Coping Strategies
Coping strategies
Some suggestions for time of intense depression or stress
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• 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
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• 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
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