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Everyone is different, but it never hurts to check in with yourself about your drinking — especially if you're prone to depression. “When you’re feeling depressed and you drink, that’s when it becomes dangerous, because the protective walls come tumbling down,” Jan Collins-Eaglin, PhD, told BuzzFeed Health. “Drinking is not going to make it better. If anything, it’s going to make it worse.”
If that sounds like you, maybe cut back for a bit and see if you see an improvement in how you're feeling, or maybe commit to only drinking in certain settings, like on Wine Wednesday with your best friend.
If you have stuff in your closet or in your home that make you feel worse when you see them — like clothes that you plan on fitting into again "one day" or mementos of an old relationship — TOSS THEM. You don't need that shit bringing you down in 2017.
It won't happen overnight, but if there is something in your life that's like a BIG DARK CLOUD ruining every other aspect of your life, it's a worthy 2017 goal to make a change. Take stock of whether there are any big things in your life that are really getting you down and start making a structured plan to change them.
Expressing gratitude is one of the easiest ways to improve your mental health day-to-day, so get on it. Bonus points if it's handwritten.
Because better relationships = happier you. Here's a big list of little ways to be a better friend.
Pampering yourself = great self care. Also, I bet you $10 you're holding a lot of tension somewhere right now and you deserve to get it worked out.
Don't squash them down. Don't force yourself to think positive. Acknowledge your negative emotions as valid. Not only do you you just owe it to yourself, but always distracting yourself from your emotions prevents you from learning how to cope with them, leaving you more vulnerable to getting derailed by them in the future.