"pessimistic thinking" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a mindset or attitude of consistently expecting the worst to happen or having a negative outlook on life. Example: Despite his success and good fortune, John's constant pessimistic thinking prevented him from enjoying his achievements and appreciating the positive aspects of his life.
Given the natural guile of the enemy, I become pessimistic, thinking that the weeds will always be one step ahead of me, that I can never defeat them.
The findings suggest potential uses for psilocybin in the treatment of depression, a condition characterised by rigidly pessimistic thinking patterns.
To question that my help and support is not important to R would be pessimistic thinking indeed.
This is, of course, a terrible caricature, but although Brown clearly doesn't endorse Hobbes's authoritarian conclusion, he surely must endorse some of the pessimistic thinking behind it.
Symptoms of major depressive disorder include a sad or hopeless mood, pessimistic thinking, a loss of enjoyment and interest in one's usual activities and pastimes, reduced energy and vitality, increased fatigue, slowness of thought and action, change of appetite, and disturbed sleep.
Happy people rein in their pessimistic thinking in three ways.
Old, pessimistic way of thinking: I've missed my daughter's entire university career, from freshers' week to graduation, just sitting here waiting for someone to explain why my broadband speed is so slow that it takes longer for me to load a web page than it would take a mollusc to translate the New Testament into Portuguese.
… Look, even in my most pessimistic moment, when thinking about housing and its impact on the economy and I started writing in late summer '07, a year after I had started writing about housing, that I thought a recession was all but inevitable even on my most pessimistic days in that era, there were things about this that I could not possibly have fathomed.
It takes a lot of energy to keep thinking pessimistic thoughts.
My optimistic half (okay, third) warms to the thought of teens nationwide leaping screaming into the laps of their zit-stippled dates all summer long; my pessimistic half just keeps thinking about that glut.
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