[Curupira]

I am starting to spiral and I have a feeling this is going to be a bad one. Hubby asked if I needed to go to the ER. I am holding on for now and have no intention of harming myself. I just feel this suffocating oppresive blackness rolling in.

My question is. Have you ever been able to pull yourself out of a spiral or do you just have to ride it out? What techniques do you use? Any advice would be greatly appreciated

[smmath]

I like to let myself feel the feelings until I am so tired I want to sleep. Can you talk things out with your husband? He seems to care about you. You could try some meditation or distracting techniques if you don't want to feel things right now.

[Rohag]

Immediate techniques I try to employ:

• Take an extra dose of my antianxiety meds - I have a green light from my pdoc to do this.
• Engage in slow diaphragmatic breathing whenever necessary.
• Toss out whatever schedule I have and avoid all stressors.

Wishing you success in at least halting the spiral, Curupira.

[Curupira]

Thank you guys so much. It's weird, just getting feedback makes me feel less hopeless. I will definitely try the deep breathing reduce my workload.

My husband is wonderful smmath but he is also currently studying for a midterm and I am trying to avoid putting extra stress on him. We'll probably talk after his test tomorrow.

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[recentdiscovery]

Your thread actually prompted me to join the forum, so thank you.

I'm just coming out the back end of a TERRIBLE spiral. I am just recently diagnosed and on meds and can actually have feelings again after many years... spent much of the day on the edge of crying or actually crying, feeling very hopeless and alone, and missing my family and wife very much (recently separated). I actually had a few moments of suicidal thoughts, no action, but that's kind of a new one for me.

The only thing that pulled me out of it was typing up all my feelings, why i'm having them, and really exploring it. Looking at it in words helped me rationalize and point out flaws in my thinking and identify distortions. My episode was trigger related and may be different than yours but just thought i'd share what I did with it today.

I feel much better at this second. I may actually sleep tonight.

I have found that the only way to ride it out is to sleep

Yeah, normally I just stop whatever I have planned for the day and take a long break. Treat myself to something nice. Make myself a yummy dinner and go to bed early and hope that refreshes me for the next day.

Best of luck!

[Stronger]

I feel for you my friend, know what that's like.
Don't let yourself be alone. You probably feel like that's all you want, is to be alone, but the thoughts always get worse when you're alone.
That's so sweet that your husband cares for you like that! I hope that his midterm went well today and that you were able to talk.
Sometimes just being with people isn't enough. Be nice to yourself, eat your comfort food, watch a funny video (I like to look up funny cat videos on youtube), skype a friend, read a funny book. But whatever you do...do. not. ruminate. Depression often makes you look for the bad in every situation and add up every reason possible as to why life sucks. Don't listen. Be strong! It will end!! It will end!! There is another side that does not look like this.
You can do this my dear You can do this.
Write that on your hand.

[Curupira]

Thank you. You guys are so sweet I actually started crying. I am so grateful I found this commmunity and you amazing people. You have no idea how much you help me just to get through the day.

[Fuzzybear]