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I BEG TO DIFFER !!!!!


so small....dammit

anxious
stressed
upset
tired
excited
irritated

...because I did not acted on urges when things started feeling unmanagable.

thank you so much SE , this is very helpful

tablet ? like meds> ? ooo- what kind ?

Do you have dysthymia - because that makes it somewhat harder .... I am on Trazodone (a serotonin antagonist reuptake inhibitor) --it's been working for me on some levels, keeps things nice n stable, helps with anxiety too and I sleep sooo well on it :) ...and no bad side effects. I don't like ssri'...

You said you were angry with your gf. I know that sometimes my emotions get quite 'muddled' for lack of a better word and that most of the time when I think I am feeling angry - yes on the surface I am feeling angry - , but underneath that anger is usually a lot of hurt feelings and sometimes all it...

hi kat - I'd read that scarily long list of coping mechanisms - it's definately one of the best resourses here on bus. I think it's stickied in the coping section, or otherwise you can find it in the sourcebook.

at first they took me quite a while too, but I am rather nifty on paint now

I colored it on the computer...didn't do the outline if that's what you mean though - just got a template from a website. It took me about half an hour; I am not very patient either, but when I am stressed I need something to focus all my enegry on

...and another one....

Ice crystal - funnily enough I first came accross them when I was IP too I did one in pastels the first day I was there .

Spidey , Is this what you are talking about ?



...I had a really big one (A2 size) of a geisha

Something which I like to do as a distration when I feel triggered or when I am stressed out is to colour mandalas. They are nicer to colour by hand, but today my printer wasn't working so I used good old paint to do this one (below) ...it took ages (zooming in and colouring pixel by pixel) and I wa...

- Photography

- take up yoga / fun dance clases at your local gym

- hiking

Is there anything during the year which you wanted to do , but didn't have enough time to do ? Like pursue a hobby whihch you think you might enjoy

not today ...but a week or so back - I got into a 'pretend fight' with a friend of mine in a really long line for the restroom at starbucks- she kept saying I was racist because I wouldn't let her use the toilet first. - It was kind of embarrassing because nobody knew that we already knew eachother ...

....I really like this poem - it just speaks to me It is better to be together (Ruth Miller) It is better to be Together. Tossed together In a white wave, than to see The ocean like an eagle It is better to lie In the stormy seething Than to judge the weather In an eagle's eye Cold is the bird Who f...

Before: Before You Self-Harm write down the shadow that's hiding behind the urge. look at it. ask yourself: how will this situation or feeling change if i hurt myself? I will feel in control, things will feel less overwhelming and more managable what will hurting myself bring to the situation? what ...

Too much clean time at stake - thoughts of the guilt afterwards made it worthwhile no to act on the urges