With Valentine’s Day looming, you may be dreading everything about it and struggling with ‘Valentine’s Day depression’.
The perfect pictures of couples in love dominating your timelines on social media, your colleagues discussing their plans to celebrate valentines with their partners in the office and the endless chocolates, flowers and all things ‘love’ at the supermarket when you are just trying to do your food shop!
Ew, everything is so in our faces now that we can’t seem to escape it!
Sadly, Valentine’s Day isn’t all heart and flowers for everyone, and you may find yourself struggling to manage the day.
Perhaps you have recently been single and have been through a really hard breakup, or perhaps you have been single for a while but really want a partner.
Whatever your situation for feeling depressed, remember ‘this too shall pass’ and there are plenty of things you can do to lift to your spirits!
1. Spend time with loved ones
If you are having a difficult time and have been dreading Valentine’s Day coming up, then it’s best to spend it with people you love and, more importantly, people who will make you feel good!
2. Spend time by yourself
Alone time doesn’t get the reputation it deserves. The ability to be alone can be truly rewarding, especially if you have just been through a breakup. You may want to use the time to reflect, reconnect with yourself and discover what you want!
3. Treat yourself to something nice
We all deserve to be treated now and again, and no, you do not have to wait for someone else to treat you; you can treat yourself.
It will make you feel good and will definitely cheer you up if you are struggling with Valentine’s Day depression.
4. Stay off social media
It would be wise to use this day to stay off social media to avoid any negative emotions. Social media could be triggering for you around Valentine’s Day as you are likely to see everyone declaring their love to their other halves and showing off their gifts!
5.Take some time for self care
If you are struggling with Valentine’s Day depression, then there is no better way to indulge in some self-care. Self-care can be any healthy practice that helps you manage, maintain and improve your health and well-being.
Take a long hot soak in the bath, read your favourite book, or meditate, whatever makes you feel good is a win!
6. Keep yourself busy
Sometimes, we need a distraction to take our focus away from Valentine’s Day depression and the negative emotions we may be experiencing.
If you keep yourself busy enough, you may even forget it is Valentine’s Day. Whilst a distraction may not be good in the long term, it can certainly get you through the day!
7. Avoid participating in unhealthy behaviours
Valentine’s Day depression may drive you to participate in unhealthy behaviours, and whilst it may make you feel god in the moment it won’t do you any favours in the long run and will end up making you feel worse.
8. ‘Have a ‘Galentine’s day’
Galantine’s is usually practiced by women on Feb 13th to celebrate their friendship and sisterhood, however many single women celebrate with their friends on 14th and there is no better way to enjoy V day and cure your Valentine’s Day depression than being around our girls!
9. Have a date night with yourself!
Dating yourself is becoming more and more popular with single women. It’s usually regarded as a practice of self love and discovering we don’t need a partner to be happy.
Whist you may not want to go out and eat alone on V day, you can cook yourself your favourite meal accompanied by your fave tipple of choice!
10. Do some overtime at work
This could be a great way to keep you busy and distracted on a day where it may seem like everyone is celebrating their significant others!
11. Ignore the hell out of it!
Lets be real, Valentine’s day is a normal day, just like any other! It can only cause negativity for you if you let it, so go about your day as normal and don’t engage in anything ‘V day’ related and avoid any places and people that will remind you it’s Valentine’s day!
10. Speak to a Therapist!
Valentine’s day might be a good day to book a therapy session. Sometimes we need some professional help to help us through our valentine’s day depression!
11. Go on a date!
Going on a date may help with you Valentine’s day depression and of course, there could be potential for a new relationship!
12. Binge watch your favorite series
We all love a good binge and there is no better way to distract yourself from being depressed on Valentine’s Day than watching your favourite series!
13. Read blog posts
There is so much content available online, it will keep you busy and entertained for however long you need. I am obviously bias and will tell you distract yourself by reading my Blog 🙂
14. Go to the Gym
The gym will take your mind off the fact that you are single on Valentine’s Day and it’s good for improving your wellbeing!
15. Be kind to yourself
You may spent Valentine’s day beating yourself up for being single or failed relationships but if you are feeling depressed then you will likely feel
16. Practice gratitude
Being grateful for what you have will bound to make you fee better about not having a Valentine! According to Mindful Gratitude benefits our wellbeing and physical health., thus making u less depressed!
17. Listen to music
Get lost in your favourite playlist because listening to music releases dopamine – a neurotransmitter that makes you feel good!
18. Meditate
Meditation has been known to reduce, stress anxiety and depression.
19. Avoid trying to find a Valentine’s date
If you are depressed on Valentine’s day you may want to try and avoid getting a date, doing so may leave you disappointed and feeling even worse than you feel now!
20. Avoid comparing yourself to others
Comparing yourself to others will only make you feel unworthy and worse than you already do. Remember everyone’s path is different and all may not mean what it seems!
21. Practice scripting
Scripting is a Law of Attraction practice, whereby you write down what you want your life to look like in the present tense (as if you already have it) in as much detail as you can. If you are struggling with V day depression then you may want to set the scene for how you are spending your valentine’s. You can find a great example of scripting here.
22. Make a list of everything you want in a partner
No better time to sit and reflect about what you want in a partner when going through Valentine’s day depression. It will help you gain clarity on what you want and is also the starting point for manifesting it into reality.
23. Do an act of self love
This could be buying yourself flowers, treating yourself treating yourself to your or getting an early night. An act of self-love can be anything that shows ourselves compassion and kindness.
24. Participate in a random act of kindness
Making someone else feel good can make you feel good too so better reason to brighten up someone’s day!
25. Buy yourself flowers
No better way to brighten up your day with a beautiful bunch of your favourite flowers. You don’t need no one else to buy them for you!
