"Good vibes only" is a Biohazard. Time for Emotional Hygiene

The age of emotional miasma

If you don't know what miasma is. I will tell you, it is just stink, the one coming from disease, contaminated water and decomposition. We used to believe it was the cause of disease, not just a cosmetic side effect.

Basically, the 19th century blamed cholera on ‘bad air’ while drinking shit-water.

Doctors who said we should be washing our hands and not drink poop water, were ridiculed or even worse imprisoned.

We were so dumb, right? Ain't no way the same thing is happening now, right?

Right?

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Why are we so resistant to change?

Today, we blame anxiety on ‘negativity’ while still drowning in trauma-sewage. We focus on removing the visual symptoms while still ignoring the core issues.

History’s repeating—and we’re still gulping the lies.

It is the Semmelweis Syndrome happening in mental health

1847: Doctors mocked handwashing.

2025: ‘Just meditate!’ replaces sterile empathy.

We sterilize scalpels but not our words.

Result?

Emotional sepsis.

Toxic positivity has become the new Miasma theory for feelings, blaming sufferers natural responses as anger, sorrow, despair for "bad air".

Gaslighting is like pumping trauma-sewage into community wells which collectively makes us sick.

Performative sympathy is like hand-washing with dirt.

Good vibes only has become the new parfume instead of shower solution.

The solution: emotional hygiene!

John Snow didn’t send thoughts and prayers—he mapped the fucking outbreak.

Real emotional hygiene demands:

TRUTH TRACKING:

Name the source: shame, neglect, abuse, bullying, physical reasons that affect mental health. I will expand on those in a later post. Stay tuned.

SANITIZE OUR LANGUAGE

Enough with spiritual bypassing. Treat others as the like to be treated, not h’s ow you like to be treated. Let’s follow the platinum rule.

Replace:

Share in the comments what else comes to mind.

As someone with a hidden disability (Guillain Barre syndrome and PTSD), this hits even harder. I am so done with "but you look fine", "you are so strong" and “just push yourself”.

I ampissed, I don't want to be some inspirational porn for being strong and resilient. I want to be weak, vulnerable, validated and listened to, not managed for the miasma I am emitting.

Knowing how shitty our collective emotional intelligence is, makes me both despaired and hopeful.

Despaired, because it is everywhere, and hopeful, because I have a roadmap now, I can practice emotional hygiene for myself and connect with kindred spirits.

And I already have. This is the way! Let's do it together. Share this post with whomever it vibes with!