negative thinking

“The aim is to motivate inmates to want to stay away from drugs, to renew their lives without them, and to address negative thinking regarding drugs,” says Lau Kuan Mei, Deputy Director for the Correctional Rehabilitation Service.

Published as a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research in April, the model indexes for three characteristics of mental illnesses – rumination, negative thinking and reinforced behaviors – and attempts to measure how those characteristics affect a person’s consumption, job choice, savings and portfolio choices.

"We need to move on, get rid of negative thinking and start being a better set of human beings than we've been taught to be or led to believe. We are a much better country than that, and it's about time started behaving like it."

Appearance dissatisfaction and negative evaluations of self are associated with depression, lower self-esteem, habitual negative thinking and increased social anxiety.

The act alone allowed him to tune out the negative thinking and self-doubt during a difficult time in his life.