3 Practical Strategies to Overcome Emotional Pain

Stop waiting for time to heal your emotional distress.

Every day we are dealing with emotional pain. Whether it’s from a past relationship or just an insult — we’re battling emotional outbursts, every single day.

If we look more closely, we’ll find that it’s not the suffering that hurts but repeatedly thinking about it makes the mental wounds unbearable. When we share it with our friends or family, they console us with the same generic advice, “Don’t worry! Time will heal everything.”

Without thinking much, we follow that advice. We try to ignore the pain, thinking that time will do the needful. In the meantime, we distract our minds. Sometimes, we go to movies, pubs, bars, etc., while sometimes we over-socialize to stay away from the pain as much as possible.

Though distraction soothes the pain for a while, it bounces back with double intensity when that distraction stops. Ignoring the problem acts like a stretched rubber band. The pain boils over sooner or later and culminates into anxiety and stress.

Emotional wounds are similar to physical ones up to an extent. It starts getting better only with proper care. But, if we keep scratching the mental scars, how can we expect time to heal it?

Besides, believing that time will heal the emotional wound doesn't give us the liberty to keep reliving the painful memories by reminiscing them. It’s like waiting for a doctor without applying the first aid. The more we keep thinking about the past, the more we’re only distancing ourselves from that “time healing factor.” The more we scratch our emotional wounds, the worse it becomes(with time).

But the question remains — How do we apply the first aid to our mental sufferings so that “time” plays its part?

When I had my first college breakup, it was a nightmare for me. My entire life turned upside down. I could not forgive her for dumping me and this pain worsened day by day. I stopped eating, drinking, meeting friends, and couldn’t even sleep.

Everyone tried to cheer me up by advising the time healing factor BS. But, no…

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