What a neat idea/thread!

I accepted most of my defenses/symptoms and put them to good use. It's just my body trying to help and it knows more what I need than my conscious self. Just adjusting some of them, like you did your pacing, does help.

I use my good imagination and think up games to help me do things I don't want to; made up a board game where I roll dice and then have to do whatever that number says on a collage I made (with numbers for each "section" to correspond to the numbers on the dice). I even put in a "free day" number, where I did not have to do anything, and a fun scavenger hunt, go-to-the-dollar-store, roll where I had to find a single item there to help me do something, bring it home and use it.

I've always liked to "play school" so have created my own courses, websites, written and read self-help workbooks, etc.