A thread for Ashliana

[Parkbandit]

I fear we may have pushed him too far... he's been having quite the meltdown over the course of a month.

This thread is for only positive messages for Ashliana and wishing him a speedy recovery.

[Ashliana]

"Look how not obsessed with Ashliana I am!"

Aww. Did someone hurt your fee-fees just a tad too much? I know you've been upset since the Mango Mussolini's unceremonious exit from office, but you'll come to terms with it eventually.

[Methais]

I fear we may have pushed him too far... he's been having quite the meltdown over the course of a month.

This thread is for only positive messages for Ashliana and wishing him a speedy recovery.

https://theawesomedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/you-can-do-it-meme-2-1.jpeg

[Methais]

Aww. Did someone hurt your fee-fees just a tad too much? I know you've been upset since the Mango Mussolini's unceremonious exit from office, but you'll come to terms with it eventually.

See, look how quickly you took an uplifting positive thread and turned it into toxic waste.

I am very disappointed in you. You need to be more positive. This is a thread for positivity, after all.

Let's try again. You can do it!

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[Ashliana]

See, look how quickly you took an uplifting positive thread and turned it into toxic waste.

I am very disappointed in you. You need to be more positive. This is a thread for positivity, after all.

Let's try again. You can do it!

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https://media2.giphy.com/media/3o6EhQcCZmb1dMg3ug/source.gif

Aww. What happened to your feigned concern about the "peacefulness" and "toxic-free" nature of the forum? You were almost a tenth of the way to convincing someone who, somehow, hasn't met you despite your tens of thousands of posts!

[Methais]

Aww. What happened to your feigned concern about the "peacefulness" and "toxic-free" nature of the forum? You were almost a tenth of the way to convincing someone who, somehow, hasn't met you despite your tens of thousands of posts!

See, all you want to do is be toxic and negative and prove me right.

It's time for some more positivity in your life. Stop proving me correct.

Perhaps you just need to learn more about positivity. Here is a scientific explanation of the power of positivity:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHM46DemTRY

Pay attention. You can do it buddy!

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[Ashliana]

No fair! Pointing out my hypocrisy on toxicity is toxic! HELP ME, PARKBANDIT!

It's okay, Methais. You'll figure out a way to shitpost that doesn't contradict itself someday.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.mp4

[Methais]

It's okay, Methais. You'll figure out a way to shitpost that doesn't contradict itself someday.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.mp4

This is a positive thread. You should stop being toxic.

Why so toxic?

Be toxic in that thread over there ------------------------------->

But in this thread...

https://media0.giphy.com/media/UqpjszfpiOiLA0L5le/giphy.gif

I know you can do it!

[Ashliana]

This is a positive thread. You should stop being toxic.

Why so toxic?

Be toxic in that thread over there ------------------------------->

But in this thread...

https://media0.giphy.com/media/UqpjszfpiOiLA0L5le/giphy.gif

I know you can do it!

It's okay, Methais. You'll figure out a way to shitpost that doesn't contradict itself someday.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Methais]

It's okay, Methais. You'll figure out a way to shitpost that doesn't contradict itself someday.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

Why so toxic? This is a positive thread.

You must be very miserable. You are clearly in dire need of the power of positivity.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvQvE3aQQic

[Ashliana]

Why so toxic? This is a positive thread.

You must be very miserable. You are clearly in dire need of the power of positivity.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvQvE3aQQic

It's great that you're totally okay with you being a transparent hypocrite. You throwing away what (nonexistent) credibility you had was an interesting choice, but thanks for the link to this thread I'll just post at you in every subsequent thread where you freak out and start hysterically crying about the "toxicity" that other people, who aren't you, cause. Thanks. :)

[Methais]

It's great that you're totally okay with you being a transparent hypocrite. You throwing away what (nonexistent) credibility you had was an interesting choice, but thanks for the link to this thread I'll just post at you in every subsequent thread where you freak out and start hysterically crying about the "toxicity" that other people, who aren't you, cause. Thanks. :)

Look how toxic you're being.

You are being very toxic.

You should be less toxic.

And be more positive.

You can start by listening to this very uplifting positive music:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RphB1Ex9bIA

[Ashliana]

Look how toxic you're being.

You are being very toxic.

You should be less toxic.

And be more positive.

You can start by listening to this very uplifting positive music:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RphB1Ex9bIA

It's okay, Methais. You'll figure out a way to shitpost that doesn't contradict itself someday.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Methais]

It's okay, Methais. You'll figure out a way to shitpost that doesn't contradict itself someday.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif




You should be more positive. I'm starting to think that you're just a miserable person.

Let's fix that with some positive easy listening music.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqnC54vbUbU

https://media4.giphy.com/media/l0ErFafpUCQTQFMSk/200.gif

[Ashliana]

You should be more positive. I'm starting to think that you're just a miserable person.

Let's fix that with some positive easy listening music.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqnC54vbUbU

https://media4.giphy.com/media/l0ErFafpUCQTQFMSk/200.gif

It's okay, Methais. You'll figure out a way to shitpost that doesn't contradict itself someday.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Methais]

It's okay, Methais. You'll figure out a way to shitpost that doesn't contradict itself someday.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

Are you saying you don't want to be positive? Why do you embrace negativity and toxicity so much?

I do hope that this helps you to become a less miserable person.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74A-biLm_rQ

[Ashliana]

Are you saying you don't want to be positive? Why do you embrace negativity and toxicity so much?

I do hope that this helps you to become a less miserable person.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74A-biLm_rQ

It's okay, Methais. You'll figure out a way to shitpost that doesn't contradict itself someday.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[caelric]

Come on, Ashy-poo. Be happy for once.

[Ashliana]

Come on, Ashy-poo. Be happy for once.

Low effort, as always. D for execution.

[caelric]

Please be happy, Ashy-poo. We're all worried about you.

[Ashliana]

Please be happy, Ashy-poo. We're all worried about you.

Ouch, even worse. F for the derivative concept, D- for execution. You're on a roll!

[Neveragain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3HQMbQAWRc

[Neveragain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN3wEdK_vxw

[Parkbandit]

Aww. What happened to your feigned concern about the "peacefulness" and "toxic-free" nature of the forum? You were almost a tenth of the way to convincing someone who, somehow, hasn't met you despite your tens of thousands of posts!

Normally, I would point out your obvious jealousy over post counts.. given you bring it up very often... but this is a thread to help you through this obviously very difficult time in your life.. so I won't.

This is a thread to get you the encouragement you really need. Positivity is the answer to all your negativity!

https://readingartlab.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/artlab_kindness-gif-2_-jennifer.gif

[Bhaalizmo]

I fear we may have pushed him too far... he's been having quite the meltdown over the course of a month.

This thread is for only positive messages for Ashliana and wishing him a speedy recovery.

Petition to rename this thread.

Option A "Parkbandits panties: wadded, binding, and causing great discomfort."

Option B "A call to arms for the PC PB sycophants. Do as he does. Say what he says"

Option C "PB can't find anything to make him feelbetter. Please join him in his favorite pastime, hating."

[Ashliana]

Normally, I would point out your obvious jealousy over post counts.. given you bring it up very often... but this is a thread to help you through this obviously very difficult time in your life.. so I won't.

This is a thread to get you the encouragement you really need. Positivity is the answer to all your negativity!

https://readingartlab.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/artlab_kindness-gif-2_-jennifer.gif

That's right, PB, everyone's jealous of how you've obsessively stuck around a forum dedicated to an ancient game you no longer play, so you could send deranged, sexually graphic messages full of impotent rage to strangers - mostly men - on the Internet.


Option B "A call to arms for the PC PB sycophants. Do as he does. Say what he says"

That's the one. :)

[Neveragain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZBB6s1pQBg

[Parkbandit]

Petition to rename this thread.

Option A "Parkbandits panties: wadded, binding, and causing great discomfort."

Option B "A call to arms for the PC PB sycophants. Do as he does. Say what he says"

Option C "PB can't find anything to make him feelbetter. Please join him in his favorite pastime, hating."

Why are you so negative? This thread is FOR Ashliana to be POSITIVE.

Positivity will always trump negativity... and right now Ashliana needs our positive thoughts.

Don't be rude.

[Parkbandit]

That's right, PB, everyone's jealous of how you've obsessively stuck around a forum dedicated to an ancient game you no longer play, so you could send deranged, sexually graphic messages full of impotent rage to strangers - mostly men - on the Internet.

Now is not the time to call straight men "gay" as a slur.

Now is the time to get you on the right track towards positivity.

Come on, Ashliana... you can't be all toxic all the time, can you?

Try being positive.

[HOUSE]

Why don’t you guys just kiss already.

[Ashliana]

That's right, PB, everyone's jealous of how you've obsessively stuck around a forum dedicated to an ancient game you no longer play, so you could send deranged, sexually graphic messages full of impotent rage to strangers - mostly men - on the Internet.Now is not the time to call straight men "gay" as a slur.

Now is the time to get you on the right track towards positivity.

Come on, Ashliana... you can't be all toxic all the time, can you?

Try being positive.

You might want to look up what "slur" means, since even if your fallacious argument were correct, that's not what it would be. It would be the insinuation that being gay is a negative -- which you've argued in the past, not me -- and not a "slur." But you being ignorant about basic words is pretty on brand for you, PB, being an uneducated tradesman from Florida in desperate need of psychiatric care.

Pointing out your deranged behavior, especially in light of how you keep trying to identify yourself as "normal" and "straight" doesn't confer any kind of negative implication on homosexuality. It reflects on you. :)

Seek help soon.

[caelric]

Petition to rename this thread.

Option A "Parkbandits panties: wadded, binding, and causing great discomfort."

Option B "A call to arms for the PC PB sycophants. Do as he does. Say what he says"

Option C "PB can't find anything to make him feelbetter. Please join him in his favorite pastime, hating."

You know that Ashlianna is not really a girl, right? And that white knighting is not going to get you anything.

[Bhaalizmo]

You know that Ashlianna is not really a girl, right? And that white knighting is not going to get you anything.

Doesn't matter.

It's not about that.

It's about opposing you and your kind.

[caelric]

Doesn't matter.

It's not about that.

It's about opposing you and your kind.

You and your kind. The Nazis dehumanizing their foes like that, as well. Congratulations, you're a Nazi.

[Back]

Now is not the time to call straight men "gay" as a slur.

Now is the time to get you on the right track towards positivity.

Come on, Ashliana... you can't be all toxic all the time, can you?

Try being positive.

ROFL you have no ground to lecture ANYONE about being “toxic”. Calling people out on their BS with truth is not toxic. Being an ass who treats people like garbage is.

[Bhaalizmo]

more of the same predictable dumb stuff.

https://media.giphy.com/media/LU0H8hPQYDCki9hFNh/giphy.gif

[Parkbandit]

You might want to look up what "slur" means, since even if your fallacious argument were correct, that's not what it would be. It would be the insinuation that being gay is a negative -- which you've argued in the past, not me -- and not a "slur." But you being ignorant about basic words is pretty on brand for you, PB, being an uneducated tradesman from Florida in desperate need of psychiatric care.

Pointing out your deranged behavior, especially in light of how you keep trying to identify yourself as "normal" and "straight" doesn't confer any kind of negative implication on homosexuality. It reflects on you. :)

Seek help soon.

This thread IS all about the help you need.

We're going to drive that toxic behavior from you!

You will be far better off. Heck, you might even start liking yourself!!

Give it a try. POSITIVITY!

[Parkbandit]

ROFL you have no ground to lecture ANYONE about being “toxic”. Calling people out on their BS with truth is not toxic. Being an ass who treats people like garbage is.

Take your silliness to another thread Backlash. This is about Ashliana and giving him he help he so desperately needs.

Make your own thread if you want to get help. Call it "Can someone help me with my GED" and we will be there for you.

Remember: POSITIVITY is the cure.

[~Rocktar~]

ROFL you have no ground to lecture ANYONE about being “toxic”.

Really Mr Hypocrite, you do it all the time, yet here you are are are doing it in this post.


Calling people out on their BS with truth is not toxic.

Except you don't call people out about truth, you just spew dumb shit over and over and claim it's truth then backpeddle like crazy when you are hit up side the head over and over with the truth by using such terms as "I was being sarcastic" or "I didn't mean it that way, you took it out of context."


Being an ass who treats people like garbage is.

Again Mr. Hypocrite, here you are doing the exact what you accuse others of doing.

Your high horse bucked you off a long time ago and ran away so maybe you and others ought to give up this defend the herd, white knighting crusade you are on, huh?

On a positive side, I think this thread is helping IT get IT's anger out in one place. That's good.

[Ashliana]

You know that Ashlianna is not really a girl, right? And that white knighting is not going to get you anything.

You know that Parkbandit is not really a girl, right? And that white knighting is not going to get you anything.


This thread IS all about the help you need.

We're going to drive that toxic behavior from you!

You will be far better off. Heck, you might even start liking yourself!!

Give it a try. POSITIVITY!

It's great that you're totally okay with you being a transparent hypocrite. You throwing away what (nonexistent) credibility you had was an interesting choice, but thanks for the link to this thread I'll just post at you in every subsequent thread where you freak out and start hysterically crying about the "toxicity" that other people, who aren't you, cause. Thanks. :)

[Parkbandit]

You know that Parkbandit is not really a girl, right? And that white knighting is not going to get you anything.

I bet if I named myself "Parkbanditiana" I might be able to get people to think I'm a cute girl though!


It's great that you're totally okay with you being a transparent hypocrite. You throwing away what (nonexistent) credibility you had was an interesting choice, but thanks for the link to this thread I'll just post at you in every subsequent thread where you freak out and start hysterically crying about the "toxicity" that other people, who aren't you, cause. Thanks. :)

Hey now, I'm not hysterically crying about you being toxic.. I'm trying to give you the attention you are so in desire of, given your month long meltdown... and trying to get you some good, positive feelings!

STAY POSITIVE!

[Methais]

Doesn't matter.

It's not about that.

It's about opposing you and your kind.

You oppose positivity? I guess I shouldn't be surprised, since you're always angry and bitter.

BUT IT'S TIME TO CHANGE ALL THAT STARTING NOW!

https://media3.giphy.com/media/3o7WTxQ7RFErPLfOqk/giphy.gif

You know what I think you need? A good neighbor. Studies indicate that people who don't have a good neighbor have a 57% higher chance to be miserable, and up to 87% more likely to be miserable if they have a bad neighbor.

Don't worry Bhaalizmad, we're gonna turn your frowny :( upside downy! :)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTqFxMxfzkA


ROFL you have no ground to lecture ANYONE about being “toxic”. Calling people out on their BS with truth is not toxic. Being an ass who treats people like garbage is.

And you too. I think you have the potential to be a good neighbor. Let's be neighbors.


Really Mr Hypocrite, you do it all the time, yet here you are are are doing it in this post.



Except you don't call people out about truth, you just spew dumb shit over and over and claim it's truth then backpeddle like crazy when you are hit up side the head over and over with the truth by using such terms as "I was being sarcastic" or "I didn't mean it that way, you took it out of context."



Again Mr. Hypocrite, here you are doing the exact what you accuse others of doing.

Your high horse bucked you off a long time ago and ran away so maybe you and others ought to give up this defend the herd, white knighting crusade you are on, huh?

On a positive side, I think this thread is helping IT get IT's anger out in one place. That's good.

Whoa settle down there buddy. This is a positive thread. Even more positive than THIS THREAD (http://forum.gsplayers.com/showthread.php?127293-Thread-Where-We-re-All-Nice-to-Each-Other) if you can believe it.

We're all here to help Ashliana and Bhaalizmo and Back add the positivity to their lives that they need.

https://media0.giphy.com/media/l0Nwz1ehUndfqL9MQ/source.gif

[Methais]

You know that Parkbandit is not really a girl, right? And that white knighting is not going to get you anything.



It's great that you're totally okay with you being a transparent hypocrite. You throwing away what (nonexistent) credibility you had was an interesting choice, but thanks for the link to this thread I'll just post at you in every subsequent thread where you freak out and start hysterically crying about the "toxicity" that other people, who aren't you, cause. Thanks. :)

The only credibility that matters around here is POSITIVITY, and there's only one street that has the cred you need...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWK9pdiyay8

Do you have what it takes to make it on the nice streets of Sesame, where there is no toxicity allowed and negativity runs in fear?

[Neveragain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqhCQZaH4Vs

[Ashliana]

I bet if I named myself "Parkbanditiana" I might be able to get people to think I'm a cute girl though!

I know you're super butthurt about never having been able to demonstrate that assertion, despite how cherishly you'd hold onto literally any example if it were true. Alas, we don't live in the world of your fantasies.


Hey now, I'm not hysterically crying about you being toxic.. I'm trying to give you the attention you are so in desire of, given your month long meltdown... and trying to get you some good, positive feelings!

STAY POSITIVE!

It's okay, PB. It's not like this thread has demonstrated, in crystal clarity, your ongoing obsession with me, or the fact that your right-wing circlejerk squad has been hopping mad since Trump lost. :) You'll get over it someday.


The only credibility that matters around here is POSITIVITY, and there's only one street that has the cred you need...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWK9pdiyay8

Do you have what it takes to make it on the nice streets of Sesame, where there is no toxicity allowed and negativity runs in fear?

There, there, Methais. You'll figure out a way to shitpost that doesn't contradict itself someday.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Parkbandit]

I know you're super butthurt about never having been able to demonstrate that assertion, despite how cherishly you'd hold onto literally any example if it were true. Alas, we don't live in the world of your fantasies.

It's okay, PB. It's not like this thread has demonstrated, in crystal clarity, your ongoing obsession with me, or the fact that your right-wing circlejerk squad has been hopping mad since Trump lost. :) You'll get over it someday.


"YOU'RE JUST OBSESSED WITH ME!" -Ashliana 2021

Positivity will get you the reality check you desperately need at this point in your life. For other people to like you, you need to start by liking yourself. Now, I realize that is a tall task I'm asking of you in this situation, but we can't help those who don't have any self respect and live vicariously on the Internet fantasy you've created for yourself. Get a mirror and put it in front of you.. and I want you to Stuart Smalley yourself at least once an hour:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ldAQ6Rh5ZI&ab_channel=PuckMonkey

If you do this 24 times a day, you will rework the connections in your broken mind and finally accept yourself for what you are. Once you accept yourself, other people might start to.

Give it a try.

[Ashliana]

"I'M NOT OBSESSED WITH YOU!" Parkbandit hysterically cried, in the thread explicitly about Ashliana that he created. We're all wishing you get the psychiatric care you so desperately need soon.

[Neveragain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__VQX2Xn7tI

[Parkbandit]

"I'M NOT OBSESSED WITH YOU!" Parkbandit hysterically cried, in the thread explicitly about Ashliana that he created. We're all wishing you get the psychiatric care you so desperately need soon.

I'm just here to help you get through this rough patch and get you on the right track for the first time in your life.

Just accept the help.

Please.

[Ashliana]

I'm just here to help you get through this rough patch and get you on the right track for the first time in your life.

Just accept the help.

Please.

It's okay, Parkbandit. You'll get over Trump himself losing and causing the loss of the Senate. You'll make it through just like you made it through the Obama years. Although, that is what really accelerated your anger issues and Alzheimer's..

I'm sure if you put together a GoFundMe, the PC will help pay the bills for the extensive psychiatric treatment you so clearly need. Surely someone cares about you enough to donate.

[Methais]

I know you're super butthurt about never having been able to demonstrate that assertion, despite how cherishly you'd hold onto literally any example if it were true. Alas, we don't live in the world of your fantasies.



It's okay, PB. It's not like this thread has demonstrated, in crystal clarity, your ongoing obsession with me, or the fact that your right-wing circlejerk squad has been hopping mad since Trump lost. :) You'll get over it someday.



There, there, Methais. You'll figure out a way to shitpost that doesn't contradict itself someday.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

I'm disappointed that you consider positive things to be shit.

I can see you're much more bitter than I had originally anticipated, and that the depression has set in so hard that all you can muster the strength to do is press CTRL+V.

You know what will help though? Mowing a lawn.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7W-ikMtCm8

[Ashliana]

I'm disappointed that you consider positive things to be shit.

I can see you're much more bitter than I had originally anticipated, and that the depression has set in so hard that all you can muster the strength to do is press CTRL+V.

You know what will help though? Mowing a lawn.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7W-ikMtCm8

There's no need to do anything but CTRL-V, since the same thing applies: You contradicting yourself with regard to the toxicity you supposedly don't like all over the forum. :) But then again, it's not like anyone was ever going to associate you with consistency, so there's been nothing lost.

But there, there, Methais. You'll figure out a way to shitpost that doesn't contradict itself someday.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Methais]

There's no need to do anything but CTRL-V, since the same thing applies: You contradicting yourself with regard to the toxicity you supposedly don't like all over the forum. :) But then again, it's not like anyone was ever going to associate you with consistency, so there's been nothing lost.

But there, there, Methais. You'll figure out a way to shitpost that doesn't contradict itself someday.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

Your attempts to justify your own chronic negativity, while futile, is disturbing. It's almost as if you enjoy being miserable.

I do hope that the overwhelming positivity and support in this thread will assist with your mental illness.

Perhaps some reading will assist you...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YtYMzh8lxk

[Ashliana]

Your attempts to justify your own chronic negativity, while futile, is disturbing. It's almost as if you enjoy being miserable.

I do hope that the overwhelming positivity and support in this thread will assist with your mental illness.

Perhaps some reading will assist you...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YtYMzh8lxk

No one has to justify their own "negativity" in order to point out your rank hypocrisy. Didn't think that one through, did you? But again, if you ever thought things through, you probably wouldn't be a Trump apologist.

But there, there, Methais. You'll figure out a way to shitpost that doesn't contradict itself someday.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Methais]

No one has to justify their own "negativity" in order to point out your rank hypocrisy. Didn't think that one through, did you? But again, if you ever thought things through, you probably wouldn't be a Trump apologist.

But there, there, Methais. You'll figure out a way to shitpost that doesn't contradict itself someday.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

Why are you so angry all the time? Who hurt you? You should try being happy instead of mindlessly repeating yourself with tired answers to try and explain why you think being miserable is so cool. It's pretty cool.

Instead of being this:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/63/03/b3/6303b3bc2a32253742e7d9e3fef5a6cc.gif

Try being this:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/86/74/a9/8674a918f3765e5ab9f1191ad5811713.gif

[Ashliana]

Why are you so angry all the time? Who hurt you? You should try being happy instead of mindlessly repeating yourself with tired answers to try and explain why you think being miserable is so cool. It's pretty cool.

Instead of being this:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/63/03/b3/6303b3bc2a32253742e7d9e3fef5a6cc.gif

Try being this:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/86/74/a9/8674a918f3765e5ab9f1191ad5811713.gif

There, there, Methais. You'll figure out a way to shitpost that doesn't contradict itself someday.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Methais]

There, there, Methais. You'll figure out a way to shitpost that doesn't contradict itself someday.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

I can see more drastic measures are going to be needed, as it seems you've become catatonic.

But that's ok. We'll start with the basics...

Quick, which of these is the correct way to wear a tie?

https://i.imgur.com/xERQ8Tu.jpg

[Ashliana]

I can see more drastic measures are going to be needed, as it seems you've become catatonic.

But that's ok. We'll start with the basics...

Quick, which of these is the correct way to wear a tie?

https://i.imgur.com/xERQ8Tu.jpg

There, there, Methais. You'll figure out a way to shitpost that doesn't contradict itself someday.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Methais]

There, there, Methais. You'll figure out a way to shitpost that doesn't contradict itself someday.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

Poor kid doesn't even know how to wear a tie.

No wonder you're so miserable.

If you had more positivity in your life, you'd probably know how to wear a tie.

It's ok little trooper. Just keep CTRL+V and maybe one day you'll get tired of being such a negative Nancy all the time and embrace the power of positivity.

I know you don't have any creativity, but you can still shake off that negativity. Is your bath tub by any chance filled with weird looking pink slime? If so, you should sing happy songs to it.

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[Parkbandit]

Keep pouring on the good vibes and positive thoughts people! Drain the toxicity from him!

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[Parkbandit]

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[Parkbandit]

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[Parkbandit]

Just remember Ashliana!

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Just love yourself!

[Parkbandit]

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[Parkbandit]

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[Ashliana]

Poor kid doesn't even know how to wear a tie.

No wonder you're so miserable.

If you had more positivity in your life, you'd probably know how to wear a tie.

It's ok little trooper. Just keep CTRL+V and maybe one day you'll get tired of being such a negative Nancy all the time and embrace the power of positivity.

I know you don't have any creativity, but you can still shake off that negativity. Is your bath tub by any chance filled with weird looking pink slime? If so, you should sing happy songs to it.

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/ab0bWNB_460s.jpg

There, there, Methais. You'll figure out a way to shitpost that doesn't contradict itself someday.

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Look how not-completely-obsessed with Ashliana I am!

Get help soon.

[Parkbandit]

I HAVE TO RESPOND TO EVERYTHING YOU AND METHAIS POST BECAUSE I'M OBSESSED WITH YOU!!! AND I THINK YOU ARE HITTING ON ME BECAUSE I'M SO PATHETIC AND LONELY!


Please give positivity a chance. I know you've let negativity lead your life.. and to be fair, who could blame you! BUT if you let us help you, maybe your life can finally become something you aren't so ashamed of.

Let us in. (This is not a sexual reference.. this is just a saying to let us help you.. don't misconstrue something else you will obsess over for years)

[Ashliana]

You responded to the thread I specifically made about you! That shows that you, in fact, are obsessed with me and not the other way around! What do you MEAN, I, in my late 40s, obsessively cycled through the rep system in order to leave as many sexually graphic messages as I could, full of my trademark impotent rage? That doesn't count!

You'll eventually get over your epic butthurt that Trump lost. Perhaps psychiatric care might speed your recovery.

[caelric]

You'll eventually get over your epic butthurt that Trump lost. Perhaps psychiatric care might speed your recovery.

I mean, you haven't gotten over Clinton's loss.

But honestly, try and be happy. You've gotten what you want, now just be happy. You need some happiness in your life.

[Neveragain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-HUgzYPm9g

[Stolis]

I can see more drastic measures are going to be needed, as it seems you've become catatonic.

But that's ok. We'll start with the basics...

Quick, which of these is the correct way to wear a tie?

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This is bothering me, because I don't have a belt around the Brontosaurus for a reference point. Negative repped for no realism in this meme.

[Parkbandit]

You'll eventually get over your epic butthurt that Trump lost. Perhaps psychiatric care might speed your recovery.

Sorry.. I don't get upset like others over elections. You know why?

Because I have positivity.

Also, I'm not some self-loathing type that has to escape to the Internet.

I hope you my positive message somehow gets through to you and you change... but you have to be willing to change.

Be the change you desperately need. BE POSTIVE!

[Ashliana]

Sorry.. I don't get upset like others over elections. You know why?

Because I have positivity.

Also, I'm not some self-loathing type that has to escape to the Internet.

I hope you my positive message somehow gets through to you and you change... but you have to be willing to change.

Be the change you desperately need. BE POSTIVE!

Except for that whole part, where, y'know, your actions over the last month are observable. You haven't been this butthurt since Obama won the second time and you had that epic meltdown.

[Parkbandit]

Except for that whole part, where, y'know, your actions over the last month are observable. You haven't been this butthurt since Obama won the second time and you had that epic meltdown.

This isn't very positive Ashliana.

The only one who seems buttsore is you. Did you have a thing for Trump? Your self loathing is so bad, you can't even be happy when your old white guy wins an election? Yikes.

You are going to need some super duper positive thoughts! Do the Stuart Smalley treatment 15 times a day for a year and I believe you will see a chance in yourself. Just keep saying you don't hate yourself and one day in the distant future.. it might actually happen!!!

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[Parkbandit]

Except for that whole part, where, y'know, your actions over the last month are observable. You haven't been this butthurt since Obama won the second time and you had that epic meltdown.

Also, specifically, what have I done in the past month that is different than I've done over the past 4 years?

* Citation required.

Also this: https://media2.giphy.com/media/dJGYFScvBjfRabiH7m/giphy.gif

[Ashliana]

Also, specifically, what have I done in the past month that is different than I've done over the past 4 years?

* Citation required.

Also this: https://media2.giphy.com/media/dJGYFScvBjfRabiH7m/giphy.gif

So you're saying you're always deranged and obsessive and this isn't out of the norm for you? I see, I see.

[Parkbandit]

So you're saying you're always deranged and obsessive and this isn't out of the norm for you? I see, I see.

You made the claim that I am obviously butthurt with Trump losing the election and that is supported by observations of my actions over the past month.

Be specific. What actions have I done in the past month that I haven't done in the past 4 years.

It's not that difficult.

[Ashliana]

You made the claim that I am obviously butthurt with Trump losing the election and that is supported by observations of my actions over the past month.

Be specific. What actions have I done in the past month that I haven't done in the past 4 years.

It's not that difficult.

I mean, you are obviously butthurt. :) I could go the Methais route, and simply post to your profile. That's the standard of evidence for conservatives, right?

[Parkbandit]

I mean, you are obviously butthurt. :) I could go the Methais route, and simply post to your profile. That's the standard of evidence for conservatives, right?

So you can't provide evidence to your claim that my actions over the past month have proven that I am upset about Trump not winning re-election.

I'm fucking shocked.

I accept your apology and concession.

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[Ashliana]

So you can't provide evidence to your claim that my actions over the past month have proven that I am upset about Trump not winning re-election.

I'm fucking shocked.

I accept your apology and concession.

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Observing your behavior is all it takes. Read through your post history of the last 30 days, and voila. I made reference to your behavior over the entire period, not a specific post. Better luck next time. Kudos, though, on being forced to drop the positivity meme. :)

[Parkbandit]

Observing your behavior is all it takes. Read through your post history of the last 30 days, and voila. I made reference to your behavior over the entire period, not a specific post. Better luck next time. Kudos, though, on being forced to drop the positivity meme. :)

Then you probably have some hard facts.. like maybe post count is up? Maybe I posted more in politics in the past month than I ever have in the past 4 years? Tell us you have SOMETHING besides you feel like it because your fee fees are so in tune to everyone but yourself... tell us you aren't just making up claims without a shred of evidence in a pathetic hope that you might be right one day?

Seems like you just have a big old case of projecting again. :(

It's ok. Projection is a big part of escapism and that's brought on by just loathing yourself... which is... because you do not have positivity in your life!


Kudos, though, on being forced to drop the positivity meme. :)

It was never, ever dropped and you certainly didn't force me to do anything.

If you just allow some positivity in your life, you would see an amazing change. You can't be all self loathing 24/7... give it a try!

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[Neveragain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwSra5p8MDw

[Methais]

I mean, you are obviously butthurt. :) I could go the Methais route, and simply post to your profile. That's the standard of evidence for conservatives, right?

I don't have time to read through like 52,366 posts.


Observing your behavior is all it takes. Read through your post history of the last 30 days, and voila. I made reference to your behavior over the entire period, not a specific post. Better luck next time. Kudos, though, on being forced to drop the positivity meme. :)


I just read through all 52,365 of of PB's posts since 2003, and I didn't see anything like what you described.

[Ashliana]

Then you probably have some hard facts.. like maybe post count is up? Maybe I posted more in politics in the past month than I ever have in the past 4 years? Tell us you have SOMETHING besides you feel like it because your fee fees are so in tune to everyone but yourself... tell us you aren't just making up claims without a shred of evidence in a pathetic hope that you might be right one day?

Seems like you just have a big old case of projecting again. :(

It's ok. Projection is a big part of escapism and that's brought on by just loathing yourself... which is... because you do not have positivity in your life!



It was never, ever dropped and you certainly didn't force me to do anything.

If you just allow some positivity in your life, you would see an amazing change. You can't be all self loathing 24/7... give it a try!

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You've been extra deranged and obsessed since Trump lost. I know you're trying to salve your bruised ego by trying to place qualifiers on it, but even a quick observation of your behavior over the last month shows some epic butthurt. Such as your creation of this very thread. :) But it's okay, Parkbandit.. You'll get through this.


I don't have time to read through like 52,366 posts.

I just read through all 52,365 of of PB's posts since 2003, and I didn't see anything like what you described.

Being deranged yourself, your eyes must glaze over in a stupor and not pick up on PB's. Not that that's a surprise, but keep at it, and keep your chin up. You'll survive these dark times. Persevere!

[Tsk Tsk]

You all just need to kiss and let go of all this sexual frustration.

[Parkbandit]

You've been extra deranged and obsessed since Trump lost. I know you're trying to salve your bruised ego by trying to place qualifiers on it, but even a quick observation of your behavior over the last month shows some epic butthurt. Such as your creation of this very thread. :) But it's okay, Parkbandit.. You'll get through this.

I'm sure I remember other threads that I have posted just like this in the past. In fact, there is one thread where I asked the PC to help bring you back..

You've failed to produce any evidence to your claim. Zero citations.

Your claim has been deemed FALSE.

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You got called out, you failed as usual and now you are trying to deflect. Put up, shut up or concede.

We both know you can't do any of them.. and will continue to deflect and reuse the same old tired lines.. because that's all you have.




Now.. let's get back to why we are all here... to get you some positive influence in your life for once.

POSITIVITY WILL WIN!!!!
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[Ashliana]

I'm sure I remember other threads that I have posted just like this in the past. In fact, there is one thread where I asked the PC to help bring you back..

Yeah, you totally, uh, proved that you haven't been obsessed with me for years, by saying that.


You've failed to produce any evidence to your claim. Zero citations.

Your unwillingness or inability to read reflects on you, Parkbandit. 1) I said you've been deranged since Trump's loss. That covers all your posts, so citing one specific post doesn't really make much sense. Didn't put any thought into that, did you? But you sure jumped at the chance. 2) I did provide an example. This thread, which is complete evidence of how deranged you're behaving. The fact that you've been deranged in the past doesn't mean you're not being especially bonkers right now. :)


Your claim has been deemed FALSE.

Alas, your delusions continue to lack the power to warp and twist reality to conform with them. Much to your obvious dismay. Keep trying, though!



You got called out, you failed as usual and now you are trying to deflect. Put up, shut up or concede.

We both know you can't do any of them.. and will continue to deflect and reuse the same old tired lines.. because that's all you have.

See above. You can restate the same nonsense all you want, but your delusions can't change reality.


Now.. let's get back to why we are all here... to get you some positive influence in your life for once.

POSITIVITY WILL WIN!!!!
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It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

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[Parkbandit]

So, my posting behavior over the past month didn't change like you claimed. So perhaps, I'm not "epic buttsore" about Trump not being re-elected.

Just accept defeat on your claim.. you were wrong... but let's be honest, you've been more wrong than right your entire life.

Let's get back to giving positivity a chance! Come on Ashliana, what do you have to lose except your negative attitude, general shitty disposition, epic self-loathing and a personality no one likes?? Don't you want to be something better?

POSITIVE THINKING WILL BE YOUR SALVATION!

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[Ashliana]

So, my posting behavior over the past month didn't change like you claimed. So perhaps, I'm not "epic buttsore" about Trump not being re-elected.

Just accept defeat on your claim.. you were wrong... but let's be honest, you've been more wrong than right your entire life.

Since you've demonstrated that you basically didn't read what I wrote, I'll re-post it: Your unwillingness or inability to read reflects on you, Parkbandit. 1) I said you've been deranged since Trump's loss. That covers all your posts, so citing one specific post doesn't really make much sense. Didn't put any thought into that, did you? But you sure jumped at the chance. 2) I did provide an example. This thread, which is complete evidence of how deranged you're behaving. The fact that you've been deranged in the past doesn't mean you're not being especially bonkers right now.


Let's get back to giving positivity a chance! Come on Ashliana, what do you have to lose except your negative attitude, general shitty disposition, epic self-loathing and a personality no one likes?? Don't you want to be something better?

POSITIVE THINKING WILL BE YOUR SALVATION!

https://i.imgur.com/glbEnOk.gif?noredirect

It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Parkbandit]

Since you've demonstrated that you basically didn't read what I wrote, I'll re-post it: Your unwillingness or inability to read reflects on you, Parkbandit. 1) I said you've been deranged since Trump's loss. That covers all your posts, so citing one specific post doesn't really make much sense. Didn't put any thought into that, did you? But you sure jumped at the chance. 2) I did provide an example. This thread, which is complete evidence of how deranged you're behaving. The fact that you've been deranged in the past doesn't mean you're not being especially bonkers right now.

So my posting history over the past month has not changed in my 18 year history on these forums... and I have said repeatedly that whomever is in the WH means very little to me... but because I made this thread, THAT PROVES I am upset that Trump didn't get re-elected.

The logical steps you needed to get to this point is astounding.... It's ok. We both know you couldn't put up, you can't shut up and you can't accept when you are wrong... so you deflect, pretend and regurgitate the same tired lines you've been posting on this message board your entire history here.

It's true though.. I didn't read what you wrote.. and that's on me. I knew it would be a deflection.. I even called it.

Clearly, you won't let positivity change your toxic behavior. You can't stand to be yourself, why are you surprised no one else wants to be around you?

YOU NEED TO CHANGE! AND POSITIVITY CAN BE JUST WHAT THE PSYCHOLOGIST ORDERED!!!

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[Astray]

What the fuckle?

[Parkbandit]

What the fuckle?

Pretty sure you mean Finkle.. yes?

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[Ashliana]

So my posting history over the past month has not changed in my 18 year history on these forums... and I have said repeatedly that whomever is in the WH means very little to me... but because I made this thread, THAT PROVES I am upset that Trump didn't get re-elected.

The logical steps you needed to get to this point is astounding.... It's ok. We both know you couldn't put up, you can't shut up and you can't accept when you are wrong... so you deflect, pretend and regurgitate the same tired lines you've been posting on this message board your entire history here.

Again, since you can't read, it's time to re-post using bright red crayons:

1) I said you've been especially deranged since Trump's loss. That covers all your posts in the last month, so citing one specific post doesn't really make much sense. Didn't put any thought into that, did you? But you sure jumped at the chance.
2) I did provide an example. This thread, which is complete evidence of how deranged you're behaving. The fact that you've been deranged in the past doesn't mean you're not being especially bonkers right now.



It's true though.. I didn't read what you wrote.. and that's on me. I knew it would be a deflection.. I even called it.

Thanks for admitting what we already knew. :) And you can't demonstrate how anything was "deflected," since your assertion was rooted in your either willful or deliberate straw man argument. Better luck shitting out a coherent position next time!


Clearly, you won't let positivity change your toxic behavior. You can't stand to be yourself, why are you surprised no one else wants to be around you?

YOU NEED TO CHANGE! AND POSITIVITY CAN BE JUST WHAT THE PSYCHOLOGIST ORDERED!!!

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It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

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[Methais]

What the fuckle?

This is the it's time for unity thread.

[Parkbandit]

Again, since you can't read, it's time to re-post using bright red crayons:

1) I said you've been especially deranged since Trump's loss. That covers all your posts in the last month, so citing one specific post doesn't really make much sense. Didn't put any thought into that, did you? But you sure jumped at the chance.
2) I did provide an example. This thread, which is complete evidence of how deranged you're behaving. The fact that you've been deranged in the past doesn't mean you're not being especially bonkers right now.


Just because you keep repeated the diversion doesn't somehow magically make it intelligent or logical.

If I have been especially butthurt in the past month, there has to be something you can point to that I haven't done in the past 4 years that makes you say "THIS IS IT!" You can't just link this thread, given I have made multiple threads of this same type in the past.

Since you cannot come up with some evidence that illustrates how I have changed my posting behavior over the past month, you have zero evidence that I am especially upset about Trump not getting re-elected. Now, this is how YOU felt after Clinton didn't win in 2016.. but most normal people's lives don't revolve around which party is in the White House.

Now, if you would like to come up with some posts that are out of character for me over the past month.. I'll be willing to take a look. Until then, maybe you should look within to find out what the problem is.... your inability to be happy because you cannot embrace positivity.


Thanks for admitting what we already knew. :)

If I read one Ashliana post, I've pretty much read them all. You are like a one of those old school dolls that says just 1 thing when you pull her string. Do me a favor.. when you actually bring an intelligent point up.. maybe mark it with a star so everyone can revel in your brilliance.


And you can't demonstrate how anything was "deflected," since your assertion was rooted in your either willful or deliberate straw man argument. Better luck shitting out a coherent position next time!

Anyone with an IQ above purple sees what you are doing. Either you are monumentally dumb (which I can believe) or you are willfully diverting from the original claim you made. Spoiler: Just because I made this thread THREE months after the election doesn't mean I'm suddenly buttsore about the result.


It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

You should use smaller words... spectacularly lost makes no sense in this case. Trump had more votes than any Republican in history. House had gains. Senate is 50/50. State Houses had gains.

It's ok. You keep on regurgitating the same thing over and over and over and over again... and it still doesn't change the fact that it's wrong and stupid.

Now, let's get back to why I created this thread: You need a positive influence in your life and thinking positively can be that vehicle for transformation!

Be positive and good things might happen for you for a change! YOU NEED THIS!

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[Ashliana]

Just because you keep repeated the diversion doesn't somehow magically make it intelligent or logical.

If I have been especially butthurt in the past month, there has to be something you can point to that I haven't done in the past 4 years that makes you say "THIS IS IT!" You can't just link this thread, given I have made multiple threads of this same type in the past.

Your inability to read reflects on you -- the fact that you've had deranged flare-ups at various points in the past doesn't mean you aren't having an especially severe demented episode now. Your inability to grasp this simple point reflects on you.


Since you cannot come up with some evidence that illustrates how I have changed my posting behavior over the past month, you have zero evidence that I am especially upset about Trump not getting re-elected.

Your behavior speaks for itself. Trying to spin it away as being no more deranged than your usual behavior is an affirmative defense -- you admitting to always being retarded -- but it's not a particularly convincing one.


Now, this is how YOU felt after Clinton didn't win in 2016.. but most normal people's lives don't revolve around which party is in the White House.

* Citation required. :) I basically didn't post at all right after the election.


Now, if you would like to come up with some posts that are out of character for me over the past month.. I'll be willing to take a look. Until then, maybe you should look within to find out what the problem is.... your inability to be happy because you cannot embrace positivity.

All your posts in the past month have been extra vitriolic, indicative of your spectacular butthurt over Trump losing the election and causing the GOP to lose Congress.


If I read one Ashliana post, I've pretty much read them all. You are like a one of those old school dolls that says just 1 thing when you pull her string. Do me a favor.. when you actually bring an intelligent point up.. maybe mark it with a star so everyone can revel in your brilliance.

And yet you keep responding.. to the person you created a thread about ... in the thread you obsessively created about them. :) Get help soon, Parkbandit.


Anyone with an IQ above purple sees what you are doing. Either you are monumentally dumb (which I can believe) or you are willfully diverting from the original claim you made. Spoiler: Just because I made this thread THREE months after the election doesn't mean I'm suddenly buttsore about the result.

You've misrepresented my claim a bunch of times now, and demonstrated both your inability to comprehend basic English and your unwillingness to read. Either you're monumentally dumb (which we already know is true) or you're willfully diverting from the fact that you have no way to contest my assertion.


You should use smaller words... spectacularly lost makes no sense in this case. Trump had more votes than any Republican in history. House had gains. Senate is 50/50. State Houses had gains.

That doesn't mean anything. Biden had more votes than anyone in history. Trump himself declared his 2016 win as a "landslide victory," and Biden won by two more electoral votes. :) So I'm going to stick to: Trump spectacularly lost and engineered a loss of the Senate.


It's ok. You keep on regurgitating the same thing over and over and over and over again... and it still doesn't change the fact that it's wrong and stupid.

Now, let's get back to why I created this thread: You need a positive influence in your life and thinking positively can be that vehicle for transformation!

Be positive and good things might happen for you for a change! YOU NEED THIS!

It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Parkbandit]

* Citation required. :) I basically didn't post at all right after the election.

That is my citation. You were obviously so distraught that your posting behavior changed right after the election.

Now, it's not positive thinking when I rub your nose in me winning so much in this thread.. so I'm not going to gloat.

I'm going to offer you this instead: Be positive and maybe things will change for the better in your life. Lord knows you could use a break.

[drauz]

https://i.imgur.com/MpNXNXl.gif?noredirect

[Ashliana]

That is my citation. You were obviously so distraught that your posting behavior changed right after the election.

Except it didn't. I wasn't posting much before it, either. :) You didn't think that one out. Because you pulled it out of nowhere, unlike your demonstrably deranged spree over the last month.


Now, it's not positive thinking when I rub your nose in me winning so much in this thread.. so I'm not going to gloat.

I'm going to offer you this instead: Be positive and maybe things will change for the better in your life. Lord knows you could use a break.

It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[drauz]

Not very positive.

Sorry, my test came back negative.

[Neveragain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VM2eLhvsSM

[Parkbandit]

Sorry, my test came back negative.

But that is positive!! Congratulations!!

[Methais]

But that is positive!! Congratulations!!

:lol:

[HOUSE]

Just when I thought this place couldn’t be any more pathetic, there is an 11 page thread for personal attacks.

This folder really needs some mods.

[Bhaalizmo]

Just when I thought this place couldn’t be any more pathetic, there is an 11 page thread for personal attacks.

This folder really needs some mods.

I volunteer you.

[Parkbandit]

Just when I thought this place couldn’t be any more pathetic, there is an 11 page thread for personal attacks.

This folder really needs some mods.

Thanks for adding to the personal attacks...

This thread is for positivity... some people just don't want to be positive.

[Astray]

This is the it's time for unity thread.

Idk man, that sounds pretty queer.

[Ashliana]

Thanks for adding to the personal attacks...

This thread is for positivity... some people just don't want to be positive.

It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[~Rocktar~]

It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

Damn, you are still on an asshurt bender now 5+ years straight and your creepy, corrupt scum slithered in with a corrupt "victory" and your asshurt is even worse than before. Seek help.

It's cute you learned how to post a gif, that doesn't make your responses any more appropriate, effective or cognizant. Keep declaring yourself victor enough and you might just believe it even if it's not true and most everyone else is laughing at you.

I would pity you except that it's beneath me.

[Ashliana]

Damn, you are still on an asshurt bender now 5+ years straight and your creepy, corrupt scum slithered in with a corrupt "victory" and your asshurt is even worse than before. Seek help.

It's cute you learned how to post a gif, that doesn't make your responses any more appropriate, effective or cognizant. Keep declaring yourself victor enough and you might just believe it even if it's not true and most everyone else is laughing at you.

I would pity you except that it's beneath me.

:rofl: The right-wing butthurt is priceless, thank you. You were so confident you were on the cusp of a cultural revolution, only to be shocked back to reality by 81 million of your fellow Americans who, unlike you, don't get their news from InfoWars. But you'll be okay, Rocktar. Don't give up hope!

[Methais]

Damn, you are still on an asshurt bender now 5+ years straight and your creepy, corrupt scum slithered in with a corrupt "victory" and your asshurt is even worse than before. Seek help.

It's cute you learned how to post a gif, that doesn't make your responses any more appropriate, effective or cognizant. Keep declaring yourself victor enough and you might just believe it even if it's not true and most everyone else is laughing at you.

I would pity you except that it's beneath me.

In Ashliana's defense, that gif is the pinnacle of his creativity.

Probably because of all the negativity and lack of positivity. But there's no need to worry.

https://media0.giphy.com/media/l3vRaak6fltTSi6xW/200_s.gif

https://i.imgur.com/ldbvO3G.gif

[Ashliana]

In Ashliana's defense, that gif is the pinnacle of his creativity.

Probably because of all the negativity and lack of positivity. But there's no need to worry.

https://media0.giphy.com/media/l3vRaak6fltTSi6xW/200_s.gif

https://i.imgur.com/ldbvO3G.gif

Kind of like this is the pinnacle of your creativity?

https://media4.giphy.com/media/L8XuphFGqlSfe/200.gif

Self-awareness, Methais. Get some. :)

[Methais]

Kind of like this is the pinnacle of your creativity?

https://media4.giphy.com/media/L8XuphFGqlSfe/200.gif

Self-awareness, Methais. Get some. :)

Check back in after I've used it for like 94728492 posts in a row like you do.

In the meantime, you should work on doing this:

https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/1bae8800-2453-4d2f-aa78-db07dce58211/dc09dl3-d8a9c273-3eb4-4cda-abb9-0f23f92386e3.gif?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJ IUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOiIsImlzcyI6InVybjph cHA6Iiwib2JqIjpbW3sicGF0aCI6IlwvZlwvMWJhZTg4MDAtMj Q1My00ZDJmLWFhNzgtZGIwN2RjZTU4MjExXC9kYzA5ZGwzLWQ4 YTljMjczLTNlYjQtNGNkYS1hYmI5LTBmMjNmOTIzODZlMy5naW YifV1dLCJhdWQiOlsidXJuOnNlcnZpY2U6ZmlsZS5kb3dubG9h ZCJdfQ.PuI_9fGSI8mcIDLiynlLah_GRDURdBBuyF1GMzwnmCE

I would say you should attain some self awareness too, but you're not ready for that yet, as it would be counter productive with all that negativity you have built up.

Once you have become trans-positive, then we can check back into the self awareness thing. Doing so now would just make you more depressed, and we want positivity, not more negativity.

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[Ashliana]

Check back in after I've used it for like 94728492 posts in a row like you do.

In the meantime, you should work on doing this:

https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/1bae8800-2453-4d2f-aa78-db07dce58211/dc09dl3-d8a9c273-3eb4-4cda-abb9-0f23f92386e3.gif?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJ IUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOiIsImlzcyI6InVybjph cHA6Iiwib2JqIjpbW3sicGF0aCI6IlwvZlwvMWJhZTg4MDAtMj Q1My00ZDJmLWFhNzgtZGIwN2RjZTU4MjExXC9kYzA5ZGwzLWQ4 YTljMjczLTNlYjQtNGNkYS1hYmI5LTBmMjNmOTIzODZlMy5naW YifV1dLCJhdWQiOlsidXJuOnNlcnZpY2U6ZmlsZS5kb3dubG9h ZCJdfQ.PuI_9fGSI8mcIDLiynlLah_GRDURdBBuyF1GMzwnmCE

I would say you should attain some self awareness too, but you're not ready for that yet, as it would be counter productive with all that negativity you have built up.

Once you have become trans-positive, then we can check back into the self awareness thing. Doing so now would just make you more depressed, and we want positivity, not more negativity.

https://media0.giphy.com/media/26uf2idzrTXGITnna/giphy.gif

Nice dodge. But as long as it still applies, I'll use it. Like now. :)

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Methais]

Nice dodge. But as long as it still applies, I'll use it. Like now. :)

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

Top tier creativity right there.

Why do you embrace negativity? Who hurt you as a child?

Just tell me who they are...

https://media.tenor.com/images/8d5486a87ebb8eb025be6242e350392e/tenor.gif

[Ashliana]

Top tier creativity right there.

Why do you embrace negativity? Who hurt you as a child?

Just tell me who they are...

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[Methais]

https://media4.giphy.com/media/L8XuphFGqlSfe/200.gif

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[Ashliana]

https://media1.tenor.com/images/0147a87fdb5d76f3d6dcec4b4b25dabd/tenor.gif?itemid=12708895

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[Methais]

https://i.gifer.com/72sK.gif

I'm glad to see that you're making progress. This is excellent news.

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[Ashliana]

I'm glad to see that you're making progress. This is excellent news.

https://media.tenor.com/images/0590d24f64a1114d1cb5f2efcd1d37f5/tenor.gif

Nope, we're backsliding now. Feel better.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Methais]

Nope, we're backsliding now. Feel better.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

That's not very progressive of you.

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[Ashliana]

That's not very progressive of you.

https://wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com/asset/voices/2018/01/14/17257989/incredulous_doc-DMID1-5dgcjb5zc-600x311.gif

Where did all the positivity go? It was the only thing holding my day together. :(

[Methais]

Where did all the positivity go? It was the only thing holding my day together. :(

https://media.tenor.com/images/f28af1314611e6cfeaed9dfecf9ad908/tenor.gif

Stop fighting it. Embrace the power of positivity.

[Ashliana]

https://media.tenor.com/images/f28af1314611e6cfeaed9dfecf9ad908/tenor.gif

Stop fighting it. Embrace the power of positivity.

Oh, now it's back. Whiplash!

[Parkbandit]

Oh, now it's back. Whiplash!

I'm sure your neck can take it...

https://media1.tenor.com/images/6fe476875ad9b440abfb2a7dcd128153/tenor.gif?itemid=14030474

[Parkbandit]

The way your party is going, I just have to wait to 2022 and Republicans will have control of Congress and President Biden.. I mean President Harris, will be powerless.

But let's get back to your self-loathing and how we can help you at least tolerate yourself through the power of positivity!

Don't take it from me.. take it from Stanley Hudson... he knew:

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[Ashliana]

The way your party is going, I just have to wait to 2022 and Republicans will have control of Congress and President Biden.. I mean President Harris, will be powerless.

But let's get back to your self-loathing and how we can help you at least tolerate yourself through the power of positivity!

Don't take it from me.. take it from Stanley Hudson... he knew:

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/NeedyMeekAmericanpainthorse-size_restricted.gif

It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Parkbandit]

It's a new day, Ashliana.. a new opportunity to get on the Positivity bandwagon.

Give it a chance. Lord knows you need a change in your life.

https://media0.giphy.com/media/j6rP9fTKPzX12WGTYK/giphy-downsized.gif

[Parkbandit]

Where the hell did I leave my retarded puppet... let's see if we can find it..
​https://media4.giphy.com/media/oNw2xEiUlHJdLP3cGb/giphy.gif

[Ashliana]

Where the hell did I leave my retarded puppet... let's see if we can find it..
​https://media4.giphy.com/media/oNw2xEiUlHJdLP3cGb/giphy.gif

It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Parkbandit]

Where the hell did I leave my retarded puppet... let's see if we can find it..
​https://media4.giphy.com/media/oNw2xEiUlHJdLP3cGb/giphy.gif

So easy....

[Ashliana]

So easy....

It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Parkbandit]

https://media.tenor.com/images/bc6c995712f82fdf50ab3a3fa3e380bf/tenor.gif

[Ashliana]

https://media.tenor.com/images/bc6c995712f82fdf50ab3a3fa3e380bf/tenor.gif

It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Parkbandit]

https://media.tenor.com/images/a3288fec590e949dc994ea0e8abac3fa/tenor.gif

[Ashliana]

https://media.tenor.com/images/a3288fec590e949dc994ea0e8abac3fa/tenor.gif

It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Methais]

It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Parkbandit]

https://media.tenor.com/images/54acbdfc712ee8a02f69b7025549367d/tenor.gif

[Ashliana]

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif


https://media.tenor.com/images/54acbdfc712ee8a02f69b7025549367d/tenor.gif

It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Methais]

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Ashliana]

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

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[Parkbandit]

https://media.tenor.com/images/54acbdfc712ee8a02f69b7025549367d/tenor.gif

[Ashliana]

https://media.tenor.com/images/54acbdfc712ee8a02f69b7025549367d/tenor.gif

It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Parkbandit]

https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJleHBpcmVzX 2F0IjoxNjEzNTAwNTMxLCJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vbWVkaWE ucmJsLm1zL2ltYWdlP3U9JTJGZmlsZXMlMkYyMDE2JTJGMTAlM kYyMyUyRjYzNjEyNzk4NzYyNjIwNjMzNy00OTA1NjgyNDRfZ2l waHkuZ2lmJmhvPWh0dHBzJTNBJTJGJTJGYXo2MTY1Nzgudm8ub XNlY25kLm5ldCZzPTkyNCZoPTZjODcyNTVlZjcxMmYzZWVlYjh lZmI0MDJkZDYzYTkyYzIyMzVhMDQ4YjM4OWRkYTdjMzU1Y2Q5Y mU0NTA1ODYmc2l6ZT05ODB4JmM9Mjc4NzU2MjcyNiJ9.EbuKqP aBxKhLq3SCCG9f0rdvq-duhMx22qEBL1lVUgQ/img.jpg

[Ashliana]

https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJleHBpcmVzX 2F0IjoxNjEzNTAwNTMxLCJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vbWVkaWE ucmJsLm1zL2ltYWdlP3U9JTJGZmlsZXMlMkYyMDE2JTJGMTAlM kYyMyUyRjYzNjEyNzk4NzYyNjIwNjMzNy00OTA1NjgyNDRfZ2l waHkuZ2lmJmhvPWh0dHBzJTNBJTJGJTJGYXo2MTY1Nzgudm8ub XNlY25kLm5ldCZzPTkyNCZoPTZjODcyNTVlZjcxMmYzZWVlYjh lZmI0MDJkZDYzYTkyYzIyMzVhMDQ4YjM4OWRkYTdjMzU1Y2Q5Y mU0NTA1ODYmc2l6ZT05ODB4JmM9Mjc4NzU2MjcyNiJ9.EbuKqP aBxKhLq3SCCG9f0rdvq-duhMx22qEBL1lVUgQ/img.jpg

It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Parkbandit]

https://i.imgur.com/u7sFUC7.gif

[Ashliana]

https://i.imgur.com/u7sFUC7.gif

It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Parkbandit]

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/NimbleBoringAngelfish-size_restricted.gif

[Ashliana]

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/NimbleBoringAngelfish-size_restricted.gif

It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Methais]

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Ashliana]

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

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[Methais]

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[caelric]

It's very sad, ashy-poo, that this thread was created to help you be a better person, and a happier person, and yet, all you do is lash out.

Be better!

[Ashliana]

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif


It's very sad, ashy-poo, that this thread was created to help you be a better person, and a happier person, and yet, all you do is lash out.

Be better!

https://i.gifer.com/75Mh.gif

[caelric]

Better, little ashy-poo, be better!

[Parkbandit]

Better, little ashy-poo, be better!

Some people can't be better, they reached their pinnacle at like age 5.. and it's been a downward spiral since.

BUT that doesn't stop people from trying to preach POSITIVITY to people who are the epitome of toxic negativity.

https://media0.giphy.com/media/MYyIPGvh4e4gaXK61S/giphy.gif

[Ashliana]

Better, little ashy-poo, be better!

https://i.gifer.com/75Mh.gif


Some people can't be better, they reached their pinnacle at like age 5.. and it's been a downward spiral since.

BUT that doesn't stop people from trying to preach POSITIVITY to people who are the epitome of toxic negativity.

https://media0.giphy.com/media/MYyIPGvh4e4gaXK61S/giphy.gif

It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Methais]

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Ashliana]

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[Methais]

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[Ashliana]

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[Methais]

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[Ashliana]

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[Parkbandit]

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[Methais]

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[Ashliana]

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[Methais]

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[Ashliana]

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[Parkbandit]

Bumped in an attempt to keep the muppet having his meltdown here instead of every other topic.

This is a positive attempt to remove the toxicity from a certain retarded troll... you know who you are...

Now let the back and forth commence!

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/EnlightenedFabulousCoypu-size_restricted.gif

[Ashliana]

Bumped in an attempt to keep the muppet having his meltdown here instead of every other topic.

This is a positive attempt to remove the toxicity from a certain retarded troll... you know who you are...

Now let the back and forth commence!

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/EnlightenedFabulousCoypu-size_restricted.gif

Imagine deluding yourself into thinking you're ever going to control which threads I post in. Every time you furiously cycle through the rep system to leave me the same comment over and over again, you just give me extra incentive to keep putting you in your place at every opportunity, so thank you. :)

But it's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Methais]

Imagine deluding yourself into thinking you're ever going to control which threads I post in.

It looks like it worked though in this case.

But back to the important stuff...


https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif



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[Ashliana]

It looks like it worked though in this case.

But back to the important stuff...

Except his (verbatim, stated) goal is to get me to post solely in this thread. :) Which will never happen, much to his obvious dismay.


https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

Better luck next time!

[Methais]

https://i.imgur.com/uaieLgo.gif

[Ashliana]

https://i.imgur.com/uaieLgo.gif

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

Better luck next time!

[Parkbandit]

Except his (verbatim, stated) goal is to get me to post solely in this thread. :) Which will never happen, much to his obvious dismay.


No, this thread is a place where you can release all your toxicity and anger and have your daily meltdowns.. and maybe you can post in a normal manner in the other threads.

Pretend this is a different forum where your special kind of escapism is accepted and nurtured!

You're good at make believe, pretend and escapism... let if flow!

[Ashliana]

No, this thread is a place where you can release all your toxicity and anger and have your daily meltdowns.. and maybe you can post in a normal manner in the other threads.

Pretend this is a different forum where your special kind of escapism is accepted and nurtured!

You're good at make believe, pretend and escapism... let if flow!

It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Parkbandit]

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/EnlightenedFabulousCoypu-size_restricted.gif

[Ashliana]

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/EnlightenedFabulousCoypu-size_restricted.gif

It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Methais]

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

Better luck next time!

https://i.imgur.com/uaieLgo.gif

Mine is better because reasons.

[Ashliana]

https://i.imgur.com/uaieLgo.gif

Mine is better because reasons.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Parkbandit]

https://media3.giphy.com/media/LGShl9I1rsNW/source.gif

[Ashliana]

https://media3.giphy.com/media/LGShl9I1rsNW/source.gif

It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Methais]

https://media3.giphy.com/media/LGShl9I1rsNW/source.gif

:lol:

[Ashliana]

:lol:

https://i.imgflip.com/4588b6.png

[Methais]

https://i.imgflip.com/4588b6.png

Did me laughing at PB's gif upset you?

Protip: Things aren't always about you. I know this disappoints you. It's a funny gif even without your chronic butthurt being involved.

You poor victim.

It's time for some positivity up in here!

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Parkbandit]

Did me laughing at PB's gif upset you?

Protip: Things aren't always about you. I know this disappoints you. It's a funny gif even without your chronic butthurt being involved.

You poor victim.

It's time for some positivity up in here!



No, It's right... that was an actual artist depiction of It's posting. Notice how It has to post the same thing over and over and over and over? It's because It's stuck in a retard loop... regurgitating all over the place and being a general crab.
https://media3.giphy.com/media/LGShl9I1rsNW/source.gif

[Methais]

No, It's right... that was an actual artist depiction of It's posting. Notice how It has to post the same thing over and over and over and over? It's because It's stuck in a retard loop... regurgitating all over the place and being a general crab.
https://media3.giphy.com/media/LGShl9I1rsNW/source.gif

What I'm saying is I just scrolled down, saw that gif, and laughed regardless of the context. And Ashliana's mad at me for that now. :(

That doesn't sound very positive.

[Ashliana]

Did me laughing at PB's gif upset you?

Protip: Things aren't always about you. I know this disappoints you. It's a funny gif even without your chronic butthurt being involved.

You poor victim.

It's time for some positivity up in here!

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

"Things aren't always about you!" Methais cried, posting for the dozenth upon dozenth time in the thread entitled "A thread for Ashliana."

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif


No, It's right... that was an actual artist depiction of It's posting. Notice how It has to post the same thing over and over and over and over? It's because It's stuck in a retard loop... regurgitating all over the place and being a general crab.
https://media3.giphy.com/media/LGShl9I1rsNW/source.gif

"Notice how Ashliana has to post the same thing over and over?" as Parkbandit posted the same image again, the newest in his third cycle or fourth cycle of dozens of identical or near-identical messages, part of his ongoing post-Trump loss meltdown.

But it's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Methais]

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

https://media3.giphy.com/media/LGShl9I1rsNW/source.gif

[Ashliana]

https://media3.giphy.com/media/LGShl9I1rsNW/source.gif

https://i.imgflip.com/4588b6.png

[Methais]

https://i.imgflip.com/4588b6.png

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tqqwTgk8ri0/maxresdefault.jpg

[Ashliana]

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tqqwTgk8ri0/maxresdefault.jpg

https://res.cloudinary.com/teepublic/image/private/s--YOdp5pU8--/c_crop,x_10,y_10/c_fit,w_747/c_crop,g_north_west,h_1038,w_1038,x_-145,y_-161/l_upload:v1565806151:production:blanks:vdbwo35fw6q tflw9kezw/fl_layer_apply,g_north_west,x_-256,y_-272/b_rgb:000000/c_limit,f_jpg,h_630,q_90,w_630/v1604541365/production/designs/15771234_0.jpg

[Methais]

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[Parkbandit]

https://media3.giphy.com/media/LGShl9I1rsNW/source.gif

[Methais]

https://media3.giphy.com/media/LGShl9I1rsNW/source.gif

:lol:

[Ashliana]

https://media1.giphy.com/media/3oKIP7tGNW4dMi5Ixq/source.gif

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif


https://media3.giphy.com/media/LGShl9I1rsNW/source.gif

It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Parkbandit]

It's going to be a difficult day for Ashliana and many others today. President Trump is going to have his first speech at CPAC.. and you know that will flare up the old TDS.

Prepare for the meltdown. Think positively... imagine if you had no control over your emotions and the doctor won't prescribe pills.

He's going to need all of our positive thoughts today.

This is how we should all treat Ashliana.. just beat the stupid out of him.

https://media.tenor.com/images/db06e05687e068323b62191f60c308b7/tenor.gif

[Parkbandit]

Bump because I know Ashliana tends to get lost a lot...

I'll even use catnip to lure It in...

https://media4.giphy.com/media/fwty984Thkh4kiFpcu/giphy.gif

[Ashliana]

Bump because I know Ashliana tends to get lost a lot...

I'll even use catnip to lure It in...

https://media4.giphy.com/media/fwty984Thkh4kiFpcu/giphy.gif

It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[caelric]

Bump because I know Ashliana tends to get lost a lot...

I'll even use catnip to lure It in...

https://media4.giphy.com/media/fwty984Thkh4kiFpcu/giphy.gif

That link was rather disturbing. Was that ashliana?

[Ashliana]

That link was rather disturbing. Was that ashliana?

No, that was one of Parkbandit's treasured images from his stock of fantasies. Or do you not know about his multiple decade-spanning obsession with other men on the Internet? Some friend you are.

[Parkbandit]

That link was rather disturbing. Was that ashliana?

I said "catnip", not "catfish".

It was just a way to ensure Ashliana would post in this specific thread.

[Ashliana]

I said "catnip", not "catfish".

It was just a way to ensure Ashliana would post in this specific thread.

It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Parkbandit]

https://media4.giphy.com/media/fwty984Thkh4kiFpcu/giphy.gif

[Ashliana]

https://media4.giphy.com/media/fwty984Thkh4kiFpcu/giphy.gif

https://media3.giphy.com/media/LGShl9I1rsNW/source.gif

[Parkbandit]

https://media3.giphy.com/media/LGShl9I1rsNW/source.gif

[Ashliana]

https://media3.giphy.com/media/LGShl9I1rsNW/source.gif

It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Parkbandit]

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Methais]

It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif



It's okay, Ashliana. Trump may have spectacularly made you butthurt for 4 years and even now after he's out of office -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Trump's 2016 victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://media3.giphy.com/media/LGShl9I1rsNW/source.gif

[Ashliana]

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif


It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif


It's okay, Ashliana. Trump may have spectacularly made you butthurt for 4 years and even now after he's out of office -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Trump's 2016 victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.



Except for that whole inconvenient part where I didn't post after Trump's 2016 victory, so your reference to a nonexistent "epic meltdown" doesn't do much justice. On the flip side, this thread itself is ongoing evidence of PB's (and yours) post-Trump loss. :)

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Methais]

Except for that whole inconvenient part where I didn't post after Trump's 2016 victory, so your reference to a nonexistent "epic meltdown" doesn't do much justice. On the flip side, this thread itself is ongoing evidence of PB's (and yours) post-Trump loss. :)

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

Yes, we're totally having meltdowns over it. That's why you're the only one here who refuses to embrace the POWER OF POSITIVITY!!

But let's try again. Look, it even has rainbows. That should help, I hope.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZkfHdk-_nI

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Ashliana]

Yes, we're totally having meltdowns over it. That's why you're the only one here who refuses to embrace the POWER OF POSITIVITY!!

But let's try again. Look, it even has rainbows. That should help, I hope.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZkfHdk-_nI

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Methais]

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Ashliana]

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Methais]

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Ashliana]

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Parkbandit]

It's okay, Ashliana. Trump may have spectacularly made you butthurt for 4 years and even now after he's out of office -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Trump's 2016 victory when you didn't post for a long time because you were in bed crying-- but you "survived" then and you'll "survive" now. Just hang in there a little longer.

I hope you don't mind me using that Methais. Afterall, you are using the picture that accurately portrays Ashliana's posting style..

.https://media3.giphy.com/media/LGShl9I1rsNW/source.gif

[Ashliana]

It's okay, Ashliana. Trump may have spectacularly made you butthurt for 4 years and even now after he's out of office -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Trump's 2016 victory when you didn't post for a long time because you were in bed crying-- but you "survived" then and you'll "survive" now. Just hang in there a little longer.

I hope you don't mind me using that Methais. Afterall, you are using the picture that accurately portrays Ashliana's posting style..

Nobody's surprised you threw in your lot with an assertion Methais couldn't (and can't) demonstrate. Without a shred of irony or self-awareness, you fell for "fake news," the trade mark willful ignorance of Republicans. Thanks for, yet again, pointing out your own abject stupidity that one would expect of an uneducated tradesman from Florida.

But it's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Bhaalizmo]

I keep expecting to come back to this thread and it will have devolved into grudge fucking.

I am dissapoint.

https://media.giphy.com/media/dasKasTIZQgoBsjGow/giphy.gif

[Parkbandit]

I keep expecting to come back to this thread and it will have devolved into grudge fucking.

I am dissapoint.

https://media.giphy.com/media/dasKasTIZQgoBsjGow/giphy.gif

I'm not surprised you are disappointed that there aren't a bunch of guys and Ashliana fucking.

[Parkbandit]

It's okay, Ashliana. Trump may have spectacularly made you butthurt for 4 years and even now after he's out of office -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Trump's 2016 victory when you didn't post for a long time because you were in bed crying-- but you "survived" then and you'll "survive" now. Just hang in there a little longer.


.https://media3.giphy.com/media/LGShl9I1rsNW/source.gif

[Ashliana]

Parkbandit: "Not posting on the PC during any given period means you had a meltdown! HURRR!"

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/940/357/2dd.jpg

But It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Parkbandit]

It's okay, Ashliana. Trump may have spectacularly made you butthurt for 4 years and even now after he's out of office -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Trump's 2016 victory when you didn't post for a long time because you were in bed crying-- but you "survived" then and you'll "survive" now. Just hang in there a little longer.


.https://media3.giphy.com/media/LGShl9I1rsNW/source.gif

[Ashliana]

Parkbandit: "Not posting on the PC during any given period means you had a meltdown! HURRR!"

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/940/357/2dd.jpg

But It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Methais]

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif


Positive psychology
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Positive psychology is the study of "positive subjective experience, positive individual traits, and positive institutions ... it promises to improve quality of life."[citation needed] Positive psychology focuses on both individual and societal well-being.[1] It is a field of study that has been growing steadily throughout the years as individuals and researchers look for common ground on better well-being.[2]

Positive psychology began as a new domain of psychology in 1998 when Martin Seligman chose it as the theme for his term as president of the American Psychological Association.[3][4][5] It is a reaction against past practices, which have tended to focus on mental illness and emphasized maladaptive behavior and negative thinking. It builds on the humanistic movement by Abraham Maslow, Rollo May, James Bugental and Carl Rogers, which encouraged an emphasis on happiness, well-being, and positivity, thus creating the foundation for what is now known as positive psychology.[5]

Positive psychology is concerned with eudaimonia, an Ancient Greek term for "the good life" and the concept for reflection on the factors that contribute the most to a well-lived and fulfilling life. Positive psychologists often use the terms subjective well-being and happiness interchangeably.[6]

Positive psychologists have suggested a number of factors may contribute to happiness and subjective well-being. Those suggested ways include social ties with a spouse, family, friends, colleagues, and wider networks; membership in clubs or social organizations; physical exercise and the practice of meditation. Spirituality can also be considered a factor that lead to increased individual happiness and well-being. With spiritual practice and religious commitment being a topic researchers have been studying as another possible source for increased well-being and an added part of positive psychology.[7] Happiness may rise with increasing financial income, though it may plateau or even fall when no further gains are made or after a certain cut-off amount.[8]


Contents
1 Definition and basic assumptions
1.1 Definition
1.2 Basic concepts
1.3 Research topics
2 History
2.1 Origin
2.2 Development
2.3 Influences
3 Core theory and methods
3.1 Initial theory: three paths to happiness
3.2 PERMA
3.3 VIA Institute on Character
3.4 Character Strengths and Virtues
3.5 Flow
4 Research advances and applications
4.1 Research findings
4.2 Academic methods
4.3 National indices of happiness
5 Influences on other academic fields
5.1 Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS)
5.2 Psychiatry
6 Popular culture
6.1 Books
6.2 Films
6.3 Wellness industry
7 Criticism
7.1 Reality distortion
7.2 Narrow focus
7.3 Role of negativity
7.4 Toxic positivity
8 See also
9 Notes
10 References
10.1 Footnotes
10.2 Bibliography
11 Further reading
12 External links
Definition and basic assumptions
Definition
Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi define positive psychology as "the scientific study of positive human functioning and flourishing on multiple levels that include the biological, personal, relational, institutional, cultural, and global dimensions of life."[9]

Basic concepts
Positive psychology is concerned with eudaimonia, "the good life" or flourishing, living according to what holds the greatest value in life and other such factors that contribute the most to a well-lived and fulfilling life. While not attempting a strict definition of the good life, positive psychologists agree that one must live a happy, engaged, and meaningful life in order to experience "the good life.” Martin Seligman referred to "the good life" as "using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification."[10]

Positive psychology complements, without intending to replace or ignore, the traditional areas of psychology. By emphasizing the study of positive human development, this field helps to balance other approaches that focus on disorder, and which may produce only limited understanding.[11] Positive psychology has also placed a significant emphasis on fostering positive self-esteem and self-image, though positive psychologists with a less humanist direction are less likely to focus as intently on such topics.[12]

The basic premise of positive psychology is that human beings are often drawn by the future more than they are driven by the past. A change in our orientation to time can dramatically affect how we think about the nature of happiness. Another aspect of this may come from our views outside of our own lives. As author of Grit Angela Duckworth might view this as having an other-centered purpose, of which could have a positive psychological affect on our lives.[13] Seligman identified other possible goals: families and schools that allow children to grow, workplaces that aim for satisfaction and high productivity, and teaching others about positive psychology.[14] Psychologist Daniel Gilbert has also written extensively on the affects of time perception and happiness.[15]

Those who practice positive psychology attempt psychological interventions that foster positive attitudes toward one's subjective experiences, individual traits, and life events.[16] The goal is to minimize pathological thoughts that may arise in a hopeless mindset and to develop a sense of optimism toward life.[16] Positive psychologists seek to encourage acceptance of one's past, excitement and optimism about one's future experiences, and a sense of contentment and well-being in the present.[17]

Related concepts are happiness, well-being, quality of life, contentment,[18] and meaningful life.

- Happiness: Has been sought after and discussed throughout time. Research has concluded that happiness can be thought of in the way we act or what we do and how we think in relative terms to it.[19]

- Well-Being: Has often been referred to what is inherently good for an individual both physically and mentally, though other aspects could be added in to define well-being.[20]

- Quality of life: Quality of life encompasses more than just physical and mental well-being, it involves socioeconomic factors. It is also perceived differently in different cultures and regions around the world, but can come down to how well you are living and functioning in life.[21]

Research topics
According to Seligman and Peterson, positive psychology addresses three issues: positive emotions, positive individual traits, and positive institutions. Positive emotions are concerned with being content with one's past, being happy in the present and having hope for the future. Positive individual traits focus on one's strengths and virtues. Finally, positive institutions are based on strengths to better a community of people.[14]

According to Peterson, positive psychologists are concerned with four topics: positive experiences, enduring psychological traits, positive relationships, and positive institutions.[11] He also states that topics of interest to topics of interest to researchers in the field are states of pleasure or flow, values, strengths, virtues, talents, as well as the ways that these can be promoted by social systems and institutions.[22]

History

To Martin Seligman, psychology (particularly its positive branch) can investigate and promote realistic ways of fostering more well-being in individuals and communities.
Origin
While the formal discipline of positive psychology has only existed since 2000,[1] the concepts that form the basis of it have been present in religious and philosophical discourse for thousands of years.[23] The field of psychology predating the use of the term "positive psychology" has seen researchers who focused primarily on topics that would now be included under the umbrella of positive psychology.[24]

The term positive psychology dates back at least to 1954, when Maslow's first edition of Motivation and Personality was published with a final chapter titled "Toward a Positive Psychology."[25] In the second edition published in 1970, he removed that chapter, saying in the preface that "a positive psychology is at least available today though not very widely."[25] There have been indications that psychologists since the 1950s have been increasingly focused on the promotion of mental health rather than merely treating mental illness.[26][27] From the beginning of psychology, the field has addressed the human experience using the "Disease Model," specifically studying and identifying the dysfunction of an individual.

Positive psychology grew as an important field of study within psychology in 1998 when Martin Seligman chose it as the theme for his term as president of the American Psychological Association.[3][28] In the first sentence of his book Authentic Happiness, Seligman claimed: "for the last half century psychology has been consumed with a single topic only – mental illness,"[29] expanding on Maslow's comments.[a] He urged psychologists to continue the earlier missions of psychology of nurturing talent and improving normal life.[31]

Development
The first positive psychology summit took place in 1999. The First International Conference on Positive Psychology took place in 2002.[31] More attention was given by the general public in 2006 when, using the same framework, a course at Harvard University became particularly popular.[32] In June 2009, the First World Congress on Positive Psychology took place at the University of Pennsylvania.[33]

The International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) is a recently established association that has expanded to thousands of members from 80 different countries. The IPPA's missions include: (1) "further the science of positive psychology across the globe and to ensure that the field continues to rest on this science" (2) "work for the effective and responsible application of positive psychology in diverse areas such as organizational psychology, counselling and clinical psychology, business, health, education, and coaching," (3) "foster education and training in the field."[34]

The field of positive psychology today is most advanced in the United States and Western Europe. Even though positive psychology offers a new approach to the study of positive emotions and behavior, the ideas, theories, research, and motivation to study the positive side of human behavior is as old as humanity.[35]

Influences
Several humanistic psychologists, most notably Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, and Erich Fromm, developed theories and practices pertaining to human happiness and flourishing. More recently, positive psychologists have found empirical support for the humanistic theories of flourishing. In addition, positive psychology has moved ahead in a variety of new directions.

In 1984, Diener published his tripartite model of subjective well-being, positing "three distinct but often related components of wellbeing: frequent positive affect, infrequent negative affect, and cognitive evaluations such as life satisfaction."[36] In this model, cognitive, affective and contextual factors contribute to subjective well-being.[37] According to Diener and Suh, subjective well-being is "based on the idea that how each person thinks and feels about his or her life is important."[38]

Carol Ryff's Six-factor Model of Psychological Well-being was initially published in 1989, and additional testing of its factors was published in 1995. It postulates six factors which are key for well-being, namely self-acceptance, personal growth, purpose in life, environmental mastery, autonomy, and positive relations with others.[39]

According to Corey Keyes, who collaborated with Carol Ryff and uses the term flourishing as a central concept, mental well-being has three components, namely hedonic (c.q. subjective or emotional[40]), psychological, and social well-being.[41] Hedonic well-being concerns emotional aspects of well-being, whereas psychological and social well-being, c.q. eudaimonic well-being, concerns skills, abilities, and optimal functioning.[42] This tripartite model of mental well-being has received extensive empirical support across cultures.[42][40][43][44]

Influences in Ancient History
While the formal title "positive psychology" has only been around for the past two decades,[1] the concepts that form the basis of this field have been present in religious and philosophical discourse for thousands of years. The field of psychology predating the use of the term positive psychology has seen researchers who focused primarily on topics that would now be included under the umbrella of positive psychology.[24] Some view positive psychology as a meeting of Eastern thought, such as Buddhism, and Western psychodynamic approaches.[45] The historical roots of positive psychology are found in the teachings of Aristotle, whose Nicomachean Ethics teach the cultivation of moral virtue as the means of attaining happiness and well-being, which he referred to as eudaimonia.

Core theory and methods
Main article: Well-being
There is no accepted "gold standard" theory in positive psychology, however, the work of Seligman is regularly quoted.[46] So too the work of Csikszentmihalyi and older models of well-being, such as Carol Ryff's Six-factor Model of Psychological Well-being and Diener's tripartite model of subjective well-being.

Initial theory: three paths to happiness
In Authentic Happiness (2002) Seligman proposed three kinds of a happy life which can be investigated:[47][46]

Pleasant life: research into the Pleasant Life, or the "life of enjoyment," examines how people optimally experience, forecast , and savor the positive feelings and emotions that are part of normal and healthy living (e.g., relationships, hobbies, interests, entertainment, etc.). Despite the attention given, Martin Seligman says this most transient element of happiness may be the least important.[48]
Good Life: investigation of the beneficial effects of immersion, absorption, and flow , felt by individuals when optimally engaged with their primary activities, is the study of the Good Life, or the "life of engagement." Flow is experienced when there is a positive match between a person's strength and their current task, i.e., when one feels confident of accomplishing a chosen or assigned task.
Meaningful Life: inquiry into the Meaningful Life , or "life of affiliation," questions how individuals derive a positive sense of well-being, belonging, meaning, and purpose from being part of and contributing back to something larger and more permanent than themselves (e.g., nature, social groups, organizations, movements, traditions, belief systems).
PERMA
In Flourish (2011) Seligman argued that the last category of his proposed three kinds of a happy life, "meaningful life," can be considered as 3 different categories. The resulting summary for this theory is Seligman's PERMA acronym: Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning and purpose, and Accomplishments.[49] It is a mnemonic for the five elements of Martin Seligman's well-being theory:[46][50]

Positive emotions include a wide range of feelings, not just happiness and joy.[51] Included are emotions like excitement, satisfaction, pride and awe, amongst others. These emotions are frequently seen as connected to positive outcomes, such as longer life and healthier social relationships.[52]
Engagement refers to involvement in activities that draws and builds upon one's interests. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi explains true engagement as flow, a state of deep effortless involvement,[49] feeling of intensity that leads to a sense of ecstasy and clarity.[53] The task being done needs to call upon higher skill and be a bit difficult and challenging yet still possible. Engagement involves passion for and concentration on the task at hand and is assessed subjectively as to whether the person engaged was completely absorbed, losing self-consciousness.[51]
Relationships are essential in fueling positive emotions,[54] whether they are work-related, familial, romantic, or platonic. As Christopher Peterson puts it simply, "other people matter."[55] Humans receive, share, and spread positivity to others through relationships. They are important not only in bad times, but good times as well. In fact, relationships can be strengthened by reacting to one another positively. It is typical that most positive things take place in the presence of other people.[56]
Meaning is also known as purpose, and prompts the question of "why." Discovering and figuring out a clear "why" puts everything into context from work to relationships to other parts of life.[57] Finding meaning is learning that there is something greater than one's self. Despite potential challenges, working with meaning drives people to continue striving for a desirable goal.
Accomplishments are the pursuit of success and mastery.[51] Unlike the other parts of PERMA, they are sometimes pursued even when accomplishments do not result in positive emotions, meaning, or relationships. That being noted, accomplishments can activate the other elements of PERMA, such as pride, under positive emotion.[58] Accomplishments can be individual or community-based, fun- or work-based.
Each of the five PERMA elements was selected according to three criteria:

It contributes to well-being.
It is pursued for its own sake.
It is defined and measured independently of the other elements.
VIA Institute on Character
The VIA Institute on Character, founded in 1999 by Neal Mayerson and Martin Seligman,[59] was one of the first institutes created to study character strengths within positive psychology. The VIA Institute on Character, which is based in Cincinnati, OH, is a non-profit organization that provides survey measurement of character strengths. The "VIA" in the institute's name is a historical acronym for "Values in Action," although the current official name has dropped the full phrase and is shortened to VIA (pronounced "vee-uh") Institute.[60]

The organization produces a Values in Action Inventory of Strengths, more simply referred to as the "VIA Survey." The VIA Survey helps to identify and understand survey takers' character strengths. There are modified surveys for both adult individuals (VIA Survey) and youth populations (VIA Youth Survey). The work and research conducted by the VIA Institute preceded and provided the foundation to the 2004 book written by Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman, Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification (CSV).[59]

Since 1999, the VIA Survey has had over 13 million survey takers, has been taken in 195 countries in the world, is available in 41 language translations, and has been included in 500 academic research studies to date.[60] It is a widespread survey methodology and tool that positive psychologists, researchers, managers, teachers, and other professionals use to assess survey takers' character strengths. Published research findings that leveraged the VIA surveys span topics from understanding "signature" strengths, the connection between well-being/happiness and character strengths, the tie between mindfulness and character strengths, and how character strengths affect positive relationships.[61] Academic journal publications that used VIA surveys have also provided research findings on how to apply character strengths in the workplace, at school, in parenting, and in film representation.[61]

Character Strengths and Virtues
Main article: Character Strengths and Virtues
See also: Character education, Values education, and Values in Action Inventory of Strengths
The development of the Character Strengths and Virtues (CSV) handbook (2004) represented the first attempt by Seligman and Peterson to identify and classify positive psychological traits of human beings. Much like the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of general psychology, the CSV provided a theoretical framework to assist in understanding strengths and virtues and for developing practical applications for positive psychology. This manual identified 6 classes of virtues (i.e., "core virtues"), underlying 24 measurable character strengths.[62]

The CSV suggested these 6 virtues have a historical basis in the vast majority of cultures; in addition, these virtues and strengths can lead to increased happiness when built upon. Notwithstanding numerous cautions and caveats, this suggestion of universality hints threefold: 1) The study of positive human qualities broadens the scope of psychological research to include mental wellness, 2) the leaders of the positive psychology movement are challenging moral relativism, suggesting people are "evolutionarily predisposed" toward certain virtues, and 3) virtue has a biological basis.[63]

The organization of the 6 virtues and 24 strengths is as follows:

Wisdom and knowledge: creativity, curiosity, open-mindedness, love of learning, perspective, innovation
Courage: bravery, persistence, integrity, vitality, zest
Humanity: love, kindness, social intelligence
Justice: citizenship, fairness, leadership
Temperance: forgiveness and mercy, humility, prudence, self control
Transcendence: appreciation of beauty and excellence, gratitude, hope, humor, spirituality
Recent research challenged the need for 6 virtues. Instead, researchers suggested the 24 strengths are more accurately grouped into just 3 or 4 categories: Intellectual Strengths, Interpersonal Strengths, and Temperance Strengths,[64] or alternatively, Interpersonal Strengths, Fortitude, Vitality, and Cautiousness[65] . These strengths, and their classifications, have emerged independently elsewhere in literature on values. Paul Thagard described examples, which included Jeff Shrager's workshops to discover the habits of highly creative people.[66] Some research indicates that well-being effects that appear to be due to spirituality are actually better described as due to virtue.[67]

Flow
Main article: Flow (psychology)
See also: Peak experience
In the 1970s, Csikszentmihalyi began studying flow, a state of absorption where one's abilities are well-matched to the demands at-hand. Flow is characterized by intense concentration, loss of self-awareness, a feeling of being perfectly challenged (neither bored nor overwhelmed), and a sense that "time is flying." Flow is intrinsically rewarding; it can also assist in the achievement of goals (e.g., winning a game) or improving skills (e.g., becoming a better chess player).[68] Anyone can experience flow and it can be felt in different domains, such as play, creativity, and work. Flow is achieved when the challenge of the situation meets one's personal abilities. A mismatch of challenge for someone of low skills results in a state of anxiety; insufficient challenge for someone highly skilled results in boredom.[68]

Research advances and applications
Main article: Well-being contributing factors
Topical and methodological development has expanded the field of positive psychology. These advances have enabled the field of positive psychology to grow beyond its core theories and methods. Positive psychology is now a global area of study, with various national indices tracking citizens' happiness ratings.

Research findings
Research in positive psychology, well-being, eudaimonia and happiness, and the theories of Diener, Ryff, Keyes and Seligman cover a broad range of topics including "the biological, personal, relational, institutional, cultural, and global dimensions of life." A meta-analysis on 49 studies in 2009 showed that Positive Psychology Interventions (PPI) produced improvements in well-being and lower depression levels, the PPIs studied included writing gratitude letters, learning optimistic thinking, replaying positive life experiences and socializing with others. In a later meta-analysis of 39 studies with 6,139 participants in 2012, the outcomes were positive. Three to six months after a PPI the effects for subjective well-being and psychological well-being were still significant. However the positive effect was weaker than in the 2009 meta analysis, the authors concluded that this was because they only used higher quality studies. The PPIs they considered included counting blessings, kindness practices, making personal goals, showing gratitude and focusing on personal strengths. Another review of PPIs published in 2018 found that over 78% of intervention studies were conducted in Western countries.

In the textbook Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness, authors Compton and Hoffman give the "Top Down Predictors" of well-being as high self esteem, optimism, self efficacy, a sense of meaning in life and positive relationships with others. The personality traits most associated with well being are extraversion, agreeability and low levels of neuroticism.

Academic methods
Quantitative
One of the first major textbooks published on the topic of positive psychology is Oxford University Press's 2002 Handbook of Positive Psychology. In 2007, a second volume followed, entitled Oxford Handbook of Methods in Positive Psychology and edited by Anthony D. Ong and Manfred H.M. van Dulmen. The Oxford Handbook of Methods in Positive Psychology provides a broad overview of primarily quantitative methodological approaches to studying positive psychology. It provides coverage of updated methods for conducting robust and sophisticated quantitative research on positive psychology. Such methods include p-technique factor analysis, dynamic factor analysis, interindividual differences and structural equation modeling, spectral analysis and item response models, dynamic systems analysis, latent growth analysis, latent-class models, hierarchical linear modeling, measurement invariance, experimental methods, behavior genetics, and integration of quantitative and qualitative approaches.[69]

Qualitative
In a 2012 Journal of Positive Psychology article published by Grant J. Rich, the usage of qualitative methodology to study positive psychology is explored and considered.[70] Author Rich addresses the popularity of quantitative methods in studying the empirical questions that positive psychology presents. He argues that there is an "overemphasis" on quantitative methods and suggests implementing qualitative methods, such as semi-structured interviews, observations, fieldwork, creative artwork, and focus groups. Rich states that qualitative approaches are valuable approaches to studying positive psychology. He writes that usage of qualitative methods will further promote the "flourishing of positive psychology" and encourages such practice.[70]

Behavioral interventions
Changing happiness levels through interventions is a further methodological advancement in the study of positive psychology. Enhancing happiness through behavioral interventions has been the focus of various academic and scientific psychological publications. Happiness-enhancing interventions include expressing kindness, gratitude, optimism, humility, awe, and mindfulness.

In 2005, Sonja Lyubomirsky, Kennon M. Sheldon, and David Schkade co-authored an academic paper published in the journal Review of General Psychology.[71] In their research, they created a behavioral experiment using two 6-week interventions. One intervention studied was the performance of acts of kindness. The other was focused on gratitude and emphasized the counting of one's blessings. The study participants who went through the behavioral interventions reported higher levels of happiness and well-being than those who did not participate in either intervention. The paper provides experimental support for the effect of gratitude and kindness on enhancing subjective well-being and happiness.

Further research conducted by Sonja Lyubomirsky, Rene Dickerhoof, Julia K. Boehm, and Kennon M. Sheldon, published in 2011 in the academic journal Emotion, found that the interventions of expressing optimism and expressing gratitude enhanced subjective well-being in participants who took part in the intervention for 8 months.[72] The researchers concluded that interventions are "most successful when participants know about, endorse, and commit to the intervention."[72] The article provides support that when individuals enthusiastically take part in behavioral interventions, such as expression of optimism and gratitude, they may be engaging in an approach to increase happiness and subjective well-being.

In 2014, Elliott Kruse, Joseph Chancellor, Peter M. Ruberton, and Sonja Lyubomirsky published an academic article in the journal Social Psychology and Personality Science.[73] In their research, they study the interaction effects between gratitude and humility through behavior interventions. The interventions they studied were writing a gratitude letter and writing a 14-day diary. In both interventions, Kruse et al. found that gratitude and humility are connected and are "mutually reinforcing."[73] The article also discusses how gratitude, and its associated humility, may lead to more positive emotional states and subjective well-being.

Researchers Melanie Rudd, Kathleen D. Vohs, and Jennifer Aaker conducted a series of experiments that showed a positive effect of awe on subjective well-being, publishing their results in 2012 in the academic journal Psychological Science.[74] Their research found that individuals who felt awe also reported feeling higher availability of time, more preference for experiential expenditures than material expenditures, and greater life satisfaction. Experiences that heighten awe may lead to higher levels of life satisfaction and, in turn, higher levels of happiness and subjective well-being.

Mindfulness interventions may also increase happiness. In a Mindfulness article published in 2011 by Torbjörn Josefsson, Pernilla Larsman, Anders G. Broberg, and Lars-Gunnar Lundh, it was found that meditation improves subjective well-being for individuals who mindfully meditate.[75] The researchers note that being mindful in meditation includes awareness and observation of one's meditation practice, with non-reaction and non-judgmental sentiments during meditation.

National indices of happiness
The creation of various national indices of happiness have broadened and expanded the field of positive psychology to a global scale.

In a January 2000 academic article published in American Psychologist, psychologist Ed Diener proposed and argued for the creation of a national happiness index in the United States.[76] Such an index would provide measurements of happiness, or subjective well-being, within the United States and across many other countries in the world. Diener argued that national indices would be helpful markers or indicators of population happiness, providing a sense of current ratings and a tracker of happiness across time. Diener proposed that the national index include various sub-measurements of subjective well-being, including "pleasant affect, unpleasant affect, life satisfaction, fulfillment, and more specific states such as stress, affection, trust, and joy."[76]

In 2012, the first World Happiness Report was published. The World Happiness Report was initiated by the UN General Assembly in June 2011, which passed the Bhutanese Resolution.[77] The Bhutanese Resolution called for nations across the world to "give more importance to happiness and well-being in determining how to achieve and measure social and economic development."[77] The data for the World Happiness Reports is collected in partnership with the Gallup World Poll's life evaluations and annual happiness rankings. The World Happiness Report bases its national rankings on how happy constituents self-report and believe themselves to be.

The first World Happiness Report, published in 2012, is a 170-page report that details the state of world happiness, the causes of happiness and misery, policy implications from happiness reports, and three case studies of subjective well-being for 1) Bhutan and its Gross National Happiness index, 2) the U.K. Office for National Statistics Experience, and 3) happiness in the member countries within the OECD.[78] The World Happiness Report published in 2020 is the 8th publication in the series of reports. It is the first World Happiness Report to include happiness rankings of cities across the world, in addition to rankings of 156 countries. The city of Helsinki, Finland was reported as the city with the highest subjective well-being ranking,[79] and the country of Finland was reported as the country with the highest subjective well-being ranking for the third year in a row.[80] The 2020 report provides insights on happiness based on environmental conditions, social conditions, urban-rural happiness differentials, and sustainable development.[81] It also provides overview and possible explanations for why Nordic countries have consistently ranked in the top ten happiest countries in the World Happiness Report since 2013.[82] Possible explanations include Nordic countries' high-quality government benefits and protections to its citizens, including welfare benefits and well-operated democratic institutions, as well as social connections, bonding, and trust.[82]

Additional national well-being indices and reported statistics include the Gallup Global Emotions Report,[83] Gallup Sharecare Well-Being Index,[84] Global Happiness Council's Global Happiness and Well-being Policy Report,[85] Happy Planet Index,[86] Indigo Wellness Index,[87] OECD Better Life Index,[88] and UN Human Development Reports.[89]

Influences on other academic fields
Positive psychology has influenced a variety of other academic fields of study and scholarship. It has been applied to various other areas of scholarship, most notably Organizational Behavior and Psychiatry.

Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS)
Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS), also referred to as Positive Organizational Behavior (POB), began as a direct application of positive psychology to the field of organizational behavior. One of the first times the term was officially defined and published was in 2003, in the text Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline edited by University of Michigan Ross School of Business professors Kim S. Cameron, Jane E. Dutton, and Robert E. Quinn.[90] In the first chapter of the text, Cameron, Dutton, and Quinn promote "the best of the human condition," such as goodness, compassion, resilience, and positive human potential, as an organizational goal as important as financial organizational success.[90] The goal of POS is to study the factors that create positive work experiences and successful, people-oriented organizational outcomes.

A large collection of POS research is contained in the 2011 volume The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship, edited by University of Michigan Ross School of Business Professors Kim S. Cameron and Gretchen M. Spreitzer.[91] This 1076-page volume encompasses nine sections and 79 chapters spanning various topics. Major topics include positive human resource practices, positive organizational practices, and positive leadership and change. Much of the volume expands upon and applies core concepts of positive psychology to the workplace context, covering areas such as positive individual attributes, positive emotions, strengths and virtues, and positive relationships. A further definition of POS, as written by editors Cameron and Spreitzer:

Positive organizational scholarship rigorously seeks to understand what represents the best of the human condition based on scholarly research and theory. Just as positive psychology focuses on exploring optimal individual psychological states rather than pathological ones, organizational scholarship focuses attention on the generative dynamics in organizations that lead to the development of human strength, foster resiliency in employees, enable healing and restoration, and cultivate extraordinary individual and organizational performance. POS emphasizes what elevates individuals and organizations (in addition to what challenges them), what goes right in organizations (in addition to what goes wrong), what is life-giving (in addition to what is problematic or life-depleting), what is experienced as good (in addition to what is objectionable), and what is inspiring (in addition to what is difficult or arduous).

— Kim S. Cameron and Gretchen M. Spreitzer, "Chapter 1. Introduction: What is Positive about Positive Organizational Scholarship?" The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship (2011)[91]
Psychiatry
Positive psychology has influenced psychiatry by providing additional therapeutic and cognitive behavior shifts, including well-being therapy, positive psychotherapy, and practicing an integration of positive psychology in therapeutic practice.[92]

In an 2015 academic article published in Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, Mills and Kreutzer argue for the principles of positive psychology to be implemented to assist those recovering from traumatic brain injury (TBI).[93] They make the case that TBI rehabilitation practices rely on the betterment of the individual through engaging in everyday practices, a practice significantly related to tenets of positive psychology. Their proposal to connect positive psychology with TBI vocational rehabilitation (VR) also looks at happiness and its correlation with improvements in mental health, including increased confidence and productivity, as well as others. While the authors point out that empirical evidence for positive psychology is limited, they clarify that positive psychology's focus on small successes, optimism and prosocial behavior is promising for improvements in the social and emotional well-being of TBI patients.

Popular culture
The study of positive psychology has been translated into various popular media outlets, including books and films, and has been an influencing factor in the wellness industry.

Books
There have been several popular psychology books written by positive psychologists for a general audience.

Ilona Boniwell, in her book Positive Psychology in a Nutshell, provided a summary of the current research. According to Boniwell, well-being is related to optimism, extraversion, social connections (i.e., close friendships), being married, having engaging work, religion or spirituality, leisure, good sleep and exercise, social class (through lifestyle differences and better coping methods) and subjective health (what you think about your health).[94] Boniwell further writes that well-being is not related to age, physical attractiveness, money (once basic needs are met), gender (women are more often depressed but also more often joyful), educational level, having children (although they add meaning to life), moving to a sunnier climate, crime prevention, housing and objective health (what doctors say).

Sonja Lyubomirsky, in her book The How of Happiness, provides advice and guidance on how to improve happiness. According to The How of Happiness, individuals should create new habits, seek out new emotions, use variety and timing to prevent hedonic adaptation, and enlist others to motivate and support during the creation of those new habits.[95] Lyubomirsky gives 12 happiness activities, including savoring life, learning to forgive, and living in the present.

Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert is another popular book that shares positive psychology research findings for a general readership audience. Gilbert presents research suggesting that individuals are often poor at predicting what will make them happy in the future and that individuals are prone to misevaluating the causes of their happiness.[15] He also notes that the subjectivity of subjective well-being and happiness often is the most difficult challenge to overcome in predicting future happiness, noting that our future selves may have different subjective perspectives on life than our current selves.

Films
Coverage of positive psychology has entered the film industry. Similarly, films have provided the basis of new research within positive psychology.

Happy (2011 film) is a full-length documentary film covering overviewing the fields of positive psychology and neuroscience. It also highlights various case studies on happiness across diverse cultures and geographies. The film features interviews with notable positive psychologists and scholars, including Daniel Gilbert, Ed Diener, Sonja Lyubomirsky, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.[96]

The Positive Psychology News website includes a section on annual Positive Psychology Movie Awards.[97] The Positive Psychology Movie Awards ranks a short list of feature films of 2009, 2014, and annually between 2016-2018 that feature powerful messages of positive psychology. The rankings are according to the website's author, Ryan Niemiec, Psy.D, who is a psychologist, coach, and Education Director of the VIA Institute on Character. The Positive Psychology Movie Awards presents separate awards for categories including: Best Positive Psychology Film, Award for Positive Relationships, Award for Meaning, Award for Achievement, Award for Mindfulness, Award for Happiness, Signature Strengths Use, among others.

Further research done on positive psychology as represented in feature films has been done in association with the VIA Institute. Contemporary and popular films that promote or represent character strengths are the basis for various academic articles.[98]

Wellness industry
The growing popularity and attention given to positive psychology research has influenced industry growth, development, and consumption of products and services meant to cater to wellness and well-being.

According to the Global Wellness Institute, as of 2018, the global wellness economy is valued at $4.5 trillion and the wellness industry represents 5.3% of global economic output.[99] Key sectors of the wellness industry include workplace wellness, fitness and mind-body, personal care, and wellness lifestyle.

Highlighting happiness and well-being has been a strategy harnessed by various companies in their marketing strategies. Food and beverage companies such as Coca-Cola[100] and Pocky, whose motto is "Share happiness!",[101] emphasize happiness in their commercials, branding, and descriptions. CEOs at retail companies such as Zappos have profited by publishing books detailing their deliverance of happiness,[102] while Amazon's logo features a dimpled smile.[103]

Criticism
Positive psychology has received academic and general criticism over the years.

Reality distortion
In 1988, psychologists Shelley E. Taylor and Jonathan D. Brown co-authored a Psychological Bulletin article that coined the phrase positive illusions.[104] Positive illusions are the cognitive processes individuals engage in when self-aggrandizing or self-enhancing. They are the unrealistically positive or self-affirming attitudes that individuals hold of themselves, their position, or their environment. In essence, positive illusions are attitudes of extreme optimism that endure even in the face of facts and real conditions. Taylor and Brown suggested that positive illusions protect individuals from negative feedback that they might receive, and this, in turn, preserves their psychological adaptation and subjective well-being. However, later research has found that engaging in positive illusions and related attitudes has led to psychological maladaptive conditions, including poorer social relationships, expressions of narcissism, and negative workplace outcomes,[105] thus reducing the positive effects that positive illusions have on subjective well-being, overall happiness, and life satisfaction.

Kirk Schneider, editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, has said that positive psychology fails to explain past heinous behaviors such as those perpetrated by the Nazi party, Stalinist marches and Klan gatherings, to identify but a few. He also pointed to a body of research showing high positivity correlates with positive illusion, which effectively distorts reality. The extent of the downfall of high positivity or flourishing is one could become incapable of psychological growth, unable to self-reflect, and tend to hold racial biases. By contrast, negativity, sometimes evidenced in mild to moderate depression, is correlated with less distortion of reality. Therefore, Schneider argues, negativity might play an important role within the dynamics of human flourishing. To illustrate, conflict engagement and acknowledgement of appropriate negativity, including certain negative emotions like guilt, might better promote flourishing. Overall, Schneider provided perspective: "perhaps genuine happiness is not something you aim at, but is...a by-product of a life well lived – and a life well lived does not settle on the programmed or neatly calibrated."[106]

Narrow focus
In 2003, Ian Sample, writing for The Guardian, noted that, "Positive psychologists also stand accused of burying their heads in the sand and ignoring that depressed, even merely unhappy people, have real problems that need dealing with." He also quoted Steven Wolin, a clinical psychiatrist at George Washington University, as saying that the study of positive psychology is just a reiteration of older ways of thinking, and that there is not much scientific research to support the efficacy of this method. Gable responds to criticism on their Pollyanna view on the world by saying that they are just bringing a balance to a side of psychology that is glaringly understudied. To defend his point, Gable points to the imbalances favoring research into negative psychological well-being in cognitive psychology, health psychology, and social psychology.

Martin Jack has also maintained that positive psychology is not unique in its optimistic approach to looking at optimal emotional well-being, stating that other forms of psychology, such as counselling and educational psychology, are also interested in positive human fulfillment. He goes on to mention that, while positive psychology has pushed for schools to be more student-centered and able to foster positive self-images in children, he worries that a lack of focus on self-control may prevent children from making full contributions to society.

Role of negativity
Barbara S. Held, a professor at Bowdoin College, argued that while positive psychology makes contributions to the field of psychology, it has its faults. She offered insight into topics including the negative side effects of positive psychology, negativity within the positive psychology movement, and the current division in the field of psychology caused by differing opinions of psychologists on positive psychology. In addition, she noted the movement's lack of consistency regarding the role of negativity. She also raised issues with the simplistic approach taken by some psychologists in the application of positive psychology. A "one size fits all" approach is arguably not beneficial to the advancement of the field of positive psychology; she suggested a need for individual differences to be incorporated into its application.

Toxic positivity
A recent critical response to the field of positive psychology is that around toxic positivity. Toxic positivity is the concept or phenomenon in which individuals do not fully acknowledge, process, or manage the full spectrum of emotions, including negative emotional effect such as anger or sadness.[107] This genre of criticism against positive psychology argues that the field of positive psychology places too much importance on "upbeat thinking, while shunting challenging and difficult experiences to the side."[108] Individuals who engage in a constant chase for positive experiences or states of high subjective well-being may be inadvertently stigmatizing negative emotional conditions, such as depression, or may be suppressing natural emotional responses, such as sadness, regret, or stress. Furthermore, by not allowing negative emotional states to be experienced, or by suppressing and hiding negative emotional responses, individuals may experience harmful physical, cardiovascular, and respiratory outcomes.[109][110] Proponents of combating toxic positivity advocate for allowing oneself to accept and fully experience negative emotional states. Positive psychologist Tim Lomas has studied how experiencing sadness,[111] boredom,[112] and anger[113] enable individuals to gain perspective, understanding, and complexity on life and happiness, which in turns enhances their subjective well-being in the long term.

See also
Precursors
New Thought
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Needs and Motives (Henry Murray)
Self-determination theory
Various
Anatomy of an Epidemic
Aversion to happiness
Louise Burfitt-Dons
Community psychology
Culture and positive psychology
Happiness economics
Meaning of life
Positive education
Positive Neuroscience
Positive psychotherapy
Positive youth development
Posttraumatic growth
Pragmatism
Psychological resilience
Rational ignorance
Second wave positive psychology
Sex-positive movement
Theory of humor
Notes
Maslow wrote:
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side. It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illness, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his full psychological height. It is as if psychology has voluntarily restricted itself to only half its rightful jurisdiction, the darker, meaner half.[30]

See related concepts: Self-efficacy and play.
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Kahneman, Daniel; Diener, Ed; Schwarz, Norbert, eds. (2003). Well-Being: The Foundations of Hedonic Psychology. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Publications. ISBN 978-0-87154-424-7.
Keyes, Corey L. M.; Haidt, Jonathan, eds. (2003). Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well-lived. Washington: American Psychological Association. pp. 275–289. ISBN 978-1-55798-930-7.
Kashdan, Todd (2009). Curious? Discover the Missing Ingredient to a Fulfilling Life. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-166118-1.
McMahon, Darrin M. (2006). Happiness: A History. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 978-0-87113-886-6.
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Positive psychology is the study of "positive subjective experience, positive individual traits, and positive institutions ... it promises to improve quality of life."[citation needed] Positive psychology focuses on both individual and societal well-being.[1] It is a field of study that has been growing steadily throughout the years as individuals and researchers look for common ground on better well-being.[2]

Positive psychology began as a new domain of psychology in 1998 when Martin Seligman chose it as the theme for his term as president of the American Psychological Association.[3][4][5] It is a reaction against past practices, which have tended to focus on mental illness and emphasized maladaptive behavior and negative thinking. It builds on the humanistic movement by Abraham Maslow, Rollo May, James Bugental and Carl Rogers, which encouraged an emphasis on happiness, well-being, and positivity, thus creating the foundation for what is now known as positive psychology.[5]

Positive psychology is concerned with eudaimonia, an Ancient Greek term for "the good life" and the concept for reflection on the factors that contribute the most to a well-lived and fulfilling life. Positive psychologists often use the terms subjective well-being and happiness interchangeably.[6]

Positive psychologists have suggested a number of factors may contribute to happiness and subjective well-being. Those suggested ways include social ties with a spouse, family, friends, colleagues, and wider networks; membership in clubs or social organizations; physical exercise and the practice of meditation. Spirituality can also be considered a factor that lead to increased individual happiness and well-being. With spiritual practice and religious commitment being a topic researchers have been studying as another possible source for increased well-being and an added part of positive psychology.[7] Happiness may rise with increasing financial income, though it may plateau or even fall when no further gains are made or after a certain cut-off amount.[8]


Contents
1 Definition and basic assumptions
1.1 Definition
1.2 Basic concepts
1.3 Research topics
2 History
2.1 Origin
2.2 Development
2.3 Influences
3 Core theory and methods
3.1 Initial theory: three paths to happiness
3.2 PERMA
3.3 VIA Institute on Character
3.4 Character Strengths and Virtues
3.5 Flow
4 Research advances and applications
4.1 Research findings
4.2 Academic methods
4.3 National indices of happiness
5 Influences on other academic fields
5.1 Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS)
5.2 Psychiatry
6 Popular culture
6.1 Books
6.2 Films
6.3 Wellness industry
7 Criticism
7.1 Reality distortion
7.2 Narrow focus
7.3 Role of negativity
7.4 Toxic positivity
8 See also
9 Notes
10 References
10.1 Footnotes
10.2 Bibliography
11 Further reading
12 External links
Definition and basic assumptions
Definition
Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi define positive psychology as "the scientific study of positive human functioning and flourishing on multiple levels that include the biological, personal, relational, institutional, cultural, and global dimensions of life."[9]

Basic concepts
Positive psychology is concerned with eudaimonia, "the good life" or flourishing, living according to what holds the greatest value in life and other such factors that contribute the most to a well-lived and fulfilling life. While not attempting a strict definition of the good life, positive psychologists agree that one must live a happy, engaged, and meaningful life in order to experience "the good life.” Martin Seligman referred to "the good life" as "using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification."[10]

Positive psychology complements, without intending to replace or ignore, the traditional areas of psychology. By emphasizing the study of positive human development, this field helps to balance other approaches that focus on disorder, and which may produce only limited understanding.[11] Positive psychology has also placed a significant emphasis on fostering positive self-esteem and self-image, though positive psychologists with a less humanist direction are less likely to focus as intently on such topics.[12]

The basic premise of positive psychology is that human beings are often drawn by the future more than they are driven by the past. A change in our orientation to time can dramatically affect how we think about the nature of happiness. Another aspect of this may come from our views outside of our own lives. As author of Grit Angela Duckworth might view this as having an other-centered purpose, of which could have a positive psychological affect on our lives.[13] Seligman identified other possible goals: families and schools that allow children to grow, workplaces that aim for satisfaction and high productivity, and teaching others about positive psychology.[14] Psychologist Daniel Gilbert has also written extensively on the affects of time perception and happiness.[15]

Those who practice positive psychology attempt psychological interventions that foster positive attitudes toward one's subjective experiences, individual traits, and life events.[16] The goal is to minimize pathological thoughts that may arise in a hopeless mindset and to develop a sense of optimism toward life.[16] Positive psychologists seek to encourage acceptance of one's past, excitement and optimism about one's future experiences, and a sense of contentment and well-being in the present.[17]

Related concepts are happiness, well-being, quality of life, contentment,[18] and meaningful life.

- Happiness: Has been sought after and discussed throughout time. Research has concluded that happiness can be thought of in the way we act or what we do and how we think in relative terms to it.[19]

- Well-Being: Has often been referred to what is inherently good for an individual both physically and mentally, though other aspects could be added in to define well-being.[20]

- Quality of life: Quality of life encompasses more than just physical and mental well-being, it involves socioeconomic factors. It is also perceived differently in different cultures and regions around the world, but can come down to how well you are living and functioning in life.[21]

Research topics
According to Seligman and Peterson, positive psychology addresses three issues: positive emotions, positive individual traits, and positive institutions. Positive emotions are concerned with being content with one's past, being happy in the present and having hope for the future. Positive individual traits focus on one's strengths and virtues. Finally, positive institutions are based on strengths to better a community of people.[14]

According to Peterson, positive psychologists are concerned with four topics: positive experiences, enduring psychological traits, positive relationships, and positive institutions.[11] He also states that topics of interest to topics of interest to researchers in the field are states of pleasure or flow, values, strengths, virtues, talents, as well as the ways that these can be promoted by social systems and institutions.[22]

History

To Martin Seligman, psychology (particularly its positive branch) can investigate and promote realistic ways of fostering more well-being in individuals and communities.
Origin
While the formal discipline of positive psychology has only existed since 2000,[1] the concepts that form the basis of it have been present in religious and philosophical discourse for thousands of years.[23] The field of psychology predating the use of the term "positive psychology" has seen researchers who focused primarily on topics that would now be included under the umbrella of positive psychology.[24]

The term positive psychology dates back at least to 1954, when Maslow's first edition of Motivation and Personality was published with a final chapter titled "Toward a Positive Psychology."[25] In the second edition published in 1970, he removed that chapter, saying in the preface that "a positive psychology is at least available today though not very widely."[25] There have been indications that psychologists since the 1950s have been increasingly focused on the promotion of mental health rather than merely treating mental illness.[26][27] From the beginning of psychology, the field has addressed the human experience using the "Disease Model," specifically studying and identifying the dysfunction of an individual.

Positive psychology grew as an important field of study within psychology in 1998 when Martin Seligman chose it as the theme for his term as president of the American Psychological Association.[3][28] In the first sentence of his book Authentic Happiness, Seligman claimed: "for the last half century psychology has been consumed with a single topic only – mental illness,"[29] expanding on Maslow's comments.[a] He urged psychologists to continue the earlier missions of psychology of nurturing talent and improving normal life.[31]

Development
The first positive psychology summit took place in 1999. The First International Conference on Positive Psychology took place in 2002.[31] More attention was given by the general public in 2006 when, using the same framework, a course at Harvard University became particularly popular.[32] In June 2009, the First World Congress on Positive Psychology took place at the University of Pennsylvania.[33]

The International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) is a recently established association that has expanded to thousands of members from 80 different countries. The IPPA's missions include: (1) "further the science of positive psychology across the globe and to ensure that the field continues to rest on this science" (2) "work for the effective and responsible application of positive psychology in diverse areas such as organizational psychology, counselling and clinical psychology, business, health, education, and coaching," (3) "foster education and training in the field."[34]

The field of positive psychology today is most advanced in the United States and Western Europe. Even though positive psychology offers a new approach to the study of positive emotions and behavior, the ideas, theories, research, and motivation to study the positive side of human behavior is as old as humanity.[35]

Influences
Several humanistic psychologists, most notably Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, and Erich Fromm, developed theories and practices pertaining to human happiness and flourishing. More recently, positive psychologists have found empirical support for the humanistic theories of flourishing. In addition, positive psychology has moved ahead in a variety of new directions.

In 1984, Diener published his tripartite model of subjective well-being, positing "three distinct but often related components of wellbeing: frequent positive affect, infrequent negative affect, and cognitive evaluations such as life satisfaction."[36] In this model, cognitive, affective and contextual factors contribute to subjective well-being.[37] According to Diener and Suh, subjective well-being is "based on the idea that how each person thinks and feels about his or her life is important."[38]

Carol Ryff's Six-factor Model of Psychological Well-being was initially published in 1989, and additional testing of its factors was published in 1995. It postulates six factors which are key for well-being, namely self-acceptance, personal growth, purpose in life, environmental mastery, autonomy, and positive relations with others.[39]

According to Corey Keyes, who collaborated with Carol Ryff and uses the term flourishing as a central concept, mental well-being has three components, namely hedonic (c.q. subjective or emotional[40]), psychological, and social well-being.[41] Hedonic well-being concerns emotional aspects of well-being, whereas psychological and social well-being, c.q. eudaimonic well-being, concerns skills, abilities, and optimal functioning.[42] This tripartite model of mental well-being has received extensive empirical support across cultures.[42][40][43][44]

Influences in Ancient History
While the formal title "positive psychology" has only been around for the past two decades,[1] the concepts that form the basis of this field have been present in religious and philosophical discourse for thousands of years. The field of psychology predating the use of the term positive psychology has seen researchers who focused primarily on topics that would now be included under the umbrella of positive psychology.[24] Some view positive psychology as a meeting of Eastern thought, such as Buddhism, and Western psychodynamic approaches.[45] The historical roots of positive psychology are found in the teachings of Aristotle, whose Nicomachean Ethics teach the cultivation of moral virtue as the means of attaining happiness and well-being, which he referred to as eudaimonia.

Core theory and methods
Main article: Well-being
There is no accepted "gold standard" theory in positive psychology, however, the work of Seligman is regularly quoted.[46] So too the work of Csikszentmihalyi and older models of well-being, such as Carol Ryff's Six-factor Model of Psychological Well-being and Diener's tripartite model of subjective well-being.

Initial theory: three paths to happiness
In Authentic Happiness (2002) Seligman proposed three kinds of a happy life which can be investigated:[47][46]

Pleasant life: research into the Pleasant Life, or the "life of enjoyment," examines how people optimally experience, forecast , and savor the positive feelings and emotions that are part of normal and healthy living (e.g., relationships, hobbies, interests, entertainment, etc.). Despite the attention given, Martin Seligman says this most transient element of happiness may be the least important.[48]
Good Life: investigation of the beneficial effects of immersion, absorption, and flow , felt by individuals when optimally engaged with their primary activities, is the study of the Good Life, or the "life of engagement." Flow is experienced when there is a positive match between a person's strength and their current task, i.e., when one feels confident of accomplishing a chosen or assigned task.
Meaningful Life: inquiry into the Meaningful Life , or "life of affiliation," questions how individuals derive a positive sense of well-being, belonging, meaning, and purpose from being part of and contributing back to something larger and more permanent than themselves (e.g., nature, social groups, organizations, movements, traditions, belief systems).
PERMA
In Flourish (2011) Seligman argued that the last category of his proposed three kinds of a happy life, "meaningful life," can be considered as 3 different categories. The resulting summary for this theory is Seligman's PERMA acronym: Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning and purpose, and Accomplishments.[49] It is a mnemonic for the five elements of Martin Seligman's well-being theory:[46][50]

Positive emotions include a wide range of feelings, not just happiness and joy.[51] Included are emotions like excitement, satisfaction, pride and awe, amongst others. These emotions are frequently seen as connected to positive outcomes, such as longer life and healthier social relationships.[52]
Engagement refers to involvement in activities that draws and builds upon one's interests. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi explains true engagement as flow, a state of deep effortless involvement,[49] feeling of intensity that leads to a sense of ecstasy and clarity.[53] The task being done needs to call upon higher skill and be a bit difficult and challenging yet still possible. Engagement involves passion for and concentration on the task at hand and is assessed subjectively as to whether the person engaged was completely absorbed, losing self-consciousness.[51]
Relationships are essential in fueling positive emotions,[54] whether they are work-related, familial, romantic, or platonic. As Christopher Peterson puts it simply, "other people matter."[55] Humans receive, share, and spread positivity to others through relationships. They are important not only in bad times, but good times as well. In fact, relationships can be strengthened by reacting to one another positively. It is typical that most positive things take place in the presence of other people.[56]
Meaning is also known as purpose, and prompts the question of "why." Discovering and figuring out a clear "why" puts everything into context from work to relationships to other parts of life.[57] Finding meaning is learning that there is something greater than one's self. Despite potential challenges, working with meaning drives people to continue striving for a desirable goal.
Accomplishments are the pursuit of success and mastery.[51] Unlike the other parts of PERMA, they are sometimes pursued even when accomplishments do not result in positive emotions, meaning, or relationships. That being noted, accomplishments can activate the other elements of PERMA, such as pride, under positive emotion.[58] Accomplishments can be individual or community-based, fun- or work-based.
Each of the five PERMA elements was selected according to three criteria:

It contributes to well-being.
It is pursued for its own sake.
It is defined and measured independently of the other elements.
VIA Institute on Character
The VIA Institute on Character, founded in 1999 by Neal Mayerson and Martin Seligman,[59] was one of the first institutes created to study character strengths within positive psychology. The VIA Institute on Character, which is based in Cincinnati, OH, is a non-profit organization that provides survey measurement of character strengths. The "VIA" in the institute's name is a historical acronym for "Values in Action," although the current official name has dropped the full phrase and is shortened to VIA (pronounced "vee-uh") Institute.[60]

The organization produces a Values in Action Inventory of Strengths, more simply referred to as the "VIA Survey." The VIA Survey helps to identify and understand survey takers' character strengths. There are modified surveys for both adult individuals (VIA Survey) and youth populations (VIA Youth Survey). The work and research conducted by the VIA Institute preceded and provided the foundation to the 2004 book written by Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman, Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification (CSV).[59]

Since 1999, the VIA Survey has had over 13 million survey takers, has been taken in 195 countries in the world, is available in 41 language translations, and has been included in 500 academic research studies to date.[60] It is a widespread survey methodology and tool that positive psychologists, researchers, managers, teachers, and other professionals use to assess survey takers' character strengths. Published research findings that leveraged the VIA surveys span topics from understanding "signature" strengths, the connection between well-being/happiness and character strengths, the tie between mindfulness and character strengths, and how character strengths affect positive relationships.[61] Academic journal publications that used VIA surveys have also provided research findings on how to apply character strengths in the workplace, at school, in parenting, and in film representation.[61]

Character Strengths and Virtues
Main article: Character Strengths and Virtues
See also: Character education, Values education, and Values in Action Inventory of Strengths
The development of the Character Strengths and Virtues (CSV) handbook (2004) represented the first attempt by Seligman and Peterson to identify and classify positive psychological traits of human beings. Much like the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of general psychology, the CSV provided a theoretical framework to assist in understanding strengths and virtues and for developing practical applications for positive psychology. This manual identified 6 classes of virtues (i.e., "core virtues"), underlying 24 measurable character strengths.[62]

The CSV suggested these 6 virtues have a historical basis in the vast majority of cultures; in addition, these virtues and strengths can lead to increased happiness when built upon. Notwithstanding numerous cautions and caveats, this suggestion of universality hints threefold: 1) The study of positive human qualities broadens the scope of psychological research to include mental wellness, 2) the leaders of the positive psychology movement are challenging moral relativism, suggesting people are "evolutionarily predisposed" toward certain virtues, and 3) virtue has a biological basis.[63]

The organization of the 6 virtues and 24 strengths is as follows:

Wisdom and knowledge: creativity, curiosity, open-mindedness, love of learning, perspective, innovation
Courage: bravery, persistence, integrity, vitality, zest
Humanity: love, kindness, social intelligence
Justice: citizenship, fairness, leadership
Temperance: forgiveness and mercy, humility, prudence, self control
Transcendence: appreciation of beauty and excellence, gratitude, hope, humor, spirituality
Recent research challenged the need for 6 virtues. Instead, researchers suggested the 24 strengths are more accurately grouped into just 3 or 4 categories: Intellectual Strengths, Interpersonal Strengths, and Temperance Strengths,[64] or alternatively, Interpersonal Strengths, Fortitude, Vitality, and Cautiousness[65] . These strengths, and their classifications, have emerged independently elsewhere in literature on values. Paul Thagard described examples, which included Jeff Shrager's workshops to discover the habits of highly creative people.[66] Some research indicates that well-being effects that appear to be due to spirituality are actually better described as due to virtue.[67]

Flow
Main article: Flow (psychology)
See also: Peak experience
In the 1970s, Csikszentmihalyi began studying flow, a state of absorption where one's abilities are well-matched to the demands at-hand. Flow is characterized by intense concentration, loss of self-awareness, a feeling of being perfectly challenged (neither bored nor overwhelmed), and a sense that "time is flying." Flow is intrinsically rewarding; it can also assist in the achievement of goals (e.g., winning a game) or improving skills (e.g., becoming a better chess player).[68] Anyone can experience flow and it can be felt in different domains, such as play, creativity, and work. Flow is achieved when the challenge of the situation meets one's personal abilities. A mismatch of challenge for someone of low skills results in a state of anxiety; insufficient challenge for someone highly skilled results in boredom.[68]

Research advances and applications
Main article: Well-being contributing factors
Topical and methodological development has expanded the field of positive psychology. These advances have enabled the field of positive psychology to grow beyond its core theories and methods. Positive psychology is now a global area of study, with various national indices tracking citizens' happiness ratings.

Research findings
Research in positive psychology, well-being, eudaimonia and happiness, and the theories of Diener, Ryff, Keyes and Seligman cover a broad range of topics including "the biological, personal, relational, institutional, cultural, and global dimensions of life." A meta-analysis on 49 studies in 2009 showed that Positive Psychology Interventions (PPI) produced improvements in well-being and lower depression levels, the PPIs studied included writing gratitude letters, learning optimistic thinking, replaying positive life experiences and socializing with others. In a later meta-analysis of 39 studies with 6,139 participants in 2012, the outcomes were positive. Three to six months after a PPI the effects for subjective well-being and psychological well-being were still significant. However the positive effect was weaker than in the 2009 meta analysis, the authors concluded that this was because they only used higher quality studies. The PPIs they considered included counting blessings, kindness practices, making personal goals, showing gratitude and focusing on personal strengths. Another review of PPIs published in 2018 found that over 78% of intervention studies were conducted in Western countries.

In the textbook Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness, authors Compton and Hoffman give the "Top Down Predictors" of well-being as high self esteem, optimism, self efficacy, a sense of meaning in life and positive relationships with others. The personality traits most associated with well being are extraversion, agreeability and low levels of neuroticism.

Academic methods
Quantitative
One of the first major textbooks published on the topic of positive psychology is Oxford University Press's 2002 Handbook of Positive Psychology. In 2007, a second volume followed, entitled Oxford Handbook of Methods in Positive Psychology and edited by Anthony D. Ong and Manfred H.M. van Dulmen. The Oxford Handbook of Methods in Positive Psychology provides a broad overview of primarily quantitative methodological approaches to studying positive psychology. It provides coverage of updated methods for conducting robust and sophisticated quantitative research on positive psychology. Such methods include p-technique factor analysis, dynamic factor analysis, interindividual differences and structural equation modeling, spectral analysis and item response models, dynamic systems analysis, latent growth analysis, latent-class models, hierarchical linear modeling, measurement invariance, experimental methods, behavior genetics, and integration of quantitative and qualitative approaches.[69]

Qualitative
In a 2012 Journal of Positive Psychology article published by Grant J. Rich, the usage of qualitative methodology to study positive psychology is explored and considered.[70] Author Rich addresses the popularity of quantitative methods in studying the empirical questions that positive psychology presents. He argues that there is an "overemphasis" on quantitative methods and suggests implementing qualitative methods, such as semi-structured interviews, observations, fieldwork, creative artwork, and focus groups. Rich states that qualitative approaches are valuable approaches to studying positive psychology. He writes that usage of qualitative methods will further promote the "flourishing of positive psychology" and encourages such practice.[70]

Behavioral interventions
Changing happiness levels through interventions is a further methodological advancement in the study of positive psychology. Enhancing happiness through behavioral interventions has been the focus of various academic and scientific psychological publications. Happiness-enhancing interventions include expressing kindness, gratitude, optimism, humility, awe, and mindfulness.

In 2005, Sonja Lyubomirsky, Kennon M. Sheldon, and David Schkade co-authored an academic paper published in the journal Review of General Psychology.[71] In their research, they created a behavioral experiment using two 6-week interventions. One intervention studied was the performance of acts of kindness. The other was focused on gratitude and emphasized the counting of one's blessings. The study participants who went through the behavioral interventions reported higher levels of happiness and well-being than those who did not participate in either intervention. The paper provides experimental support for the effect of gratitude and kindness on enhancing subjective well-being and happiness.

Further research conducted by Sonja Lyubomirsky, Rene Dickerhoof, Julia K. Boehm, and Kennon M. Sheldon, published in 2011 in the academic journal Emotion, found that the interventions of expressing optimism and expressing gratitude enhanced subjective well-being in participants who took part in the intervention for 8 months.[72] The researchers concluded that interventions are "most successful when participants know about, endorse, and commit to the intervention."[72] The article provides support that when individuals enthusiastically take part in behavioral interventions, such as expression of optimism and gratitude, they may be engaging in an approach to increase happiness and subjective well-being.

In 2014, Elliott Kruse, Joseph Chancellor, Peter M. Ruberton, and Sonja Lyubomirsky published an academic article in the journal Social Psychology and Personality Science.[73] In their research, they study the interaction effects between gratitude and humility through behavior interventions. The interventions they studied were writing a gratitude letter and writing a 14-day diary. In both interventions, Kruse et al. found that gratitude and humility are connected and are "mutually reinforcing."[73] The article also discusses how gratitude, and its associated humility, may lead to more positive emotional states and subjective well-being.

Researchers Melanie Rudd, Kathleen D. Vohs, and Jennifer Aaker conducted a series of experiments that showed a positive effect of awe on subjective well-being, publishing their results in 2012 in the academic journal Psychological Science.[74] Their research found that individuals who felt awe also reported feeling higher availability of time, more preference for experiential expenditures than material expenditures, and greater life satisfaction. Experiences that heighten awe may lead to higher levels of life satisfaction and, in turn, higher levels of happiness and subjective well-being.

Mindfulness interventions may also increase happiness. In a Mindfulness article published in 2011 by Torbjörn Josefsson, Pernilla Larsman, Anders G. Broberg, and Lars-Gunnar Lundh, it was found that meditation improves subjective well-being for individuals who mindfully meditate.[75] The researchers note that being mindful in meditation includes awareness and observation of one's meditation practice, with non-reaction and non-judgmental sentiments during meditation.

National indices of happiness
The creation of various national indices of happiness have broadened and expanded the field of positive psychology to a global scale.

In a January 2000 academic article published in American Psychologist, psychologist Ed Diener proposed and argued for the creation of a national happiness index in the United States.[76] Such an index would provide measurements of happiness, or subjective well-being, within the United States and across many other countries in the world. Diener argued that national indices would be helpful markers or indicators of population happiness, providing a sense of current ratings and a tracker of happiness across time. Diener proposed that the national index include various sub-measurements of subjective well-being, including "pleasant affect, unpleasant affect, life satisfaction, fulfillment, and more specific states such as stress, affection, trust, and joy."[76]

In 2012, the first World Happiness Report was published. The World Happiness Report was initiated by the UN General Assembly in June 2011, which passed the Bhutanese Resolution.[77] The Bhutanese Resolution called for nations across the world to "give more importance to happiness and well-being in determining how to achieve and measure social and economic development."[77] The data for the World Happiness Reports is collected in partnership with the Gallup World Poll's life evaluations and annual happiness rankings. The World Happiness Report bases its national rankings on how happy constituents self-report and believe themselves to be.

The first World Happiness Report, published in 2012, is a 170-page report that details the state of world happiness, the causes of happiness and misery, policy implications from happiness reports, and three case studies of subjective well-being for 1) Bhutan and its Gross National Happiness index, 2) the U.K. Office for National Statistics Experience, and 3) happiness in the member countries within the OECD.[78] The World Happiness Report published in 2020 is the 8th publication in the series of reports. It is the first World Happiness Report to include happiness rankings of cities across the world, in addition to rankings of 156 countries. The city of Helsinki, Finland was reported as the city with the highest subjective well-being ranking,[79] and the country of Finland was reported as the country with the highest subjective well-being ranking for the third year in a row.[80] The 2020 report provides insights on happiness based on environmental conditions, social conditions, urban-rural happiness differentials, and sustainable development.[81] It also provides overview and possible explanations for why Nordic countries have consistently ranked in the top ten happiest countries in the World Happiness Report since 2013.[82] Possible explanations include Nordic countries' high-quality government benefits and protections to its citizens, including welfare benefits and well-operated democratic institutions, as well as social connections, bonding, and trust.[82]

Additional national well-being indices and reported statistics include the Gallup Global Emotions Report,[83] Gallup Sharecare Well-Being Index,[84] Global Happiness Council's Global Happiness and Well-being Policy Report,[85] Happy Planet Index,[86] Indigo Wellness Index,[87] OECD Better Life Index,[88] and UN Human Development Reports.[89]

Influences on other academic fields
Positive psychology has influenced a variety of other academic fields of study and scholarship. It has been applied to various other areas of scholarship, most notably Organizational Behavior and Psychiatry.

Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS)
Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS), also referred to as Positive Organizational Behavior (POB), began as a direct application of positive psychology to the field of organizational behavior. One of the first times the term was officially defined and published was in 2003, in the text Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline edited by University of Michigan Ross School of Business professors Kim S. Cameron, Jane E. Dutton, and Robert E. Quinn.[90] In the first chapter of the text, Cameron, Dutton, and Quinn promote "the best of the human condition," such as goodness, compassion, resilience, and positive human potential, as an organizational goal as important as financial organizational success.[90] The goal of POS is to study the factors that create positive work experiences and successful, people-oriented organizational outcomes.

A large collection of POS research is contained in the 2011 volume The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship, edited by University of Michigan Ross School of Business Professors Kim S. Cameron and Gretchen M. Spreitzer.[91] This 1076-page volume encompasses nine sections and 79 chapters spanning various topics. Major topics include positive human resource practices, positive organizational practices, and positive leadership and change. Much of the volume expands upon and applies core concepts of positive psychology to the workplace context, covering areas such as positive individual attributes, positive emotions, strengths and virtues, and positive relationships. A further definition of POS, as written by editors Cameron and Spreitzer:

Positive organizational scholarship rigorously seeks to understand what represents the best of the human condition based on scholarly research and theory. Just as positive psychology focuses on exploring optimal individual psychological states rather than pathological ones, organizational scholarship focuses attention on the generative dynamics in organizations that lead to the development of human strength, foster resiliency in employees, enable healing and restoration, and cultivate extraordinary individual and organizational performance. POS emphasizes what elevates individuals and organizations (in addition to what challenges them), what goes right in organizations (in addition to what goes wrong), what is life-giving (in addition to what is problematic or life-depleting), what is experienced as good (in addition to what is objectionable), and what is inspiring (in addition to what is difficult or arduous).

— Kim S. Cameron and Gretchen M. Spreitzer, "Chapter 1. Introduction: What is Positive about Positive Organizational Scholarship?" The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship (2011)[91]
Psychiatry
Positive psychology has influenced psychiatry by providing additional therapeutic and cognitive behavior shifts, including well-being therapy, positive psychotherapy, and practicing an integration of positive psychology in therapeutic practice.[92]

In an 2015 academic article published in Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, Mills and Kreutzer argue for the principles of positive psychology to be implemented to assist those recovering from traumatic brain injury (TBI).[93] They make the case that TBI rehabilitation practices rely on the betterment of the individual through engaging in everyday practices, a practice significantly related to tenets of positive psychology. Their proposal to connect positive psychology with TBI vocational rehabilitation (VR) also looks at happiness and its correlation with improvements in mental health, including increased confidence and productivity, as well as others. While the authors point out that empirical evidence for positive psychology is limited, they clarify that positive psychology's focus on small successes, optimism and prosocial behavior is promising for improvements in the social and emotional well-being of TBI patients.

Popular culture
The study of positive psychology has been translated into various popular media outlets, including books and films, and has been an influencing factor in the wellness industry.

Books
There have been several popular psychology books written by positive psychologists for a general audience.

Ilona Boniwell, in her book Positive Psychology in a Nutshell, provided a summary of the current research. According to Boniwell, well-being is related to optimism, extraversion, social connections (i.e., close friendships), being married, having engaging work, religion or spirituality, leisure, good sleep and exercise, social class (through lifestyle differences and better coping methods) and subjective health (what you think about your health).[94] Boniwell further writes that well-being is not related to age, physical attractiveness, money (once basic needs are met), gender (women are more often depressed but also more often joyful), educational level, having children (although they add meaning to life), moving to a sunnier climate, crime prevention, housing and objective health (what doctors say).

Sonja Lyubomirsky, in her book The How of Happiness, provides advice and guidance on how to improve happiness. According to The How of Happiness, individuals should create new habits, seek out new emotions, use variety and timing to prevent hedonic adaptation, and enlist others to motivate and support during the creation of those new habits.[95] Lyubomirsky gives 12 happiness activities, including savoring life, learning to forgive, and living in the present.

Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert is another popular book that shares positive psychology research findings for a general readership audience. Gilbert presents research suggesting that individuals are often poor at predicting what will make them happy in the future and that individuals are prone to misevaluating the causes of their happiness.[15] He also notes that the subjectivity of subjective well-being and happiness often is the most difficult challenge to overcome in predicting future happiness, noting that our future selves may have different subjective perspectives on life than our current selves.

Films
Coverage of positive psychology has entered the film industry. Similarly, films have provided the basis of new research within positive psychology.

Happy (2011 film) is a full-length documentary film covering overviewing the fields of positive psychology and neuroscience. It also highlights various case studies on happiness across diverse cultures and geographies. The film features interviews with notable positive psychologists and scholars, including Daniel Gilbert, Ed Diener, Sonja Lyubomirsky, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.[96]

The Positive Psychology News website includes a section on annual Positive Psychology Movie Awards.[97] The Positive Psychology Movie Awards ranks a short list of feature films of 2009, 2014, and annually between 2016-2018 that feature powerful messages of positive psychology. The rankings are according to the website's author, Ryan Niemiec, Psy.D, who is a psychologist, coach, and Education Director of the VIA Institute on Character. The Positive Psychology Movie Awards presents separate awards for categories including: Best Positive Psychology Film, Award for Positive Relationships, Award for Meaning, Award for Achievement, Award for Mindfulness, Award for Happiness, Signature Strengths Use, among others.

Further research done on positive psychology as represented in feature films has been done in association with the VIA Institute. Contemporary and popular films that promote or represent character strengths are the basis for various academic articles.[98]

Wellness industry
The growing popularity and attention given to positive psychology research has influenced industry growth, development, and consumption of products and services meant to cater to wellness and well-being.

According to the Global Wellness Institute, as of 2018, the global wellness economy is valued at $4.5 trillion and the wellness industry represents 5.3% of global economic output.[99] Key sectors of the wellness industry include workplace wellness, fitness and mind-body, personal care, and wellness lifestyle.

Highlighting happiness and well-being has been a strategy harnessed by various companies in their marketing strategies. Food and beverage companies such as Coca-Cola[100] and Pocky, whose motto is "Share happiness!",[101] emphasize happiness in their commercials, branding, and descriptions. CEOs at retail companies such as Zappos have profited by publishing books detailing their deliverance of happiness,[102] while Amazon's logo features a dimpled smile.[103]

Criticism
Positive psychology has received academic and general criticism over the years.

Reality distortion
In 1988, psychologists Shelley E. Taylor and Jonathan D. Brown co-authored a Psychological Bulletin article that coined the phrase positive illusions.[104] Positive illusions are the cognitive processes individuals engage in when self-aggrandizing or self-enhancing. They are the unrealistically positive or self-affirming attitudes that individuals hold of themselves, their position, or their environment. In essence, positive illusions are attitudes of extreme optimism that endure even in the face of facts and real conditions. Taylor and Brown suggested that positive illusions protect individuals from negative feedback that they might receive, and this, in turn, preserves their psychological adaptation and subjective well-being. However, later research has found that engaging in positive illusions and related attitudes has led to psychological maladaptive conditions, including poorer social relationships, expressions of narcissism, and negative workplace outcomes,[105] thus reducing the positive effects that positive illusions have on subjective well-being, overall happiness, and life satisfaction.

Kirk Schneider, editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, has said that positive psychology fails to explain past heinous behaviors such as those perpetrated by the Nazi party, Stalinist marches and Klan gatherings, to identify but a few. He also pointed to a body of research showing high positivity correlates with positive illusion, which effectively distorts reality. The extent of the downfall of high positivity or flourishing is one could become incapable of psychological growth, unable to self-reflect, and tend to hold racial biases. By contrast, negativity, sometimes evidenced in mild to moderate depression, is correlated with less distortion of reality. Therefore, Schneider argues, negativity might play an important role within the dynamics of human flourishing. To illustrate, conflict engagement and acknowledgement of appropriate negativity, including certain negative emotions like guilt, might better promote flourishing. Overall, Schneider provided perspective: "perhaps genuine happiness is not something you aim at, but is...a by-product of a life well lived – and a life well lived does not settle on the programmed or neatly calibrated."[106]

Narrow focus
In 2003, Ian Sample, writing for The Guardian, noted that, "Positive psychologists also stand accused of burying their heads in the sand and ignoring that depressed, even merely unhappy people, have real problems that need dealing with." He also quoted Steven Wolin, a clinical psychiatrist at George Washington University, as saying that the study of positive psychology is just a reiteration of older ways of thinking, and that there is not much scientific research to support the efficacy of this method. Gable responds to criticism on their Pollyanna view on the world by saying that they are just bringing a balance to a side of psychology that is glaringly understudied. To defend his point, Gable points to the imbalances favoring research into negative psychological well-being in cognitive psychology, health psychology, and social psychology.

Martin Jack has also maintained that positive psychology is not unique in its optimistic approach to looking at optimal emotional well-being, stating that other forms of psychology, such as counselling and educational psychology, are also interested in positive human fulfillment. He goes on to mention that, while positive psychology has pushed for schools to be more student-centered and able to foster positive self-images in children, he worries that a lack of focus on self-control may prevent children from making full contributions to society.

Role of negativity
Barbara S. Held, a professor at Bowdoin College, argued that while positive psychology makes contributions to the field of psychology, it has its faults. She offered insight into topics including the negative side effects of positive psychology, negativity within the positive psychology movement, and the current division in the field of psychology caused by differing opinions of psychologists on positive psychology. In addition, she noted the movement's lack of consistency regarding the role of negativity. She also raised issues with the simplistic approach taken by some psychologists in the application of positive psychology. A "one size fits all" approach is arguably not beneficial to the advancement of the field of positive psychology; she suggested a need for individual differences to be incorporated into its application.

Toxic positivity
A recent critical response to the field of positive psychology is that around toxic positivity. Toxic positivity is the concept or phenomenon in which individuals do not fully acknowledge, process, or manage the full spectrum of emotions, including negative emotional effect such as anger or sadness.[107] This genre of criticism against positive psychology argues that the field of positive psychology places too much importance on "upbeat thinking, while shunting challenging and difficult experiences to the side."[108] Individuals who engage in a constant chase for positive experiences or states of high subjective well-being may be inadvertently stigmatizing negative emotional conditions, such as depression, or may be suppressing natural emotional responses, such as sadness, regret, or stress. Furthermore, by not allowing negative emotional states to be experienced, or by suppressing and hiding negative emotional responses, individuals may experience harmful physical, cardiovascular, and respiratory outcomes.[109][110] Proponents of combating toxic positivity advocate for allowing oneself to accept and fully experience negative emotional states. Positive psychologist Tim Lomas has studied how experiencing sadness,[111] boredom,[112] and anger[113] enable individuals to gain perspective, understanding, and complexity on life and happiness, which in turns enhances their subjective well-being in the long term.

See also
Precursors
New Thought
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Needs and Motives (Henry Murray)
Self-determination theory
Various
Anatomy of an Epidemic
Aversion to happiness
Louise Burfitt-Dons
Community psychology
Culture and positive psychology
Happiness economics
Meaning of life
Positive education
Positive Neuroscience
Positive psychotherapy
Positive youth development
Posttraumatic growth
Pragmatism
Psychological resilience
Rational ignorance
Second wave positive psychology
Sex-positive movement
Theory of humor
Notes
Maslow wrote:
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side. It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illness, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his full psychological height. It is as if psychology has voluntarily restricted itself to only half its rightful jurisdiction, the darker, meaner half.[30]

See related concepts: Self-efficacy and play.
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Kashdan, Todd (2009). Curious? Discover the Missing Ingredient to a Fulfilling Life. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-166118-1.
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[Ashliana]

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It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

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[Parkbandit]

It's okay, Ashliana. Trump may have spectacularly made you butthurt for 4 years and even now after he's out of office -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Trump's 2016 victory when you didn't post for a long time because you were in bed crying-- but you "survived" then and you'll "survive" now. Just hang in there a little longer.


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[Ashliana]

Parkbandit: "Not posting on the PC during any given period means you had a meltdown! HURRR!"

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But It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Parkbandit]

Parkbandit: "Not posting on the PC during any given period means you had a meltdown! HURRR!"

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/940/357/2dd.jpg

But It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

It's okay, Ashliana. Trump may have spectacularly made you butthurt for 4 years and even now after he's out of office -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Trump's 2016 victory when you didn't post for a long time because you were in bed crying REAL FUCKING TEARS because you wanted a woman, whom you attempt to represent online, to be a President-- but you "survived" then and you'll "survive" now. Just hang in there a little longer.


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[Ashliana]

Parkbandit: "Not posting on the PC during any given period means you had a meltdown! HURRR!"

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/940/357/2dd.jpg

But It's okay, Parkbandit. Trump may have spectacularly lost the presidency and Congress -- causing you to lose your shit like your epic meltdown post-Obama's second victory -- but you survived then and you'll survive now. Just hang in there a little longer.

https://i.gifer.com/3aqY.gif

[Parkbandit]

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[Ashliana]

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[Methais]

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[Wrathbringer]

Aww. Did someone hurt your fee-fees just a tad too much? I know you've been upset since the Mango Mussolini's unceremonious exit from office, but you'll come to terms with it eventually.

So...PB makes an "lol@Ashliana's retardationality" thread for you, and you not only use and perpetuate it, but you're post #2.

Game, set, match: PB.

I'd point out that you're being trolled, but after 13 years I think PB is closing in on a World Record and I wouldn't want to ruin that, so...carry on, I guess?

[Ashliana]

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[Ashliana]

So...PB makes an "lol@Ashliana's retardationality" thread for you, and you not only use and perpetuate it, but you're post #2.

Game, set, match: PB.

I'd point out that you're being trolled, but after 13 years I think PB is closing in on a World Record and I wouldn't want to ruin that, so...carry on, I guess?

You're right! Parkbandit definitely hasn't demonstrated his long-running obsession with me by making and continuing to post in a thread about me 25 pages. :)

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[Parkbandit]

So...PB makes an "lol@Ashliana's retardationality" thread for you, and you not only use and perpetuate it, but you're post #2.

Game, set, match: PB.

I'd point out that you're being trolled, but after 13 years I think PB is closing in on a World Record and I wouldn't want to ruin that, so...carry on, I guess?

It's not even difficult to do at this point.

[Parkbandit]

You're right! Parkbandit definitely hasn't demonstrated his long-running obsession with me by making and continuing to post in a thread about me 25 pages. :)


"OMG PARKBANDIT IS GIVING ME ATTENTION! I WONDER IF HE LIKES ME!!!! I THINK HE'S OBSESSED WITH ME!"

Jesus....

[Wrathbringer]

You're right! Parkbandit definitely hasn't demonstrated his long-running obsession with me by making and continuing to post in a thread about me 25 pages. :)

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To make sure that I understand, your defense is, "bbbbbut he's posting about me!!1"?

[Ashliana]

"OMG PARKBANDIT IS GIVING ME ATTENTION! I WONDER IF HE LIKES ME!!!! I THINK HE'S OBSESSED WITH ME!"

Jesus....

The Repageddon thread, and this thread, speak for themselves and your mental illness. Remember when you claimed to be "normal" the other day? :rofl:


To make sure that I understand, your defense is, "bbbbbut he's posting about me!!1"?

"What gives you the idea that Parkbandit is obsessed with you? Could it be his decade-long spree of obsessively cycling through the reputation system to leave as many mentally ill, sexually graphic messages full of impotent rage as he could? Or the multiple threads dedicated to you he created, including this one?"

Very convincing.

[Wrathbringer]

The Repageddon thread, and this thread, speak for themselves and your mental illness. Remember when you claimed to be "normal" the other day? :rofl:



"What gives you the idea that Parkbandit is obsessed with you? Could it be his decade-long spree of obsessively cycling through the reputation system to leave as many mentally ill, sexually graphic messages full of impotent rage as he could? Or the multiple threads dedicated to you he created, including this one?"

Very convincing.

So that's a yes? You do know that you're not obligated to respond, right?

[Ashliana]

So that's a yes? You do know that you're not obligated to respond, right?

You can call it "being trolled and don't know it" all you like. In reality, this is an easy opportunity to demonstrate PB's ongoing obsession with me, and his general mental illness. Yes, I'm aware I'm not "obligated to respond." Thanks for the heads-up.

[Parkbandit]

You can call it "being trolled and don't know it" all you like. In reality, this is an easy opportunity to demonstrate PB's ongoing obsession with me, and his general mental illness. Yes, I'm aware I'm not "obligated to respond." Thanks for the heads-up.

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What I don't understand is someone in your... condition.. having some sort of narcissism..

Like even you should be self aware enough to know you got literally nothing going for yourself... how could anyone be "obsessed" with you?

I've stated multiple times: I'm just entertained online by really, really, really stupid people.

That's one of my weaknesses..

[Methais]

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What I don't understand is someone in your... condition.. having some sort of narcissism..

Like even you should be self aware enough to know you got literally nothing going for yourself... how could anyone be "obsessed" with you?

I've stated multiple times: I'm just entertained online by really, really, really stupid people.

That's one of my weaknesses..

This is correct.