I think I might have found a grounding method that works for me! Pain! Although not self injuring or anything like that. Just like pinching or digging my nails in but not hard enough to do any damage or break the skin or anything like that. I think it's the physical shock that you get when something stings and that snaps me back to the planet earth. Although pain is generally a bad thing, I think I could do it in a safe, non harmful manner in a therapy session and it would be very useful. The rubber band thing doesn't seem to work but I will keep trying it, you never know. I think it is the shock value that does the trick.

I found this out today when I was absolutely ropeable, and I sort of did it without thinking, and next thing I knew I wasn't fuming anymore. When I look back on my life, I realise I had been using this concept in various forms since I was 3. But I had to stop when I was about 20 ish due to various reasons (I wanted to stop it because "normal people dont do that"). Coincidentally that is when I started going mentally downhill. Coincidence? who knows.. but its interesting.

So finally something positive to tell my T next year!