using play-dough to cope with urges

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using play-dough to cope with urges

Post by Spidey » Mon May 08, 2006 8:48 pm

k8ty was talking about this in #bus a few minutes ago, and i thought it was a really great suggestion.

whenever you have an urge to si, go grab some play-dough. you can either mould into whatever shape that you wish to, or you can cut up the play-dough, so instead of hurting yourself, you are taking out your urge on the play-dough.
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Post by ViolinPlayingGoat » Mon May 08, 2006 10:45 pm

i like play dough and plasticine because the smell reminds me of being a kid and that makes me feel safe.
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Post by black_23 » Tue May 09, 2006 8:59 pm

Plsy dough rules its one of the things id always want, used to have a pack of plasticine when at uni really helped, but play dough smells much better and of childhood!
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Post by angelic212 » Tue May 09, 2006 10:56 pm

i use play doh to help me cope with my anxiety, when i used to si i used play doh to help me cope with the urges but it also helps to cope with anxiety , i really like play doh,

thanks for posting this, cause right now im strugggling with anxiety and im going to use play doh to help me cope with anxiety.

thanks for the reminder

yay for playdoh :star: :blush:

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Post by ~starblaze~ » Wed May 17, 2006 11:50 am

I *love* playdough and do find keeping my hands busy with something like that helps :)

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