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If you are truly sad, it rarely helps to tell yourself to ‘snap out of it’. You can only cover up sadness this way. The danger then is that you may become depressed or your bottled-up feelings may re-emerge at a highly inconvenient time.

Try instead to set aside some private time to heal and feel your blues. Close the door, switch off your phone and have a few hours of intensive nurturing. For example, you might choose to make yourself a meal of comfort foods, put on some quiet, uplifting music, have a soak in the bath and then retire early to bed with a light absorbing novel or video. If tears emerge, cry them out. Don’t worry that once you start they will never stop. Crying is a natural by-product of sadness and it makes most people feel a good deal better. Equally, don’t be too concerned if you cannot cry. Unlike the comfort and rest, weeping is not an essential emotional healer.