Psychology Today

We no longer trust anything that politicians say. It is their actions that count. So what can we learn about Hillary Clinton’s character from her actions?

Chances are the more tumultuous the relationship was while you were in it, the more tumultuous your response in the aftermath of breakup will be.

It can feel like the only way you will get through the next minute is to hear your ex’s voice: Like they are the anchor that brings you back to who you understand yourself to be.

When you and your partner misinterpret each other’s expressions of excitement or intensity, it can evoke frustration. Then what started out as emphasis can escalate into anger.

Infinitely Polar Bear is the story of how love can provide the incentive to get better. Mark Ruffalo’s performance is gritty, believable and most certainly Oscar-Worthy.

After a stormy relationship, you can think you’re OK, you're feeling stable, but then you plunge right back into confusion, disgust, and fear all over again.

As you begin to accept that reconciliation it is not an option, you shift from the hope that the relationship can be saved, to the possibility that you just might be ok without it.

For now, know that it’s okay if the moments of clarity and the realization that you’ll be okay are submerged more often than experienced.

If only you had picked him up at the airport that day; if only you didn't complain about your job so much. Why didn't you go on that camping trip? Why didn’t you tell her you loved her more often? If only you were a different person who did different things in a different way!

The need to know why can and often does come at the expense of rational and reasonable thoughts and behaviors.

“Huh? What do you mean, it’s over?” This new information overloads your brain. The concept that you have become disposable, replaceable, and irrelevant shoots through you in spasms.

The most important message in this post is not necessarily about Robin Williams; it is that you are valued when you feel valueless. You are loved when you feel unloved or unlovable; and if we had the opportunity, each of us would have tried to show Robin Williams this love and value.

Understand that the slices of your life that you look back at with mortification and disgust had a purpose and an explanation at the time.

The stages of grief that follow any trauma, breakup included, can happen in a condensed form, over the course of minutes or even seconds, days, months, years, and then switch around without warning, leaving you feeling without foundation, especially in the beginning.