How do you cope after friend breakups?

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2. Therapy, especially former long term friendships I have known since my childhood.

3. I cry a lot. I talk about my grief with my therapist. I cry some more.

4. would love to know bc i feel like i still haven’t dealt with it properly. i basically removed them from all social media and trusted that time would healed. i met new friends, got closer to other people, and just moved on. I still think about them though, but it’s normal because they were a big part of my life.

   one thing for sure though, life goes on

5. Get really, really angry. But that’s just a secondary emotion I guess.

   I try to be nice to myself. Eat good food, talk through it with other good friends. And try my best to process things that way. But I’m a talker, writing things down works as well.

6. Even though I was the one to end that friendship and it was really bad for both sides, I still went through it hard. I cried a lot, listened to angry music, couldn’t sleep and eat. Then I decided to stop. Move on. I stopped talking about it. I wrote everything I felt in a form of letter and buried it. Then I started to be nice to myself. I did all the things I wanted to do. Overtime it got better, but I’ll admit, it took a long time. Obvious things: I cut all communication.

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8. Friendship break ups are the worse.

   Lots of self care.
   Try to get out and about with other friends or family.
   Take time to process your feelings.

   Take care ❤️