Set a Time Limit
Make it a priority to get all the angst out of your system so you can get back to the important business of appreciating life. Rob Brezsny, author of Pronoia Is the Antidote to Paranoia, offers this advice:
“You’re invited to celebrate Unhappy Hour. It’s a ceremony that gives you a poetic license to rant and whine and howl and bitch about everything that hurts you and makes you feel bad. During this perverse grace period, there’s no need for you to be inhibited as you unleash your tortured squalls. You don’t have to tone down the extremity of your desolate clamors… Here’s the catch: It’s brief. It’s concise. It’s crisp. You dive into your darkness for no more than 60 minutes, then climb back out, free and clear.”