Why all the focus on positive thinking vs negative thinking? Why not realistic thinking?
Realistic thinking is always the ideal, of course, but what happens when someone is in an uncontrollable situation? For instance, what happens when you lose all ability to understand the real world? When someone is depressed, for example, the real world is gone, life becomes a nightmare. In helping these people, positive thinking, no matter how off base, can help to lead them towards achieving normalcy in their lives. Positive thinking also helps in everyday events. In going into a test, it has been proven that positive thoughts can help increase your mood and ability to focus as compared to negative thoughts which can leave you in a bad mood with thoughts about what will happen if you fail.
