I have read that suicide prevention lines often make

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4. Make yourself a good cup of tea and take the afternoon one hour at a time

Try to find something you can find some pleasure in - music, a tv show, some cookies - and get some good feelings from them.

Try to be thankful for something you do have but that has become underappreciated. Maybe a comfortable chair, the heating bills paid, being warm and dry during a storm.

Sometimes outside sources do not help. We need to rebalance our perspective on the smallest of things in our own environment.

I've had chronic pain, and it seems to me emotional pain is much the same. Taking the excruciating parts one moment at a time helps.