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8 Ways to Recover from a Breakup
Meet new people
While rebounding can be risky, it is OK when one feels ready — on average, it takes people three to six months — to test the dating waters.
This is probably the quickest way to restore one’s feeling of being a viable mate. The key is to take it slow and steady.
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Take Your Time
Breaking up can trigger chemical, emotional and physical reactions that cause you to feel lonely, unloveable, depressed, and worthless.
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Good Grief
The five stages of grief are:
- denial (inability to accept reality),
- anger (physical tension, frustration, resentment),
- bargaining (magical thinking, pleading to God),
- depression (sadness, emptiness, guilt, sleeplessness, loss of appetite, hopelessness),
- acceptance.
Become Anti-Social (Media)
Nothing good can come from looking at your ex’s Instagram stories or Facebook timeline. When it comes to social media, just say no.
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Loneliness Is a State of Mind
Loneliness, according to many experts, is not necessarily about being alone. Instead, if you feel alone and isolated, then that is how loneliness plays into your state of mind....
Causes
- Loneliness is strongly connected to genetics.
- Situational variables, such as physical isolation, moving to a new location, divorce and the death of someone significant in a person's life can also lead to feelings of loneliness.
- Loneliness can be a symptom of a psychological disorder such as depression.
- Loneliness can also be attributed to internal factors such as low self-esteem.
Health Risks Associated With Loneliness
Loneliness has a wide range of negative effects on both physical and mental health, including:
- Depression and suicide
- Cardiovascular disease and stroke
- Increased stress levels
- Decreased memory and learning
- Antisocial behavior
- Poor decision-making
- Alcoholism and drug abuse
- The progression of Alzheimer's disease
- Altered brain function
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Dealing with difficult times
We may wonder if it is even possible to thrive during difficult patches in our lives.
The word difficult could mean something different for every person, but the constant is our commitm...
Keep the big picture in mind
What you're going through is just a chapter of your life. The rest of the story is still unwritten. Once you emerge from a difficult period, a blank page will await you to change the record.
At the moment, everything feels confusing, but hindsight will be 20/20 vision.
Define your success
Define your success. It is critical in order to know yourself. Success could be your health, career, friendships, being a good spouse or parent.
Difficult times in life require us to redefine our objective, to modify them to fit our new situations. What does betterment look like to you? Is it better health, better grades, healthy relationships? Write down your priorities and work towards them daily.