Great idea Sky

I do many things to help myself daily and when my therapist is not available Though I don't allow myself to do them to shut out my or the worlds problems, very often because shutting out my problems and what was physically going on around me is why I have DID.

So instead of shutting out my problems I find a way to instead meet that problem head on and take care of it for example my head is a bit nuts tonight so I have the relaxation visualization CD that my therapist made going on my computer jukebox to help slow me down so that I can make sense of my thoughts so that I can do one or more of the following to locate my triggers instead of dissociating way from what ever has my head triggered on fast forwards -

Journal writing
read or do self help books and or workbooks such as -
The Courage To Heal Text - by Laura Davis and Ellen Bass
The courage To heal Workbook - By Laura Davis
Amongst Ourselves - Dr. Tracy Alderman and Karen Marshall
Getting Through the Day - Nancy J Napier
Recreating Yourself - Nancy J. Napier
The PTSD Workbook
Managing Stress through the Arts
Mind over Mood

Draw
paint
Make Diaramas
Make scale models
Listen to music
Watch a non triggering movie
Take a bubble bath
go for a bike ride
Email - write to friends
call my friends
Join support groups both on line and in my real life location
Join Therapy groups in my local area
Call a local crisis hot line
Put on the relaxation visualization recordings my therapist and I made during sessions
play with my cat
meet a friend for dinner at the local store
Wrap up in a comforter while I write or draw and so on
Clean my house

The list goes on....