The phrase "a negative state" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a condition or situation that is unfavorable or undesirable, often in psychological or emotional contexts.
Example: "After the breakup, she found herself in a negative state, struggling to find joy in her daily activities."
Alternatives: "an adverse condition" or "a detrimental situation".
But, getting into a negative state of mind doesn't help either of you to be productive.
Its converse is pity, a negative state elicited by downward comparisons towards worse-off others.
Envy is a negative state arising when we encounter others with more desirable circumstances than our own.
For example, moderately surprising outcomes violate people's expectations and may trigger a negative state that people are motivated to reduce.
In the 60s a paper in the Journal Of The American Geriatric Society talked about menopausal women acquiring 'a vapid, cow-like feeling called a negative state'.
It turns out that worrying about something puts your mind into a negative state, but this helps, because when something negative does happen, you don't feel that much worse.
We also incorporated a representation of recall bias into the model by allowing the lifetime prevalent cases to make a transition to a false negative state.
Because boredom is a decidedly negative state of mind, it may be argued that, logically, it is not leisure at all.
In her plaintive journal entry, Eliot went on, "The difficulty is, to decide how far resolution should set in the direction of activity rather than in the acceptance of a more negative state".
Secondly, the conduction bands consisting of Nb4d orbitals located at a more negative state of redox potential of H+/H2 promote the separation and transfer of photo-induced charge carriers and result in high photocatalytic activities [13].
I'm not sure if I would go as far as to say it would depress them, but it would certainly put them into a more negative state".
