Distractions Can Help You Feel Better

Ruminators often cut themselves off from other people, and so they become an echo chamber for their own negative thoughts. When we're feeling unhappydand depressed, we often feel misunderstood. And the last thing you want is to listen to some rousing, happy music because that's just yet another person who doesn't understand how you're feeling. You put on the right sad music and you go, ah, yes, that that musician understands me. I'm no longer sitting alone at the edge of the cliff looking over the abyss, but there's somebody next to me,. Somebody who's been through this and turned their experience into a beautiful of art.