Sometimes, in the course of our day, we receive some bad news - yet another stressor, yet another hurdle has been added to our seemingly endless obstacle course. We are barely getting by day to day as is - how can we handle this additional difficulty?
The depressive mind, the anxious mind responds to such a situation by adding it to the list of reasons why everything is hopeless, why we are doomed to more misery.
Perhaps there is a better way.
Perhaps we can acknowledge that this news means challenges and frustrations ahead, while not assuming that all is hopeless. Perhaps we can even use such a challenge to motivate us to find a better situation. This doesn’t pretend the challenge isn’t there. We don’t need to “think positively,” we need to think realistically and strategically.