Signs You Are A Negative Nancy

Trouble Maintaining Healthy Relationships

Negative individuals may have trouble maintaining healthy relationships. When you constantly feel negative about yourself, your life, and those around you, it makes it difficult to have healthy relationships. In a healthy relationship, you and the other person have positive feelings about each other. You offer each other support and active listening. If you're critical of yourself, you may refuse to accept another person's positive feelings toward you, which leads to conflict in a relationship. You may also be unnecessarily critical of others without acknowledging their point of view, which causes fracturing in relationships. Constant negativity about your life circumstances has negative effects on those surrounding you.

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Not Excited About The Future

When you have a negative or pessimistic mindset, you may not be excited about the future. A lack of excitement for the future can be a sign of depression and other mental health issues as well. In a healthy mindset and healthy life circumstances, you'll be excited about what the future has to offer. You'll have plans to do things that make you happy, long-term goals you're excited to achieve, and people you're excited to spend time with. If you only see stress and bleakness in your future, you may need to change both your outlook and circumstances. Maybe you need to make more time for self-care or hobbies. Maybe you need to stop spending time around people who make you unhappy. Maybe you need to reevaluate your goals and long-term plans. You should live your life in a way that makes you happy to be alive.