How did you get through a really bad time in your life?

[Anonymous]

If you went through a bad time, break up, divorce, loss of a loved one etc etc etc what kind of things did you do to help get you back on track?

[SecretsofKB]

So I broke up with my longterm SO at the time I accepted my dream job which was the month before the world shut down for COVID. We broke up because our life paths were not taking us in a direction that we could stay together.

So in the course of a month, I exchanged a person I was in love with for a job I wanted so bad which put me right in the middle of a pandemic. I was stressed.

I was so focused on the pandemic that I didn't truly have a chance to deal with the breakup properly. I hit me about 6 months later. Lots of crying and time. That is how I dealt with it.

[PJH359]

At first, unfortunately, I turned to substance abuse to basically escape the painful feelings of loss and sudden and drastic changes in my life…Unwelcomed changes. I knew I had to quit that behavior so I did what most people do and that was detox and rehab. During those couple of months I also received a great deal of individual and group counseling to deal with my underlying issues. Those sessions changed my life for the better along with a small amount of anti anxiety medication. So I would highly recommend counseling or meeting with a psychiatrist or psychologist if one can’t deal with the trauma alone.

[WhitneySnow]

Talking to friends going to therapy spending time alone (I’m an introvert so that helps)

[Anonymous]

Drugs, not eating, and frequent naps.

[Zoi03]

Ben and Jerry, friends, and movies.