How do I get over disappointment?

One of the best strategies for mental health is minimizing the amount of time you spend down in the dumps because of a misfortune. When you're knocked down, get back on your feet as fast as you can.

Optimism sometimes gets a bad rep. There's stupid optimism, which says that things are great when they're obviously not, but there's also smart optimism, which is always looking for ways to make lemonade out of the lemons life gives us every day - big ones and little ones. Instead of cursing your bad luck when things don't go as planned, look for the advantages of the new situation. Use your imagination. This is how to be "lucky."

Thousands of years ago, a wise man said that discontentment comes from two poisons of the mind - attachment, which is derived from the illusion that things can be permanent, and fear.

Psychologist Marsha Linehan, who created Dialectical Behavior Therapy, says that acceptance isn't liking something. It's learning to live with something we don't like that won't go away, at least not for a while.

A couple of tips

When you're in a bad mood, look at the thought that triggered it. See if it's false or otherwise useless. If it is, let it go and replace it with two positive thoughts.

Count your blessings, and remind yourself of your past successes.

Stop and smell the roses. Appreciate all the nice things in daily life.

I've answered a lot of mental health questions, with advice from experts about a variety of problems.

There's a lot of things that can help. For example, you might be interested in stress management advice. Research has come up with various things that are effective and easy if not downright fun.

If you haven't arrived at the fact that 'disappointment' is an everyday and quite normal experience of everyday living, then you must be suffering some sort of mental aberration that is going to be a constant trouble to your existence, and you have my sincerest sympathy.

The only other possibility is that you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth and were spilt rotten.. This latter possibility sadly places you at a far greater disadvantages you mental ability will be totally unable to adapt.

everyone faces disappointment at some juncture in the road, you must move on from it and keep moving forward.

By not wallowing in childish idiocy.

see it as a learning experience.

move on