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Default May 09, 2014 at 12:03 AM
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Default May 09, 2014 at 12:51 AM
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Hi Jasmine, you can start the new thread by selecting "new thread" from the top left hand side of the screen with all the different threads posted. You can also do a search of all subjects to find out where it best fits. I'd be interested in the discussion.

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Default Jul 06, 2014 at 05:33 PM
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Thank you for all the links some of them will help me as much that will help to be part of this Forum.
I have been in a DBT group last year, helps very much learning how to cope with my emotions. Due to a physical illness I only attended for a month. Now I can learn new skills here that hopefully will help me with my anxiety and panic attacks.

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DBT is a form of psychotherapy that was originally developed by Marsha M. Linehan, a psychology researcher at the University of Washington, to treat people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and chronically suicidal individuals. Although, research on its effectiveness in treating other conditions has been extremely limited, DBT is now used in a variety of psychological treatments including treatment for traumatic brain injuries (TBI), eating disorders, and mood disorders. Scant research indicates that DBT might have some effect on patients who present varied symptoms and behaviors associated with spectrum mood disorders, including self-injury. Recent work also suggests its effectiveness with sexual abuse survivors and chemical dependency.

DBT combines standard cognitive-behavioral techniques for emotion regulation and reality-testing with concepts of distress tolerance, acceptance, and mindful awareness largely derived from Buddhist meditative practice.
I have to say that the Group I was part of should have people with the same issues. Like anxiety and panic attacks in one DBT Group and so on .... But, the therapist knows better I guess.

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Default Jul 12, 2014 at 08:51 PM
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Thank you for posting all the links for dealing with emotions and stress, I think at times dealing with these two topics for me are the hardest thing to do, I honestly do not deal with them very well.
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Default Sep 14, 2014 at 01:46 PM
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Very helpful links. I like the second article you posted. I am aware that I am a highly sensitive person and I tend to just get overwhelmed by my emotion and have a hard time thinking logically. It's like a switch. The emotional side and then the Logical side. Yep.
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Default Nov 08, 2014 at 09:09 PM
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this is a lovely list, originally posted by 'Can't Stop Crying', which puts anxiety skills in terms of "grounding techniques". perhaps some people can use these ideas in these words better~ thanks, CSC ~!

Top 21 Anxiety Grounding Techniques | Treating Anxiety

1. Bring up today’s newspaper on the web, notice the date. Read something fun!

2. Breathe slowly and steadily from your core. Imagine letting fear and worry go, evaporating along with each breath.

3. Trace your hands against the physical outline of your body. Experience your own presence in the world.

4. Call a friend and have a chat.

5. If you are feeling ‘stuck’, change how you’re positioned. Wiggle your fingers, tap your feet. Pay attention to the movement: You are in control of what your body is doing, right here and now.

6. Eat or drink something. Is it hot, or cold? Sweet or sour?

7. Meditate, if that’s OK for you. Otherwise use distractions like television or music to help settle down.

8. Use your voice. Say your name or pick up a book and read the first paragraph you find out loud.

9. Look at yourself in the mirror. Smile, even if that’s the last thing you feel like! How does that feel? What can you see? (If negative thoughts come to mind, write them down to look at later but let them go for now. You’re anxious enough as it is.)

10. Write out what’s going on. Keep writing until you start to notice it makes a difference, lets some of the things you’re anxious about out.

11. Take a shower/bath. Notice the sensations of the water.

12. Write somebody you care about an email.

13. Imagine yourself in a familiar, comfortable place. Feel the safety. Know it.

14. Take a look outside. Count the number of trees and street signs.

15. Exercise. Jump up and down on the spot. Try some gentle yoga, or ride a bike.

16. Hold onto something comforting. Maybe a blanket or an old stuffed toy.

17. Laugh. Even if that’s hard. Just the act of laughing about something, anything can break that spinning out of control feeling.

18. When you’re not too stressed, make a list of the things that provoke your anxiety. Take it to your therapist and ask them to help you find ways to desensitize you to some of those things. Then those triggers won’t be quite so powerful, and your anxiety coping skills will work better.

19. If you get PTSD flashbacks, when you’re feeling OK, make a list of the furniture in your home and what room it’s in. Give the list to a friend you can call to help you focus on what’s now and safe.

20. List 5 really positive things in your life. Put the list where you’ll see it and remember that there’s more to the world than just panic and fear.

21. Think about the last week. Was there a day you didn’t have so much anxiety? Remember how it felt to be less anxious than you are right now. What was different? What can change?

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Default Dec 10, 2014 at 02:45 PM
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Thank you for posting these articles on Emotions! I am new here and this is going to help me alot today.

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Default Dec 17, 2014 at 02:07 AM
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My husband found this for me. It really helps with my anxiety: "Sometimes the best thing you can do is: not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess. Just breathe and have faith knowing that with Jesus everything will work out for the best." ( I added with Jesus). I refer to this often and it has helped tremendously!
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Default Jan 18, 2015 at 03:44 PM
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Thank you very much for this thread. It has already helped me and I think it will help me in the future.
I'm a hypersensitive person and I'm often overwhelmed by them. I will put into practise what I have read.
Very interesting and clarifying.
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Default Jan 21, 2015 at 06:22 PM
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Thank you so much turquoisesea for piling up all this helpful info here

One of the problems here in the Forum is that helpful links & threads gets lost in the site, & it's very helpful to pile them up like that in one sticky place

Right now, I'm mainly depressed & lonely, & it's hard for me to deal with those emotions. But some things help me, like watching movies, reading news sites, playing neopets, walking with music in my ears...

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Thank you so much turquoisesea for piling up all this helpful info here

One of the problems here in the Forum is that helpful links & threads gets lost in the site, & it's very helpful to pile them up like that in one sticky place

Right now, I'm mainly depressed & lonely, & it's hard for me to deal with those emotions. But some things help me, like watching movies, reading news sites, playing neopets, walking with music in my ears...
Very well said!
I also feel depressed like you. I usually see cómic programes or whatever that can make me laugh. It's very important to look for things that may give you an opposite feeling to the negative one.

Hope you feel better soon!
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Default Jan 22, 2015 at 09:00 AM
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Thank you AzulOscuro

I hope you feel better too soon

Yes, we should always search for the little things in our life that makes us (even if a little) happy, & stick to them however depressed & blue we are. Sometimes, when we keep on doing those little things everyday, it makes our happy times in life a little more often...

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Default Jan 22, 2015 at 09:11 AM
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I felt really bad yesterday but I felt better when I hugged my doggie Miky.
I also want to put the stress on something I read here: I'm not a gregary, of course, but I feel good when I do things for others.

My last therapist told me "try to put a smile, even when you don't feel like, you will see as other people give you a positive feedback and you will feel better. With time, the smile will be sincere". I do it every day and it works.
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Azul- what is a gregary?
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I hope I wrote it right, in English.
It can be defined as someone who is very submissive and lack of a strong personality. (S)he compensates those faults by doing things that other people should do.
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these are great.

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Dear AzulOscuro... I'm also feeling very depressed & low these days, but sadly I don't have anybody to hug, 'cause I'm a hermit, & I don't have dogs or cats here with me either

Honestly, I don't know how I'm getting through these days. But definitely the internet is still holding me to this life

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Default Jan 24, 2015 at 10:52 AM
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yes this internet keeps me going,especially this forum, i do go to docs appointments and some family functions and grocery store but it is too much for me to handle so my husband does the shopping.
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It's not so much a way of coping with emotions I guess as more troubling thoughts, but when I'm experiencing distressing thoughts I find reciting number sequences helps to focus the mind, generally either mentally listing prime numbers, or more simply looping over 12345432...
I do something similar. It's hard for me to just dismiss them though. Usually I debate if they hold some truth to them or not. I can never decide, this frustrates me and I begin to repeat some random phrase or do a math pattern. The phrases seem to make it worse, but the math problems help a lot. It requires attention when the numbers get higher so I can't afford to have intrusive thoughts running in the background. I try to do this in my head, but sometimes I end up whispering or holding my ears. Often I rock in place or pinch myself.
When you're going over number sequences, does it ever show externally? Would a random stranger be able to tell?
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