Blaming 2020 Is Bad for Your Mental Health

The false hope that the negative events of this year will get better in 2021 is an example of what psychologists call ‘magical thinking’

Jordan Davidson
Elemental
Published in
4 min readDec 1, 2020

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Illustration: Olivia Fields

Fuck 2020. We’ve all thought it or said it aloud at least once or 100 times this year. Between the Covid-19 pandemic, the disastrous global effects of climate…

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