10 Ways To Feel Better All By Yourself

4) Write a List of Grievances. I used to do this all the time when I was feeling upset. In your head, all of your worries can seem like they’re never ending. But once you get them on paper, even if your number is substantial, it’s exponentially smaller than infinity. All I do here is take a piece of paper and write all of the things that I can think of that upset me — my mother’s death, the fact that Dartmouth didn’t accept me two years ago, acne, a grade on a paper. I usually write them in a colors other than black and just keep going until I can think of nothing else. Then I separate everything into three categories — things I can help change, things I can’t help change at all, and things that I just shouldn’t care about (Dartmouth).