My safety plan is rather long ...it’s really starts off when I have had say a rough 5/6 days in a row , no sleep , increased pain. It’s about hurdles.

For me it’s I must talk to certain people, but it has to be in order ( another hurdle) if I need to say call my daughter but she’s busy at work or involved in stuff and can’t talk well then I just have to wait, it could be hours or the next day until I can , ( more time to do rational thinking) then it’s time to talk to B then C... D is texting as she lives in Cape Town South Africa plus different time zones, so it’s often a wait ...also there is a step I drive to my T’s office and just sit in the car and look at the damn building, it does bring me some comfort , Ive been going there over 8 years , my T now only working 3 days a week so if I’m a mess on Thursday I gotta make it til Monday , so again more time to gather up rational thought. I absolutely refuse to call his cell, I am his only client that has his number actually..well once , I did have to call it while he was out of the office for 5 weeks due to surgery and I was in a real bad place.

The goal is to put as many hurdles in place between you and making a terrible choice.

Catastrophic thinking is something everyone needs to really pay attention too... last week I came here and made a post. Was very frantic ! But with in a little over a day I forced myself to basically turn on logic and common sense reasoning and re read my post I can’t tell you how many times.

It’s was truly just catastrophic thinking. Black and white only.

Personally right now I have to keep a close eye on that as I’m struggling with numerous health problems

So maybe write up a safety plan for yourself.. the longer the better.

Oh yeah I also have to drive to a local park. There’s a lake and lots of Ducks ,I often go there to just think and feed those greedy monsters

Hurdles !