How to get through it

[Into The Light]

how do you cope with pain (feelings)?

what can you do to deal with it, to get through it?

 

[Daniel E.]

Re: how to get through it

I often escape into a movie.

 

[Cat Dancer]

Re: how to get through it

This post might help. It deals with self injury, but you could substitue pain for self injury.

Self-Injury Crisis Survival Skills - What to do with SI urges - Psychlinks Psychology Self-Help & Mental Health Support Forum

 

[Halo]

Re: how to get through it

These are a few things that I do/try:

• Journalling (free-flow style to let anything and everything out)
  
• Reading (distraction....a good comedy, not something too deep)
  
• Watching tv (distraction, again nothing too deep)
  
• Wrapping in a blanket with a cup of tea with a magazine (distraction, feeling safe, comforted)
  
• Playing computer games/surfing for new screensavers/desktop themes (distraction)
  
• When all else fails, sleep...it is the safest thing.

Those are my usual ones that I try and normally something of the above seems to work and pass enough time before finally heading to bed.

Take care
:hug: :hug:

 

[moonriver]

Re: how to get through it

This is such a tough one, I wish I could figure it out and where and why it comes, why won't it leave me alone. Lately I just try to ask myself in a positive kind way what I can do about it, what steps can I take however tiny to try and make myself feel better. Usually I do find being with other people makes it seem less intense, it is still there but it doesn't have the same impact on me as when I am alone.

 

[Emotions_Blocked]

Re: how to get through it

i try to "mentally kill" what is causing the pain.
with time it gets easier.

 

[Persephone]

I try to "hear" the pain. To feel it as deeply as I can. To embrace it somehow. When I reach the point of accepting it deeply, then it usually goes away.

 

[suewatters1]

I get through it one second at a time. I cry a lot, gamble, or take a beer and my meds at the same time.
I don't get though it very well and right now I taking things 1 second at a time and that sometimes is to much. I wish I could sleep for a year and wake up a year later and see how things are.
I am barely getting through it right now.

Sue