Not necessarily. It can simply be honesty and writing down the straight truth, which is much better than the fake/false positivity. And even if people would not write about it, those things would be still here, and anyone can see them.

And how did that work out.

There is nothing fake or false about being positive. You can choose to focus upon the negative and keep embracing it but then you will end up with little to nothing in life.

Nothing is perfect.