Coping strategies

Some suggestions for time of intense depression or stress

 

• Telling someone

• Letting go of "should"

• Exercising

• Getting a massage

• Fighting your brain goblins

• Allowing yourself to feel

• Wearing supportive socks

• Using apps like "Virtual Hope Box" or "Moods"

• Grounding to get present

• Going to therapy

• Cuddling with pets

• Taking medication

• Supporting those supporting you

• Learning how your brain works

• Going to a peer support group

• Spending time outside

• Practicing self care

 

• Creating your happiness jungle

• Creating a WRAP plan (Wellness Recovery Action Plan)

• Limiting social media

• Allowing yourself to not be perfect

• Finding spaces where you feel understood

• CBT/DBT workbook (Cognitive or Dialectical Behavioural Therapy

• Looking for patterns of what works and what doesn't

• Listening to a music playlist made by brains

• Playing or singing music

• Describing things that are happening right now like you're a narrator in a tv show

• Praying

• Remembering you don't have to do everything all at once

• Remembering that depression lies

 

 

Last modified: Friday, 6 December 2024, 12:08 AM