Thanks for your response. No wonder you don't find hotlines to be what you need.

The DBT website mentioned above is good but is a lot for me to take in at once. Just to boil it down a bit, the idea is to find ways to distract in order to tolerate the distress. Some may work for you. They include:

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--do something else (have a few ideas chosen in advance)

--help out with something or someone

--think about others less fortunate

--try to create different/opposite emotions (e.g. watch movies)

--let or push the current situation out of your mind

--distracting thoughts such as counting, puzzles

--distracting or soothing sensations, in all five senses if possible

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They give a lot of details about these on that webpage.

Maybe consider the alternate rebellion page as well?:

http://www.dbtselfhelp.com/html/alte...rebellion.html