Skills Group Community Group
This group is for those who wish to recover or improve their life, coping abilities, distress tolerance or emotions. Each month I will select a topic, and information will be provide on that topic with activities to work through designed to engage you or aid in your recovery. The point will be to try the exercises and then we can discuss what works and what does not work...
When life challenges you and you are down, giving up, do not want to get up to fight again, triggered, etc., there is help. It is time for opposite and it will help you feel better, accomplish more and beat back symptoms of PTSD, Depression and Anxiety. This is a go to for me.
Example: I do not feel like getting out of bed. I start telling myself that I must do the opposite action that, it is my illness that is telling me to stay in bed. I need to get up and show my illness it cannot control me.
Example: I do not want to go shopping because I hate crowds and I get triggered. I take a number of deep breaths, and say to myself over and over "opposite action, opposite action. I can do this, I got this, I will be ok. I need to go shopping and I will feel so much better when I go and come home." I also visualize myself shopping with the crowd of people and me being ok
It took me a long while to master this. I also rewarded myself for trying or having success with opposite action. It helps to having a notes around the house for reminders.
Example: I do not feel like getting out of bed. I start telling myself that I must do the opposite action that, it is my illness that is telling me to stay in bed. I need to get up and show my illness it cannot control me.
Example: I do not want to go shopping because I hate crowds and I get triggered. I take a number of deep breaths, and say to myself over and over "opposite action, opposite action. I can do this, I got this, I will be ok. I need to go shopping and I will feel so much better when I go and come home." I also visualize myself shopping with the crowd of people and me being ok
It took me a long while to master this. I also rewarded myself for trying or having success with opposite action. It helps to having a notes around the house for reminders.
It's very exhausting to push through even once, and I have had high levels of anxiety with accompanying physical responses, but I keep telling myself "I feel like I can't, but I know I can," until I think I wear myself out into just doing things....
Not the best way to do tihs, but a medical emergency with my mother has taken me from "cautious forward motion" to "full immersion in PTSD he**", and I lke the idea of rewards (Hubby helps) but I will start leaving myself *notes*.
Thanks:-)