Poll Optimism

[siniang]

I've always been an innate optimist to the extreme. And then my GAD started ramping up over the years coupled with things just keeping to go wrong/bad things happening. Again and again and again.

So, this ... ?? .... fits.

No, but I don’t believe I’m a pessimist, I’m a cynic. Plan for/expect the worst and anything better is a bonus. Too many years of the worst thing happening for that to change.

I don't consider myself a pessimist (though outsiders might disagree). Expect the worst, hope for the best.

My default still is "everything will work out somehow" and then the anxiety kicks in going "Wait a second, what about...?". Creates a helluva lot internal conflict.

 

[Ronin]

Im so confused by the question asking Feel, lol.

In, feel? No. But approach, way of seeing issues as solvable, believing in getting through, believing in the better of people / willing to try many times over just for the endurance of it, things like that? Yea.

Or, when I believe less in good & worth trying, theres gloom & doom, fine, but surrendering can bite me. So still looking for the bright sides... just because they are not giving in.

 

[Teasel]

Generally have tended towards optimism though for sure there are some exceptions.

And of course, my trauma brain likes to insist that ‘optimism’ is simply ‘naivety’.

I often ponder on this too ;)