hella stressed hella depressed ✨ LEMON ZEST ✨

• temporarily distance yourself from from the person that has made you upset. this can help to avoid conflict and save your relationship.

• use some dbt skills to calm yourself down. i usually take a cold shower to confuse my body and it distracts me from spiralling.

• distract yourself, watch your favourite show, play your favourite game, draw something. keep yourself busy.

• vent to someone else that you trust (with their permission of course). keeping all your emotions and troubles to yourself might make things worse, having someone else reality-check you can be helpful.

• think long term. if you split on someone make sure to apologise. even if you don’t mean it in the moment, if you value the relationship it’s super important to fix it even if it doesn’t feel important right there and then.