELLING YOU TO BE POSITIVE

I'm not exactly pissed.  But I think I have to give up a friendship.  I feel like screaming You Are Not Hearing Me.  I realize only the most superficial and untrusting relationship with her is possible because when I tell her what I'm thinking and feeling - and why - she usually gives me a dose of Toxic Positivity.

I wonder if she has had a life sheltered from similar problems.

MUKUNDA ANGULO's TED TALK HOW MY IMAGINATION SET ME FREE

A really interesting talk by a man who, with his siblings, spent years confined in an apartment.

Their story became the documentary film THE WOLFPACK.