This is definitely something to talk to your T about. I think it's really important to have strategies that you can use at home between T sessions. T and I worked together to figure out some things that help me. I sort of have "levels" of coping...

First level:
Stay busy
Play with the kids
Go outside
Be around friends
Play guitar hero (this got me through the first winter of therapy!)
Color
Knit

Second level
Write down what is going on - save it, or burn it, or rip it up
Do exercises to get grounded
Call a friend to talk about what is going on (my best friend knows most of what I talk about in T)
Use visualization techniques that I've learned

Third level
E-mail or call T to leave a message
Take a klonopin

Fourth level
Call T and leave a message that I need a call back
Schedule an extra appointment

(I never really thought about them in levels like this, but this is pretty much how it works!).

T and I worked together over many many months of therapy to figure out what helps me, and we are still figuring it out. I think I will print out my list and keep it somewhere because it is hard to remember what to DO when I am in a bad place!!

If I had to pick a few, guitar hero, being outside, being with friends, and writing are the ones that have helped me the most. I used to have some very unhealthy coping mechanisms but I almost never have to turn to those anymore. It's a matter of time, and learning, and trial and error...

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