Scarily VAST list of coping strategies

[angelafree]

that could keep you safe for years...:O

[flower79]

I noticed this is an old thread but WOW that's an amazing list of things to try.

i'm going to share this with a friend of mine who struggled with her SI and i'm going to try the H.A.L.T as it can affect me.

[StarChild]

I really love the systems of rewards/collecting things. I sort of collect Asian ball-jointed dolls (haven't been able to afford a new one for ages, but I could save up) and I want to save for one for my one-year anniversary, when I can stay off SI that long. I already have the one I want picked out, a LUTS Kid Delf Bory boy. I might get the white skin version and make him a little ghost boy or some kind of supernatural creature.

For anyone else interested in BJDs or other dolls...it can take a year or more to save up (some of the big fancy ones can cost as much as $700!), but for me, it's a great motivator. Because I can always go to the site and look at pictures of my boy He's only $300 (haha, only in the BJD hobby would one say "only $300!") so I could easily save up enough money for him by the end of a year.

I'm so excited. Now I really want to stop, so I can get my boy!

loki

[moon raver]

dayum!!!
that's great!!!
i'll pull it up in word and print it at the library.

[noldo]

I know this thread is really really old but I still love the list and really need to try more skills of this list again. I think it's better than any Coping Strategies Lists I got in the psych wards over the years. I translated it into German (also a skill of its own ) and gave it to some therapists and nurses over the years who found it helpful. I always have it ready on the laptop and printed out at home and I also have a smaller list with some of the skills of this list which I picked out to try and which I found useful. As I'm re-vamping my emergency box I thought it's a good idea to revisit this thread.

I don't really know if this skill already exists but there are gummy bears (or some other shape) with chili in it. I am pretty sensible to spicy stuff so it really has an effect on me, esp. when I eat several ones quickly, one after the other. The burning passes relatively quickly but when you eat several ones over the time of 10 minutes or so, it takes a while till the sensation passes. When I need some stronger spicy, burning stuff I chew 3-5 whole peppercorns at once. That burning sensation really stays for a while and it is much stronger.

RIP Laura. Thank you for creating this list.

And thanks to everyone contributing to it. If you come across this nowadays and you have a skill that isn't on here yet, please share it with us here (if you feel comfortable enough).

noldo

[s0_vErY_sCaReD]

Read the whole list (and all seven pages of replies). One that stuck out to me was the safe place imagery. That’s one the DBT therapist at the program I go to does a lot.

Mine is at the fireside at summer camp in the mountains from when I was a teenager (many many moons ago).
Its kind of ironic that’s my safe place, as that was actually where I had my first major panic attack. Strange. Anyway. That’s my two cents.

[childofchaos831]

Our safe place is a dock over the lake, listening to the lake and the birds. Everything else is quiet. No one is around, just us.