{"id":19979,"date":"2022-09-06T20:16:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T00:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=19979"},"modified":"2022-09-12T16:05:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T20:05:30","slug":"how-to-cope-with-a-big-disappointment-or-personal-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/09\/06\/how-to-cope-with-a-big-disappointment-or-personal-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"How to cope with a big disappointment or personal failure?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/090622-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" data-id=\"19978\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/090622-1.jpg\" alt=\"How to cope with a big disappointment or personal failure?\" class=\"wp-image-19978\"\/><\/a><figcaption>How to cope with a big disappointment or personal failure?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, that&#8217;s a heavy one. Well as a wall I haven&#8217;t really had to deal with that yet, but one of my helpers said that a social worker he worked with gave him this advice on dealing with potentially troubling events: you may be having some intrusive and potentially illogical thoughts; I would recommend taking time to be frustrated with your mistake. We often live in a rather fast paced world and the fear that we might be left behind doesn&#8217;t give us enough time to think about mistakes\/perceived mistakes. Take a good cry if you have to. Then work on recording, rationalizing, and replacing negative thoughts with more logical, potentially more positive thoughts. Try this video on the topic: bit.ly\/automatic-thoughts. Also it might help to talk to someone about it&#8211;a family member or maybe a friend. If this is really troubling you, BC Counseling Services is a good option: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BC-counseling\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/BC-counseling<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/aw09122022-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/aw09122022-8.jpg\" alt=\"Thank you Wall \u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\" class=\"wp-image-20046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/aw09122022-8.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/aw09122022-8-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Thank you Wall \u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re welcome! \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, that&#8217;s a heavy one. Well as a wall I haven&#8217;t really had to deal with that yet, but one of my helpers said that a social worker he worked with gave him this advice on dealing with potentially troubling events: you may be having some intrusive and potentially illogical thoughts; I would recommend taking &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/09\/06\/how-to-cope-with-a-big-disappointment-or-personal-failure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to cope with a big disappointment or personal failure?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19979"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20048,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19979\/revisions\/20048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}