How I'm coping today:
1. Using these forums.
2. Emailing my T (which I don't think I've done yet today, but I plan to; she doesn't respond, but she will read them and get back to me at our next session).
3. Internal family systems coping for my DID/dissociation.
4. Grounding techniques to feel safe, present.
5. Social support via texting, emails, and this online group.
6. Reading affirming news that helps keep me safe, protected, informed.
7. Finding distractions such as house chores, reruns of "Good Witch", updating my spreadsheets, cleaning out my emails, playing games here and through the NYT's app.
8. Searching for a new bird that begins with "U" and then responding to one of the threads here. That involves learning something new, which helps my brain cope with brain fog.
9. Relaxing intermittently, to help me cope with mobility problems, CFS/ME, autoimmune responses, anxiety, depression, thyroid issues, prediabetes.
10. Doing exercise and fun snacks to help break up the monotony and loneliness of my days, and to give me ways to burn some calories and work towards healing my overall body.
11. Stating positive affirmations to myself to help build my self-confidence, self-esteem, and efficacy.
12. Doing small tasks and accomplishing them, so as to help me to build mastery, and then efficacy and confidence and esteem.
13. Balancing my true emotional expressions with pacing and containing coping, and imagining a safe box to put our worries in (or a safe email to express them to our therapist), until we speak with our therapist next.
14. Helping others internally and externally, and allowing others internally and externally to help me, in order to feel a sense of empathy, to receive empathy, to feel connected, to feel belonged, to feel less lonely, to feel part of community, to feel less rejection, to feel less abandonment.