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1. Elmers glue on hands let dry peel off.
2. Find things that you can feel like textures etc. Then focuse on how each feels different in comparrision to the last.
3. Color. I do this and draw and have found it very relaxing.
4. Start the day out with a gratutity list
5. before you go to sleep remember the things that happened during that day that you can give thanks for. Even if its small like. I drank a glass of water yay me!
These things I have found very helpful recently so I wanted to share. I am trying a new skill a day to find ones that will work the best for myself. That being said.. if anyone has a suggestion or wants to share theirs that would be amazing.
Hope your all having a fantastic afternoon.
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I haven't written in my diary on my computer since May because I thought that my computer was dying. I got away from writing but my computer is hanging in there. I think that I will start writing in it again. It's so therapeutic.
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Today (August 8) is INternational Cat Day. Don't click away! International DOG day is August 26! Both were created to raise aweareness and funds for the well-being of critters. We have many such dayts, to the pint that every day is like an old Catholic saints' day calendar: Take your pick!I'm home, obvs, and still ill. Left calf and foot not great after a tangle-fall, but i'll live. Just can't...
i get on a roll with starting my day with something i'm grateful for, but it is so easy to get distracted or forget - what a difference it makes.
thank you so much, i will start again : ) and colouring too : ) it makes me relax too. hugs xo
i shall have to try the glue!
when i am dissociating or having S/H urges i hold an ice cube in a cloth and really concentrate on the sensation...
https://idaily-diary.en.softonic.com/
There are lots of other offline sources for diary or journal software. That's just the one I started to use.
Keeping the gratitude journal is doing what my friend here at DS PTSD said it would do. It's balancing out my PTSD hypervigiliance that is such a good radar for anything negative incoming vs. positive things to be grateful for that I should learn to be "hypervigilant" about, too.
It's a slow process that takes daily discipline for me, but it's working. I'm grateful for getting the suggestion from my friend here at DS PTSD.
Learn something new everyday~
Here's some of mine:
- tiger balm. The smell helps me get out of dissociation.
- take some time to be proud of myself whenever I've achieved something (whatever that is. Didn't eat cookies even though I wanted to? Good!)
- visualizing a safe and beautiful place when I get anxious
I want to try out the texture thing.