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Coping 101 - a masterpost of down to earth resources
This post doesn’t contain links to many professional resources - it’s a list of coping tips from people who are mentally ill/disabled themselves and who all decided to share what has worked for them here on tumblr. In the last 7 months I have been sharing content created for and by mentally ill/disabled people on this blog - and to celebrate reaching 5000 followers, I have decided to collect all the best coping tips I’ve come across in one easily accessible place. Enjoy!
Managing emotions:
- Letting go of emotional suffering via mindfulness.
- DBT strengthening statements
- Handling negative emotions
- The “emotions are signals” method
- The “mindfully recognizing emotions” method
- Healthy perspectives on emotions
- The “emotions are like hiccups” method
- The “healthy outlets” method
Managing anxiety:
- Coping statements for anxiety.
- Breathing exercise gif
- Breathing exercise gif 2
- Things to remember when having an anxiety attack
- The “just show up” method
- The “panicky friend” method
- Grounding techniques
- The “I can survive the next 10 seconds” method
- The “distract your brain” method
- The “you will be able to cope” method
Managing depression:
- 7 depression tips and why they work
- Depression tips
- 21 tips to keeping your shit together when you’re depressed
Managing executive dysfunction:
- The “might as well” method.
- The “one step access” method.
- Why self-discipline isn’t always the answer.
- The “use whatever works” method.
- The “taking care of someone else” method.
- The “june-bugging” method.
- Tricks for pushing through executive dysfunction
- The “do several things at once” method
- The “accept your limits” methods
- The “turn it into a game” method
- The “anything worth doing is worth doing poorly” method
- The “tricking your brain” method
- The “untangling the spaghetti” method.
- The “smaller steps” method
- The “emergency cleaning” method
- The “letting go of should” method.
- The “my body is an animal I need to care about” method
- The “fork theory” method
- The “remove the barriers” method
- The “half-ass things” method
Managing negative thinking:
- Challenging cognitive distortions.
- Finding alternative thoughts.
- Challenging negative thoughts
- How to get over past mistakes
- Toxic positivity vs hope and validation
- How to improve your self-esteem
- Negative and positive cognitions
- The “self neutrality” method
- The “separate your negative qualities from your identity” method
- Self talk to help end obsessions
- Ten forms of twisted thinking + ten ways to untwist your thinking
Managing self care:
- How to practice balanced self care.
- Why hands-on hobbies are important
- Ways to self-soothe
- A list of mental illness workbooks
- Ways to start feeling again
- How to get back on track after a breakdown
- How to self-soothe and treat yourself
- Types of healthy coping skills
- The “parenting yourself” method
- An interactive self care guide
- The “don’t ignore your needs” method
- Online self care
- Making the most of therapy
- Free worksheets for people who can’t access therapy
- The “add good things to your life” method
- Showering for spoonies
- The “do what you can” method
- The “it isn’t a waste of time just because it won’t cure you” method.
- Self care cheat sheet
- The “create something” method
Managing school:
- Studying with anxiety and depression
- Studying with mental illness
- Coping with dissociation in school
- Managing exam periods when you’re mentally ill
- The “done is better than none” method
- How to survive college
Managing urges to harm yourself:
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