Your top 3 coping skills ?

Whats the top 3 coping skills that you use when you hit a wall of either up down or in the middle??????

Mine are....

1. Mindfulness.
2. Meditation
3. Leaning on my best friends from here.

Yours?

1. Talking with my sister.
2. Getting tips from my therapist.
3. current tip implemented - keep a list of everything I buy on the frig (not household needs like groceries, but those pesty manic purchases)

1. Ranting in my journal, or on here, or to a friend/my boyfriend.
2. Listening to music or watching movies.
3. Knowing that this will always pass -- one episode always leads to normality or a shift. Nothing lasts forever.

1. Reading books
2. Playing games
3. Stubbornness

1. Distraction
2. Mindfulness
3. Writing my thoughts - either on here, to my chat mates or in my journal.

1. Exercising
2. Meditation and/or baths. Same result.
3. Getting outside in the sunlight

1- Mindfulness
2- Running
3- Healthy meals

1. Music - Sometimes I put on my earphones and sing at the top of my lungs for hours. This helps to distract from looping / racing thoughts, helps to tire me out, and also helps expel the emotions that have built up.

2. Mindfulness, this includes journalling, instead of going off at someone, I do my best to take a step back and spew venom into my journal.

3. Sleep. I force myself to sleep off the shyttiness, also its an escape from the emotions and mental turmoil.

Ps. 2 more because I'm chatty

4. Bubble baths, I mainly use it for distraction (I drag it out) and skin crawling anxiety. Vigourous scrubbing feels like a physical relief from the skin crawling.

5. Series marathons are great distraction too, but I haven't been doing much of that lately.

I'm not sure I'm coping great right now but..

1. Keeping self talk in check - mindfulness.
2. Self nurturing , allowing myself to rest (too much maybe lately).
3. Hugs from my kids & caring for my pets.

1. Journaling
2. Exercising
3. Using Relaxation Techniques

I did start journaling yesterday! Made half a page about how much I hated it but would try it, and how can I be honest on paper when someone might find it, that it's an invasion of my privacy, that I'm going to tear up every page as usual...poor journal lol. Hopefully I will get better at it.

1. Self Talk: I evaluate the situation from a panel of people I created to take on pros and cons. Sort of like a war room. I analyze the situation from my advisers gather the pros and cons and make tough choices. (not always the best)

2. Pray (not always the best because some times I hear voices answering my prayers!)

3. Remind myself this will pass and read my journal now!

Also, if I'm able to cuz why limit to only 3 right?

4. Try to jog or work out
5. Distract in some way, read, watch movies, etc.
6. Come to my forums.

The worst thing I can do is listen to music as they will usually make me delusional or self medicate which will make me darn right bat crazy.

My journaling has improved over time, it used to not make a lot of sense but now I do find it really helps. Problem being my hand gets sore! So it might be time for me to set one up on my laptop. The journal is good cos I can take it everywhere though.

I drink....a lot
I find the awkward spaces inside me and I hurt them...

I hurt myself better

I remind myself how beautiful the day was and might be

My spirituality... need something to cling to

music... many styles and flavours.

travelling. That memories will always be mine and cities and places to be seen keep me going. Can't die before seeing Tel Aviv, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Japan or riding the transsiberian rail....

1. Deep breathing ( 1st tattoo last mixed episode)

2. Music

3. 'Play' fighting with husband or dog (agitated)
Journaling to T (any other mood)

If all else fails asking for advice here.

Time (i.e. this too shall pass)
Music/Sewing
Work

1. Pray
2. Sunlight
3. Change environment

Great responses everyone !

Thank you

1. Sleep
2. Distraction (Watching Dvds / TV)
3. Talking to my husband / my mother

It seems that mindfulness is a very helpful coping mechanism for many. How does it work exactly?

Mindfulness
Reading
Listening to my t voicemail

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Solitude
Music
Wine
God....He should have been first but I'm too tired to retype that

Mindfulness is basically living right in the moment ... Thats how it works for me .. no worries about 30 mins from now or an hour or a week ,, Its like self ground. It's hard to flip out when all your focused on is breathing and just being in the moment...

Hope that make sense , I am often known to ramble a bit

Makes sense, yup. One thing that really clicked the concept for me was hearing it said that worry is almost all future and past oriented. What was, what will be. So in light of this, I started paying attention to the jibber-jabber in my head, and it was true! Here and now is the only place you actually ARE. So then you make a point of noticing things. A nice scent, how good the water feels in the shower, a squirrel running up a tree... like that. Sometimes I will just completely zone in on, say, a leaf. Colors, shadows and light, how it moves in the breeze. That's it.

Top 3? Distraction, distraction and distraction. Haha, not really, but it's a real go-to.
Breathing.
Not sure. Rather distracted today.

OH! WAIT! It just hit after posting....

HUMOR.