Mentally Simulating a Break Up

We are a remarkably adaptive animal. We have been born and bred to pick ourselves up by the boot straps and soldier on. Dan calls this capacity to overcome adversity our psychological immune system. As soon as we start to feel bad, our mind deploys a whole host of mental defenses. Just like our physical immune system kicks in when we get sick, our psychological immuneSystem turns on when we're in mental distress. And our psychological immune System works really, really well.