Coping with The Saints Loss- helpful tips

If he were still alive, Renowned Psychologist and one of the founding fathers of cognitive behavioral therapy, founding father of Rational Emotive Therapy, Dr. Albert Ellis might suggest the following to cope with this Saints loss, especially if you label it as catastrophic

If your self talk is “The Saints suck”, ask yourself where is the evidence?. There is no evidence that the Saints suck this year. Is there evidence of the falseness of this belief that the Saints suck? Of course there is

Change the self-talk of “This is an awful awful loss” to something like “Sure, the loss was frustrating, even very frustrating. Crap happens”. Remind yourself that there is no reason why things must be the way you want them to be no matter how bad things appear now. Unfortunate events happen in this world, that’s just the way it is.

“The Saints should have won this game” . He would say stay away from the “shoulds”, as would Jim Mora. . Remind yourself that no team can be outstanding in every game, much less every play. Certainly no team will win the vast majority of playoff games, except maybe for the patriots.

When things are not to your liking, and you can’t change them you can tell yourself “I wish they were different dammit. But it’s not the end of the world and it won’t kill me or really even hurt me even if I have to put up with this the entire off-season “

Finally, he would argue that you have a choice to wallow in your misery if you want. He would also Say you have a choice to not feel nearly as bad. Your choice.