Besides stepping away from the situation, it is also crucial to stay neutral and separate opinions from facts. As someone once said to me, “Our thoughts are not necessarily the reality.” Often time, our minds play tricks on us in a negative way. We make wrong assumptions and create scenarios in our imagination that are far from the reality. We end up “working ourselves up” for nothing,
Talk to someone totally unrelated to the situation may provide you with a more objective perspective. In addition, analyzing the situation by writing it down on a piece of paper may also help.