There are few things that you can do during what seems to be an inevitable down draught. One of them is, again, based on some interesting research. There's some very interesting research on what's called mental substraction of positive events. When you mentally subtract positive events, it's a thinking exercise to make people to shine a light on the more positive aspects of their current lives. The other thing to think about is, it might be limited solace, but you're not alone. What you're experiencing is pretty normal. If you compare your feelings and your in this mid life dip to everybody else instagram feeds, you can say, oh, my god, i'm such a