[ABC1357]

What do you have on your safety plan? How do you keep yourself safe from yourself (we can be our worst enemy, you know)? How do you cope with your thought?

I have calling or texting suicide prevention, breathing, and meditation on my list. Any other idea I can add on my plan?

[MobiusPsyche]

My plan amounts to distracting myself until the urge passes. Watching television, taking a bath, having a cup of tea or cocoa, lighting a candle, petting my cat.

[MommaD]

remembering my happiest memories (even if it's only 1)
Moving (usually walking outside)
Petting my cat or my golden retriever
Thinking about the people who might miss me if I was gone
Posting here on psych central
Chocolate
Music (I have a play list that starts with my most depressing music and gradually moves me into happier tunes until I get to music that's uplifting)
Mindfulness meditation (we are not our thoughts)
Emotional freedom (tapping)
At the very worst, I tell myself that I need to wait 3 days and if I still feel the same, I can revisit my decision. I actually make a contract with myself
Call someone in real life. I don't even need to tell them what I'm thinking of--just that I was thinking of them and wanted to hear their voice
I think about what I want the people I care for to say about me when I'm gone. If they can't say that about me yet, then I can't go yet

Don't know if any of this will resonate with you but thought I'd offer them up.
Sending thoughts of healing and peace your way

[MtnTime2896]

Honestly, nothing's ever really worked real well. I'm mean, writing helps for a bit but after a while I just stare at the page or screen. Listening to music helps, too but I also find that it can't fight off the demons in my head.

The only thing that keeps me from doing something, every time, is staring down at my ring. I twist it, I kiss it and I think about my fiance. When I do this, I remember who I'm still breathing for. "Dying for someone's easy. Living for them...not so much. That's how you know you love them. You keep breathing."