How To Get Over Someone ...By Re-intrepreting Reality
Over the years I've helped thousands successfully get over someone they love and get over that deep depression that breakups induce. Every relationship and every break up story is different but there are common factors. These can be used to examine the situation to help get over the break up.
A main factor for finding it difficult to get over someone is holding in your mind false ideas about love and relationships themselves.
In my book “How To Get Over Anyone In Less Than A Week Using Psychology” I go through this in detail. To understand break up depression, first you must understand the constituents of the pain your suffering.
Why am I experiencing depression trying to get over someone?
Depression occurs when we don't get or realise we wont get a thing that meant a lot for us to have. When someone gets dumped the mind realises it now wont have something it really wanted (a partner) and chemicals are realised in the brain inducing depression.
Lets consider a comparison to getting over someone. If you didn't get a job you were hoping to get because someone else got it, you would feel bad about it. But if a week later you passed an interview for an even bigger job you would feel great again and felt your career would take off now.
So what has this to do with getting over someone? People who can't get over someone are people that can’t detach themselves from their ex no matter what. Even if other partners were immediately available, they prevent the needed acceptance from occurring. Acceptance, that allows people to healthily get over someone.
Unrealistic hope can prevent you from getting over someone
So long as you're still hoping even the tiniest amount 2 or 3% that you can still get back with someone that dumped you - acceptance will never occur. And your continued suffering is assured. You will only accept the break up once all hope is gone.
Sometimes people can accept a death more easily than a break up simply because they know that that end is final. You need to rid yourself of any lingering unhealthy hope. This way a person can get over someone much quicker and easier.
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Acceptance can only occur once ALL hope is gone: If necessary confirm with the person if its fully over. Sometimes the other person might try to string you along keeping you in their pocket and you'll need to recognise this if it's the case. Again I deal with this topic in the above book. It’s crucial to fully accept its over to get over someone properly.
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Daydreaming will only make you feel worse: Stop yourself having any mental thoughts of you and your ex magically being back together and everything being ok. This visualisation will only cause more depression and confusion in your mind.
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You must acknowledge that you have other options available to you: Though you don't see it now, they may be much better than the person that dumped you. It can be difficult to get over someone if there aren't other options immediately available to you but you must remember that they are out there.
In essence, you're finding it difficult to get over someone because right now you've lost hope but at the same time you still have this tiny bit of hope that maybe you and your ex will get back together and everything will be better again.
Kill this unhealthy hope and your ties with your ex will begin to fade from your mind. Your pain will disappear and you can look forward to meeting someone new again. This process is the only way to get over someone properly.
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