Dr. Sue Varma

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unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver · Train Your Brain To Thrive Through Menopause · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

That is toxic positivity.

Telling someone to look on the bright side without first understanding the depths and the gravity of what they have been through, right?

Like that to me is dismissive at best or toxic positivity at worst, right?

Optimism simply says that there is the potential for good things to happen, right?

And practical optimism says, let's turn those positive outlooks into positive outcomes through action.

So there are a group of people who have blind optimism, right?

That's not what we're talking about.

That extreme optimism where the person, I'll give you an example, and you must see this in your practice.

I see this a lot in male patients, right?

In family members that I know who go to their primary care doctor

And the doctor will say, yeah, there's some things, you know, your numbers are a little bit off, your hemoglobin A1C is a little bit high, your cholesterol.

And the patient comes home hearing, it'll all work out.

Nothing is too bad right now.

Like I can make a few changes and we can, yeah.

Yeah.

Or the doctor's like, I'm not so worried right now.

Let's come back in three to six months.

And they don't change anything because they bury their head in the sand.

Because they're so positive, they think it'll be fine.

And they're dismissive, right?

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