Complaining for the sake of complaining does not improve one’s mental health or stress levels. In order to initiate change, we need to offer a constructive suggestion instead of a whining complaint.

Dear Dave: I manage a team made up of all types of personalities, but the one thing that most of them have in common is that they do more than their fair share of complaining. I am partly to blame, ...

There are many reasons why complaining is a bad habit: It puts you in a bad mood. It keeps you focused on flaws and problems. It makes you sound suspicious and distrustful. It annoys the people who ...

Complaining can be annoying, to ourselves, and especially to others who must listen to our complaints. It can weigh us down and create an aura of negativity around us. Nobody wants to be around a ...

Whether we admit to it or not, many of us have a penchant for complaining. Grumbling about unfavorable circumstances, difficult relationships or demanding jobs may help us feel as if we are releasing ...

Whew. Turns out that all that griping we've done in our lifetime may not have been toxic, companion-repelling and totally in vain. Turns out that we don't have to put on an angelic face and mutter, "I ...

When complaining, do you offer a solution? If I were to answer "no" to that question, I’d be correct 99% of the time because our complaining has become routine for all of us. Problem solving wasn’t ...

There’s complaining. And then there’s complaining. In its more benign form, complaining between friends can feel beneficial. Light grousing about a mutual foe, for example, can cultivate camaraderie.

Let’s be honest—complaining is basically a hobby at this point. We complain about the weather, traffic, our jobs, our coffee being too cold, our coffee being too hot... you get the idea. Sometimes ...