How do you deal with disappointment?

Does it take you a long time to recover? Or can you just shrug if off like it was nothing?

For me, I'm having a hard time dealing with it. Sometimes it never goes away and it lingers somewhere in my head, even years after it happened.

It physically affects me. Usually, I just lay on the bed and stare at the ceiling for an hour, until I realize I'm just wasting time and then I try to get up and do something to get my mind off it.

C'est la vie, I try not to dwell on it.

I smoke a blunt and move on with my life. Like Katt Williams said, "it's got an extra ingredient known as, F*** it".

I try to move on and not dwell on things.

certain things are hard to brush off, so I just think through where things went wrong and try not to make the same mistake again if the cause of the disappointment was avoidable.

I constantly bang my head on the wall so I can feel the agony of my disappointments:

But overall, playing my video games takes away my disappointments :)

If I feel like shit i'll maybe take time out, but never sit still and feel sorry myself, hate seeing it in other people and certainly don't want to share the attribute.

LMAO!

@davillain- said:

I constantly bang my head on the wall so I can feel the agony of my disappointments:

But overall, playing my video games takes away my disappointments :)

damn

Escapism.

HJ GOOD DAY

Depends on what it is I suppose and the severity of my disappointment. When I'm disappointed in other people I usually can shrug it off. When I'm disappointed in myself it gets harder to deal with, and when I figure out an effective coping mechanism beyond "time" I'll let you know.

For the record I think preventative measures can be useful, but I don't really view them as coping mechanisms either because if you prevent yourself from being disappointed in yourself you are not having to cope with whatever it was that would have disappointed you. And continually trying to prevent disappointment assumes you can infinitely stave off the inevitable, when you simply can't do so all the time.

Dont attach yourself to it, its only temporary. You cant be a boss if your scared of a loss.

I think about it over and over again until it ruins my day(s).

I'm a pessimistic person everyday is a fucking disappointment.

Yeah...

I used to be just like you tbh.

See, this is what I need to avoid. Either I need to work on fixing it or stop worrying about it. It's the worrying that stops me from accomplishing other things that only serves to dissapoint me in what I fail to do that day.

I would recommend you boys read up on self fulfilling prophecies and how our expectations shape our moods/perceptions

I take a dump on Debra's desk. :P

I misinterpret my stage direction as a line and I shout it out loud:

-Byshop

gotten much better with dealing with it as i've gotten older, pretty much rolls off my back at this point. i guess that comes from getting to experience it over and over and OVER AND OVER AGAIN


"I'VE LEARNED THAT LIFE IS ONE CRUSHING DEFEAT AFTER ANOTHER...

UNTIL YOU JUST WISH FLANDERS WAS DEAD."

Sounds like a plan! :D

I won't cry...

I always try to fill my head with information, books, games, movies.

Well, it's her fault for rejecting me. :P