Focusing on the positive, for me, isn't about complacency, or pretending the bad doesn't exist, or pretending everything is fine the way it is and we don't have to work hard for change. For me it's about minimizing the amount of my day I spend fighting suicidal ideation.

I will never understand the idea that despair and rage are necessary for change. "Unless you personally feel terrible, there will be no motive to help other people who are feeling terrible."

I am MOST active, most determined to make the world better, when I'm mentally healthy.

I know it isn't that way for everyone. But the constant bombardment of "If you aren't miserable, you're unethical" comes from a place of privilege, and it's exhausting. If you have the ability to do anything but spiral into self-harm when angry/sad, great, do that!

I understand frustration with complacency. But to diagnose complacency, we have to look at actions and not moods. It's what we DO that matters, not how we FEEL while we are doing it.

Related: a person's tweets very rarely reveal much about their daily life and habits.