Fucking rumination

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5. You'd be eliminating a toxin in your life. Similar to quitting drinking because it's killing you

The ex-drinker misses the drink, but knows it was going to eventually kill them so they endure the longing for drink, and take it, day-by-day, hour-by-hour.

There are coping methods. I have used EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and NLP (Neuro linguistic Programming) both just simple ways to train your brain to stop driving you nuts.

Easiest way is to decide whenever you have a negative though, jump in and change the narrative. Example: Change "I should have ..." to "No, I did my best." I could give more examples if I knew your self talk. Just change the narrative in your head.

Also never ask why. Why cannot be answered. Instead ask what if? What if I met a new friend?