Did you have another fight with your best friends? Is your boss giving you a hard time at work? Do you feel your family isn't even trying to understand you? Did you break your iPhone's display, again? 

Life is a stream of good and bad things. If you felt good about the prettiest girl in the office looking at you and smiling, then there definitely will be a bad time such as your Uber breaking down in the middle of nowhere at night. Being happy in life isn't about exclusively experiencing good things, but by overcoming the bad ones with a smile. As author and essayist, Anais Nin once wrote, "the secret of joy is the mastery of pain". 

How do you accomplish that when you are spiraling deep into the emotional tsunami of depression and loneliness, you may wonder? Well, here are 7 things you can do that will help you beat the blues and lift your spirit when you are feeling down. 

1.Write it down

Get a journal, a notebook, or a bunch of papers. Write down why your now ex-boyfriend, who broke your heart, is a pig. Turn your emotions into words. Write about that worrying problem you have at work.

Writing by hand will help you process the situation deeply and help you to figure out a solution. If you are finding it difficult to express your emotions in prose, then just try to list them out.

Make a table of three columns. Put the problem you are worried about in the first column, how it is making you feel in the second one. Finally, if there is a fix or solution you can come up with, write it in the third column. Remember, “tears are words that need to be written.”

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