How To Cope With Emotional Breakdown
April 14, 2008
What happens when dreams and visions of achievement come to an end? Goals with hope attached, yearning desires to seek it all slips out of your fingers, what do you do? Everything that was once perceived to be reality becomes fantasy.
“Why did it happen? What will I do now? How can this happen to me? Why does this always happen to me? Is it my fault?”
I am sure these questions sound familiar. These daunting thoughts follow us until we try to resolve them or come to terms that those dreams were never meant to be.
Do these questions stop when we command them too? Never!
They persistently follow us like buzzards over a dead carcass. Shoo them, they move away but they keep circling around gawking from a distance, looking for a chance to strike back.
A person whom you loved so dearly turns around one day to tell you that they never loved you at all. It was just a cordial and polite gesture on their part. Where does this leave you? Looking foolish, disheartened and rejected. Like this there are many emotional hurdles which each one of us comes across.
So what does a person do if he/she is experiencing such feelings? What do they do to move on? How does one get over such timeless defeats and regain their self worth?
Kind words, sympathetic ear from friends, reading self-help books or taking a holiday may give you temporary comfort. One may even pretend to forget them but how many of us can really do it so easily?
Does time really heal all wounds? If so, how long does each painful scar take? Will the old memories totally stop stalking us?
6 Tips To Manage An Emotional Breakdown:
1) Solutions and happiness don’t pop out like rabbits from a magician’s hat. They have to be worked on. You need to understand why a particular situation happened? Try to introspect without blaming yourself or others. Be a third party to your problem.
2) Discuss the agony with someone you trust who will genuinely guide you with realistic and unbiased solutions. If there is no such person then consult a therapist.
3) This is a very vulnerable situation so any wayward action will make the situation worse. Avoid drinking, consuming drugs or sleeping pills. These will only lead to depression and give rise to suicidal thoughts.
4) Focus on the positive things in your life.
5) Join a community and open up to people who are suffering similar dilemmas. This will help you realize that you are not alone.
6) Think positively and never lose hope.
Support comes from those who care, the rest are just by-standers. In your times of need, you will realize who your real friends and well-wishers are. Life is a test for all of us.
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My adult son tried to kill him self Easter week end of 2008. He was getting no support from his wife through all of his stress that he was going through, which what was lead to him trying to killing my self. So our adult son turned to his mother and dad for emtional support. Through the months that followed, he got the help he needed and did a turn around on us as his parents. He wants nothing to do with us now. I had an emotional breakdown as his mother, he even took our little grand daughters away from us. I can not even to begin to tell anyone what this has done to me. My emotional pain is so deep. I want to feel joy again…please pray for me.
i am am 30 year old young . I love i girl too much . From six months i am working in abroad and also since then i am not able to talk with her . When i arrive here she told me i love u .i have no any contact to talk with her. so i am feeling too much pain , there is always tears in mjy eyes. I dont want to come here but i only so it to convince her parent that i am working.
At my work place people think me abnormal and not enough competnt .they complain about kmy behaviour and body language . I also find people behaviour not good towards me.i am working as safety officer and this is my first exposoure in the corporate world.
Therefore i always weep and in too much stress.
so pray for me.