Perspective isn’t pretending your problems are small. It’s remembering they’re not the only thing.

Perspective gets mistaken for dismissal, as though the aim were to talk yourself out of caring. It works the other way around. You keep the problem at full size and widen the frame around it, so it sits beside your friends, your Saturday, and the parts of your life that are currently fine.

When something fills the whole screen this week, write it down and list three other true things about your life underneath. Leave the problem exactly as big as it is. The list is only there to stop it being the only entry.