If you've ever been the victim of a terrible heartbreak, you know what it feels like to have your heart ripped into a million pieces and then be placed back into your body. When experiencing these emotions you may feel like the world is turning in on you and coming to an end. But in reality, there are some tips and tricks that will help guide you to the road to recovery. While it is not easy, it is definitely possible, and the faster you make the initiative to drag yourself out of that sad, confused, regretful mental state, the quicker you will find happiness again.

Get that one last heavy cry out, and start taking the necessary steps to feeling good again! By truthfully practicing these five tips, you will have a better chance of putting the pieces to your heart back together before time gets ahead of you.

First tip: Be Yourself!

When in a serious relationship, we often have a tendency to become so wrapped up in the other person and their interests, hobbies, styles, you name it. We fixate and devote ourselves to our significant other and do not consider ourselves as much as we necessarily should. Instead, it is easy to morph your personality and develop insincere interests and passions that your boyfriend or girlfriend has.

When the breakup occurs, it is nonetheless shocking to realize that you've been living in someone else's shoes for far too long. Now that you are given the chance to shift your attention primarily to yourself, start doing what YOU want to do. Listening to your own heart can lead to incredible discoveries. Take the opportunity and look deeper into your self to discover an unfound interest, passion, or hobby that you may have been blind to recognize its existence before.

Second tip: Throw away the physical memories

One of the biggest struggles when going through a breakup is obsessing over the memories you shared with that person. While you will be reminded of the good times you shared every now and then, you can do yourself a favor and stow away everything he or she gave you throughout the relationship. Whether that be a sweatshirt, jewelry, your favorite pair of shoes, or simply just photos of the two of you, keeping these physical memories nearby is dangerous.

You will feel more inclined to dwell on your relationship the longer you decide to keep these items nearby. Sure, these little gestures may show the light in your relationship, but they can often distract you from the greater reasoning behind why your heart was broken in the first place. Do yourself a favor and make the process as easy on yourself as possible. After all, it is not an easy task to overcome!

Third tip: Please don't...

This may just be the most important tip of all. When you think you are done going into your daily panic attacks, calm yourself. Please don't listen to sad songs on repeat all day to intentionally make yourself hysterically cry. Please start to surround yourself with friends and family that know how to bring out the best in you, even in the darkest of days.

Also, while we're at it with things you should not do, PLEASE for the love of god, do not keep them on your social media. This change may just be the most challenging. Social media is like a disease. The longer you let it control you, the deadlier it can get.

Find the strength within yourself to refrain from clicking their name in the recently searched for your Instagram account and stalking their profile from top to bottom twenty times a day. If it is the only thing that will make you less obsessive about their life and what they are doing, block them on everything.

There is no benefit of seeing your ex out and about, meeting new people and looking overly content with their life. So, just don't do it. Don't look and obsess over things that are no longer under your control.

Not for nothing, but saying you have moved on and truly mean it, is by far one of the greatest feelings ever.

When you feel as though you have finally crossed the bridge of heartbreak, more times than not you will open your eyes to the reasons why you experienced such horrible pain. That relationship would never have worked out. And who would've known, sometimes the best thing that can happen to you is a heartbreak.

With the right mindset and focus after something so detrimental, new doors will open and the light through the open cracks will finally be visible.