Negative Thinking Speeds Up Brain Decline and Raises Dementia Risk by Debbie Hampton

How the hell do you accomplish this post stroke when your doctor knows nothing and does nothing to get you 100% recovered?

Negative Thinking Speeds Up Brain Decline and Raises Dementia Risk by Debbie Hampton

10 Common Negative Thinking Patterns and How You Can Change Them by Debbie Hampton

Since your doctor knows nothing and does nothing about 100% recovery it is your responsibility not to fall into these negative thoughts.  I'm happier than I ever was and it's all because of my stroke:

Mine is here:

Why my stroke was the best thing to ever happen to me

 

10 Common Negative Thinking Patterns and How You Can Change Them

Negative Thinking Speeds Up Brain Decline and Raises Dementia Risk from Debbie Hampton

 It is completely and totally your doctor's responsibility to prevent this negative thinking(rumination, anxiety, depression, worry). All this is easily addressed by your doctor HAVING EXACT STROKE REHAB PROTOCOLS LEADING TO 100% RECOVERY. 

YOUR DOCTOR'S RESPONSIBILITY!

Negative Thinking Speeds Up Brain Decline and Raises Dementia Risk from Debbie Hampton

Negative Thinking Speeds Up Brain Decline and Raises Dementia Risk by Debbie Hampton

You'll  have to stop negative thinking patterns, like rumination and worry.

Anxiety and depression are also culprits.  All these can be solved if your doctor has EXACT STROKE REHAB PROTOCOLS  leading to 100% recovery. This is all your doctor's responsibilty. Don't let her/him weasel out of that responsibility by quoting this craptastic saying:'All strokes are different, all stroke recoveries are different'. 

Although I guess you might be allowed to have negative thoughts against your doctor for not being prepared to get you 100% recovered.

Negative Thinking Speeds Up Brain Decline and Raises Dementia Risk by Debbie Hampton

Repetitive negative thinking may increase (or perhaps be caused by) cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s pathology

So obviously the point is to stop your negative thoughts about the complete failure of your doctor to get you 100% recovered.  I guess you need to forgive and forget.  Instead have positive thoughts about the 25% chance they will get to experience stroke and its aftermath.  Comeuppance will be a bitch.

 

Repetitive negative thinking may increase (or perhaps be caused by) cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s pathology

Dementia affects an estimated 54 million people worldwide. There no cure, but reports indicate that approximately a third of dementia cases may be preventable, which is why many researchers have begun to focus on identifying risk factors. This would allow for better personalised interventions that may be able to reduce risk, delay, or even prevent the onset of dementia.
Current research shows that genetics, high blood pressure, and smoking are all risk factors for developing dementia. But a lot of people don’t realise that there is also a relationship between mental ill-health and higher dementia risk too. Studies have shown that depression, anxiety, and post traumatic stress disorder are all linked to a higher risk of developing dementia in older age. Our recent study builds on this research by examining whether a style of thinking that is common to these mental health conditions is associated with indicators of Alzheimer’s disease, the most common type of dementia.
People experiencing mental ill health frequently engage in a style of thinking called “Repetitive Negative Thinking”. This style of thinking involves the tendency to have negative thoughts about the future (worry) or about the past (rumination), and these thoughts can feel uncontrollable.
In 2015, I developed a hypothesis called “Cognitive Debt” which proposed that repetitive negative thinking could be the “active ingredient” common in all these mental health conditions that may help explain the increased dementia risk we observe. Our recently published study tested this hypothesis for the first time. We found that repetitive negative thinking was indeed associated with indicators of Alzheimer’s disease.
Our study looked at 292 older adults aged 55+ from the PREVENT-AD project in Canada. Their cognitive function was assessed, measuring memory, attention, spatial cognition, and language. Of these participants, 113 also had their brain scanned, which allowed researchers to measure deposits of tau and amyloid. These two proteins are biological markers of Alzheimer’s disease when they build up in the brain. A further 68 people from the IMAP+ project in France underwent PET brain scans to measure amyloid.
We found that people who exhibited higher repetitive negative thinking patterns experienced more cognitive decline over a four-year period. They also had specific declines in memory (which is an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease), and had more amyloid and tau deposits in their brain.
We also examined symptoms of depression and anxiety. We found that both were associated with cognitive decline, but not with deposits of either amyloid or tau. It may be that these symptoms are more indicative of decline that happens with ageing or dementia that is not due to Alzheimer’s disease. Equally, participants in this study had very low levels of depression and anxiety which would make it unlikely to be able to detect a relationship. These findings do suggest that repetitive negative thinking could one reason why depression and anxiety are associated with Alzheimer’s disease risk – which is in line with my “Cognitive Debt” hypothesis.
However, it is important to point out that although the hypothesis proposes repetitive negative thinking increases risk for dementia (specifically Alzheimer’s), the opposite may also be true. People who experience a decline in their condition may become more concerned or worried about their health – leading to repetitive negative thinking. Or, amyloid or tau could have accumulated in the brain, disrupted its circuitry, making it more difficult to disengage from negative thoughts. At this point we are unable to know which came first.
But how could our thoughts be associated with a disease of the brain? On a biological level, negative thinking is associated with increased stress. In fact, repetitive negative thinking is seen as a behavioural marker of chronic stress by causing elevated blood pressure and higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol. There’s increasing evidence that chronic stress is both harmful to your body – and your brain. But more research is needed to understand this link.
Given that repetitive negative thinking is responsive to treatments such as cognitive behavioural therapy or mindfulness, future research will look at whether reducing these thinking patterns also reduces dementia risk. In the meantime, there is evidence to suggest that many lifestyle habits – such as maintaining a healthy diet, exercising, and staying socially active – are all linked with lower risk of dementia. Although we don’t know whether reducing repetitive negative thinking could delay dementia in the future, taking steps to look after your mental health is still important for your well-being in the present.
Dr Natalie Marchant is an Alzheimer’s Society Senior Research Fellow based at University College London. She is currently involved in several UK- and internationally-funded projects to investigate lifestyle factors that increase risk or resilience to neurodegeneration, cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease; and behavioural interventions that may modify these factors. Disclosure statement: Natalie L Marchant receives funding from the Alzheimer’s Society, European Commission, and the Medical Research Council. This article was originally published on The Conversation.

 Dementia affects an estimated 54 million people worldwide. There no cure, but reports indicate that approximately a third of dementia cases may be preventable, which is why many researchers have begun to focus on identifying risk factors. This would allow for better personalised interventions that may be able to reduce risk, delay, or even prevent the onset of dementia.

Current research shows that genetics, high blood pressure, and smoking are all risk factors for developing dementia. But a lot of people don’t realise that there is also a relationship between mental ill-health and higher dementia risk too. Studies have shown that depression, anxiety, and post traumatic stress disorder are all linked to a higher risk of developing dementia in older age. Our recent study builds on this research by examining whether a style of thinking that is common to these mental health conditions is associated with indicators of Alzheimer’s disease, the most common type of dementia.

People experiencing mental ill health frequently engage in a style of thinking called “Repetitive Negative Thinking”. This style of thinking involves the tendency to have negative thoughts about the future (worry) or about the past (rumination), and these thoughts can feel uncontrollable.

In 2015, I developed a hypothesis called “Cognitive Debt” which proposed that repetitive negative thinking could be the “active ingredient” common in all these mental health conditions that may help explain the increased dementia risk we observe. Our recently published study tested this hypothesis for the first time. We found that repetitive negative thinking was indeed associated with indicators of Alzheimer’s disease.

Our study looked at 292 older adults aged 55+ from the PREVENT-AD project in Canada. Their cognitive function was assessed, measuring memory, attention, spatial cognition, and language. Of these participants, 113 also had their brain scanned, which allowed researchers to measure deposits of tau and amyloid. These two proteins are biological markers of Alzheimer’s disease when they build up in the brain. A further 68 people from the IMAP+ project in France underwent PET brain scans to measure amyloid.

We found that people who exhibited higher repetitive negative thinking patterns experienced more cognitive decline over a four-year period. They also had specific declines in memory (which is an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease), and had more amyloid and tau deposits in their brain.

We also examined symptoms of depression and anxiety. We found that both were associated with cognitive decline, but not with deposits of either amyloid or tau. It may be that these symptoms are more indicative of decline that happens with ageing or dementia that is not due to Alzheimer’s disease. Equally, participants in this study had very low levels of depression and anxiety which would make it unlikely to be able to detect a relationship. These findings do suggest that repetitive negative thinking could one reason why depression and anxiety are associated with Alzheimer’s disease risk – which is in line with my “Cognitive Debt” hypothesis.

However, it is important to point out that although the hypothesis proposes repetitive negative thinking increases risk for dementia (specifically Alzheimer’s), the opposite may also be true. People who experience a decline in their condition may become more concerned or worried about their health – leading to repetitive negative thinking. Or, amyloid or tau could have accumulated in the brain, disrupted its circuitry, making it more difficult to disengage from negative thoughts. At this point we are unable to know which came first.

But how could our thoughts be associated with a disease of the brain? On a biological level, negative thinking is associated with increased stress. In fact, repetitive negative thinking is seen as a behavioural marker of chronic stress by causing elevated blood pressure and higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol. There’s increasing evidence that chronic stress is both harmful to your body – and your brain. But more research is needed to understand this link.

Given that repetitive negative thinking is responsive to treatments such as cognitive behavioural therapy or mindfulness, future research will look at whether reducing these thinking patterns also reduces dementia risk. In the meantime, there is evidence to suggest that many lifestyle habits – such as maintaining a healthy diet, exercising, and staying socially active – are all linked with lower risk of dementia. Although we don’t know whether reducing repetitive negative thinking could delay dementia in the future, taking steps to look after your mental health is still important for your well-being in the present.

Dr Natalie Marchant is an Alzheimer’s Society Senior Research Fellow based at University College London. She is currently involved in several UK- and internationally-funded projects to investigate lifestyle factors that increase risk or resilience to neurodegeneration, cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease; and behavioural interventions that may modify these factors. Disclosure statement: Natalie L Marchant receives funding from the Alzheimer’s Society, European Commission, and the Medical Research Council. This article was originally published on The Conversation.

Repetitive negative thinking linked to dementia risk

So obviously the point is to stop your negative thoughts about the complete failure of your doctor to get you 100% recovered.  I guess you need to forgive and forget.  Instead have positive thoughts about the 25% chance they will get to experience stroke and its aftermath.  Comeuppance will be a bitch.

Repetitive negative thinking linked to dementia risk

MedicalXpress Breaking News-and-Events|June 8, 2020

Persistently engaging in negative thinking patterns may raise the risk of Alzheimer disease, finds a new UCL-led study.

In the study of people aged over 55, published in Alzheimer's & Dementia, researchers found 'repetitive negative thinking' (RNT) is linked to subsequent cognitive decline as well as the deposition of harmful brain proteins linked to Alzheimer.

The researchers say RNT should now be further investigated as a potential risk factor for dementia, and psychological tools, such as mindfulness or meditation, should be studied to see if these could reduce dementia risk.

Lead author Dr. Natalie Marchant (UCL Psychiatry) said: "Depression and anxiety in mid-life and old age are already known to be risk factors for dementia. Here, we found that certain thinking patterns implicated in depression and anxiety could be an underlying reason why people with those disorders are more likely to develop dementia.

"Taken alongside other studies, which link depression and anxiety with dementia risk, we expect that chronic negative thinking patterns over a long period of time could increase the risk of dementia. We do not think the evidence suggests that short-term setbacks would increase one's risk of dementia.

"We hope that our findings could be used to develop strategies to lower people's risk of dementia by helping them to reduce their negative thinking patterns."

For the Alzheimer's Society-supported study, the research team from UCL, INSERM and McGill University studied 292 people over the age of 55 who were part of the PREVENT-AD cohort study, and a further 68 people from the IMAP+ cohort.

Over a period of 2 years, the study participants responded to questions about how they typically think about negative experiences, focusing on RNT patterns like rumination about the past and worry about the future. The participants also completed measures of depression and anxiety symptoms.

Their cognitive function was assessed, measuring memory, attention, spatial cognition, and language. Some (113) of the participants also underwent PET brain scans, measuring deposits of tau and amyloid, two proteins which cause the most common type of dementia, Alzheimer disease, when they build up in the brain.

The researchers found that people who exhibited higher RNT patterns experienced more cognitive decline over a 4-year period, and declines in memory (which is among the earlier signs of Alzheimer disease), and they were more likely to have amyloid and tau deposits in their brain.

Depression and anxiety were associated with subsequent cognitive decline but not with either amyloid or tau deposition, suggesting that RNT could be the main reason why depression and anxiety contribute to Alzheimer disease risk.

"We propose that repetitive negative thinking may be a new risk factor for dementia as it could contribute to dementia in a unique way," said Dr. Marchant.

The researchers suggest that RNT may contribute to Alzheimer risk via its impact on indicators of stress such as high blood pressure, as other studies have found that physiological stress can contribute to amyloid and tau deposition.

Co-author Dr. Gael Chételat (INSERM and Université de Caen-Normandie) commented: "Our thoughts can have a biological impact on our physical health, which might be positive or negative. Mental training practices such as meditation might help promoting positive- while down-regulating negative-associated mental schemes.

"Looking after your mental health is important, and it should be a major public health priority, as it's not only important for people's health and well-being in the short term, but it could also impact your eventual risk of dementia."

The researchers hope to find out if reducing RNT, possibly through mindfulness training or targeted talk therapy, could in turn reduce the risk of dementia. Dr. Marchant and Dr. Chételat and other European researchers are currently working on a large project to see if interventions such as meditation may help reduce dementia risk by supporting mental health in old age.

Fiona Carragher, Director of Research and Influencing at Alzheimer's Society, said: "Understanding the factors that can increase the risk of dementia is vital in helping us improve our knowledge of this devastating condition and, where possible, developing prevention strategies. The link shown between repeated negative thinking patterns and both cognitive decline and harmful deposits is interesting although we need further investigation to understand this better. Most of the people in the study were already identified as being at higher risk of Alzheimer disease, so we would need to see if these results are echoed within the general population and if repeated negative thinking increases the risk of Alzheimer disease itself.

"During these unstable times, we are hearing from people every day on our Alzheimer's Society Dementia Connect line who are feeling scared, confused, or struggling with their mental health. So it's important to point out that this isn't saying a short-term period of negative thinking will cause Alzheimer's disease. Mental health could be a vital cog in the prevention and treatment of dementia; more research will tell us to what extent."

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10 Common Negative Thinking Patterns and How You Can Change Them

You are going to need to know this to stop your rumination about the disaster of your stroke. But you can't listen to me because I'm not medically trained. Are you getting something like this from your doctor since you are getting NO protocols to get you 100% recovered?
From the Best Brain Possible with Debbie Hampton

10 Common Negative Thinking Patterns and How You Can Change Them

How Complaining Rewires Your Brain For Negativity (And How To Break The Habit)

You'll have nothing to complain about when your doctor has protocols that get you 100% recovered. But until then you need to vent to the stroke hospital president and ask why stroke recovery is so fucking poor at their hospital. 

How Complaining Rewires Your Brain For Negativity (And How To Break The Habit)

How To Train Your Brain To Go Positive Instead Of Negative

Your doctor should be training you in this since you don't want to go down the negative rumination route.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/womensmedia/2016/12/21/how-to-train-your-brain-to-go-positive-instead-of-negative/2/#51981ab95e55

How Complaining Rewires Your Brain For Negativity (and How You Can Use Mindfulness to Help You Stop)

Your hospital therapist and doctor should have protocols so you don't do this complaining or rumination. Neither of which do anything to get you 100% recovered.

How Complaining Rewires Your Brain For Negativity (and How You Can Use Mindfulness to Help You Stop)

Negavity blankets

A couple of articles from Tiny Buddha that your doctor and therapist should be providing you with to help your resilience.

Transforming Negative Thoughts & Creating the Life You Desire 

How to Feel Better When You’re Down (Without Forcing Yourself to Be Positive)

How Complaining Rewires Your Brain for Negativity

Be careful out there, not a good way to use neuroplasticity.

Do not do this on your own without your doctors ok.

The Simple Change to Daily Routine That Fights Bothersome Negative Thoughts That Won’t Go Away

How Complaining Rewires Your Brain for Negativity

Travis Bradberry

Contributor

Co-author of Emotional Intelligence 2.0 and President at TalentSmart

Research shows that most people complain once a minute during a typical conversation. Complaining is tempting because it feels good, but like many other things that are enjoyable -- such as smoking or eating a pound of bacon for breakfast -- complaining isn’t good for you.
Your brain loves efficiency and doesn’t like to work any harder than it has to. When you repeat a behavior, such as complaining, your neurons branch out to each other to ease the flow of information. This makes it much easier to repeat that behavior in the future -- so easy, in fact, that you might not even realize you’re doing it.
Related: 13 Cognitive Biases That Really Screw Things Up For You
You can’t blame your brain. Who’d want to build a temporary bridge every time you need to cross a river? It makes a lot more sense to construct a permanent bridge. So, your neurons grow closer together, and the connections between them become more permanent. Scientists like to describe this process as, “Neurons that fire together, wire together.”
Repeated complaining rewires your brain to make future complaining more likely. Over time, you find it’s easier to be negative than to be positive, regardless of what’s happening around you. Complaining becomes your default behavior, which changes how people perceive you.
And here’s the kicker: complaining damages other areas of your brain as well. Research from Stanford University has shown that complaining shrinks the hippocampus -- an area of the brain that’s critical to problem solving and intelligent thought. Damage to the hippocampus is scary, especially when you consider that it’s one of the primary brain areas destroyed by Alzheimer’s.
Related: How to Break a Bad Habit -- for Good

Complaining is also bad for your health

While it’s not an exaggeration to say that complaining leads to brain damage, it doesn’t stop there. When you complain, your body releases the stress hormone cortisol. Cortisol shifts you into fight-or-flight mode, directing oxygen, blood and energy away from everything but the systems that are essential to immediate survival. One effect of cortisol, for example, is to raise your blood pressure and blood sugar so that you’ll be prepared to either escape or defend yourself.
All the extra cortisol released by frequent complaining impairs your immune system and makes you more susceptible to high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease and obesity. It even makes the brain more vulnerable to strokes.

It’s Not Just You...

Since human beings are inherently social, our brains naturally and unconsciously mimic the moods of those around us, particularly people we spend a great deal of time with. This process is called neuronal mirroring, and it’s the basis for our ability to feel empathy. The flip side, however, is that it makes complaining a lot like smoking -- you don’t have to do it yourself to suffer the ill effects. You need to be cautious about spending time with people who complain about everything. Complainers want people to join their pity party so that they can feel better about themselves. Think of it this way: If a person were smoking, would you sit there all afternoon inhaling the second-hand smoke? You’d distance yourself, and you should do the same with complainers.

The solution to complaining

There are two things you can do when you feel the need to complain. One is to cultivate an attitude of gratitude. That is, when you feel like complaining, shift your attention to something that you’re grateful for. Taking time to contemplate what you’re grateful for isn’t merely the right thing to do; it reduces the stress hormone cortisol by 23%. Research conducted at the University of California, Davis, found that people who worked daily to cultivate an attitude of gratitude experienced improved mood and energy and substantially less anxiety due to lower cortisol levels. Any time you experience negative or pessimistic thoughts, use this as a cue to shift gears and to think about something positive. In time, a positive attitude will become a way of life.
Related: 10 Uncomfortable Deeds That Will Make You More Successful
The second thing you can do -- and only when you have something that is truly worth complaining about -- is to engage in solution-oriented complaining. Think of it as complaining with a purpose. Solution-oriented complaining should do the following:

1. Have a clear purpose. Before complaining, know what outcome you’re looking for. If you can’t identify a purpose, there’s a good chance you just want to complain for its own sake, and that’s the kind of complaining you should nip in the bud.
2. Start with something positive. It may seem counterintuitive to start a complaint with a compliment, but starting with a positive helps keep the other person from getting defensive. For example, before launching into a complaint about poor customer service, you could say something like, “I’ve been a customer for a very long time and have always been thrilled with your service...”
3. Be specific. When you’re complaining it’s not a good time to dredge up every minor annoyance from the past 20 years. Just address the current situation and be as specific as possible. Instead of saying, “Your employee was rude to me,” describe specifically what the employee did that seemed rude.
4. End on a positive. If you end your complaint with, “I’m never shopping here again,” the person who’s listening has no motivation to act on your complaint. In that case, you’re just venting, or complaining with no purpose other than to complain. Instead, restate your purpose, as well as your hope that the desired result can be achieved, for example, “I’d like to work this out so that we can keep our business relationship intact.”

Bringing It All Together

Just like smoking, drinking too much, and lying on the couch watching TV all day, complaining is bad for you. Put my advice to use, and you'll reap the physical, mental and performance benefits that come with a positive frame of mind.
A version of this article appeared on TalentSmart.

Negative communication between doctor and patient could make symptoms worse

Since your doctor does not do an objective diagnosis and has no written stroke protocols there is no chance of getting any good feelings from any encounter with your doctor. But you can meet your doctors' expectations by being in the 90% that don't get to a full recovery or become a 30 day death statistic..
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150130/Negative-communication-between-doctor-and-patient-could-make-symptoms-worse.aspx
Doctors who unintentionally communicate to patients that they don't believe or understand them could actually make symptoms worse, a new study suggests.
The research by the Universities of Southampton and Exeter indicates that a type of 'nocebo' response, where patients perceive a lack of understanding or acceptance from their doctor, could create anger and distress - physiological conditions that can worsen illness.
"Our work indicates that the effects of patients feeling that their doctor doesn't believe or understand them can be damaging both emotionally and physiologically," says lead author Dr Maddy Greville-Harris, from the University of Southampton. "This could lead to worsening of illness, known as the 'nocebo response'.
"Patients bring certain beliefs and expectations to their health care professional, which are moulded by the culture they live in and their previous experiences. Their expectations will undoubtedly affect the outcome but improving communication in consultations could make a big difference to patient care. This is a small study and more research is needed on a larger scale."

Published in the American Journal of Medicine, the researchers recorded and analysed consultations at a pain management clinic involving five women with chronic wide-spread pain. During subsequent interviews, patients reported feeling dismissed and disbelieved by healthcare providers, encountering providers who did not invest in them or show insight into their condition.
Patients described feeling hopeless and angry after invalidating consultations, feeling an increased need to justify their condition or to avoid particular doctors or treatment altogether.

More at link.

The Simple Change to Daily Routine That Fights Bothersome Negative Thoughts That Won’t Go Away

Do not do this on your own without your doctors ok.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2014/12/the-simple-change-to-daily-routine-that-fights-bothersome-negative-thoughts-that-wont-go-away.php?utm_source=PsyBlog
The research, published in the journal Cognitive Therapy and Research, asked 100 adults about their sleeping patterns and gave them tests of persistent negative thoughts (Nota & Coles, 2014).
The tests assessed how much people:

• worried,
• obsessed,
• and ruminated.

The results found a link between persistent negative thoughts and going to bed late.

More at link.

Positive, Negative Thinkers’ Brains Revealed

What is your doctor doing to find out the proper way to approach your mental state to make sure that your recovery will occur?
http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/news/2014/04/positive-negative-thinkers%E2%80%99-brains-revealed?
The ability to stay positive when times get tough—and, conversely, of being negative—may be hardwired in the brain, finds new research led by a Michigan State University psychologist.
The study, which appears in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, is the first to provide biological evidence validating the idea that there are, in fact, positive and negative people in the world.
“It’s the first time we’ve been able to find a brain marker that really distinguishes negative thinkers from positive thinkers,” said Jason Moser, lead investigator and assistant professor of psychology.
For the study, 71 female participants were shown graphic images and asked to put a positive spin on them while their brain activity was recorded. Participants were shown a masked man holding a knife to a woman’s throat, for example, and told one potential outcome was the woman breaking free and escaping.
The participants were surveyed beforehand to establish who tended to think positively and who thought negatively or worried. Sure enough, the brain reading of the positive thinkers was much less active than that of the worriers during the experiment.
“The worriers actually showed a paradoxical backfiring effect in their brains when asked to decrease their negative emotions,” Moser said. “This suggests they have a really hard time putting a positive spin on difficult situations and actually make their negative emotions worse even when they are asked to think positively.”
The study focused on women because they are twice as likely as men to suffer from anxiety related problems and previously reported sex differences in brain structure and function could have obscured the results.
Moser said the findings have implications in the way negative thinkers approach difficult situations.
“You can’t just tell your friend to think positively or to not worry—that’s probably not going to help them,” he said. “So you need to take another tack and perhaps ask them to think about the problem in a different way, to use different strategies.”
Negative thinkers could also practice thinking positively, although Moser suspects it would take a lot of time and effort to even start to make a difference.
Source: Michigan State University