What is your go to when the walls feel like they are crumbling around you?

[Ez-Bri-Z]

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For me, I just posted this question and tried to keep my mind occupied so I didn't have to focus on it. Other times I will write or hide under a blanket and listen to thunderstorms.

[ChrisMaster69]

Greatly depends on the intensity of the walls crumbling.
A lot I can manage through walking, music, bizarrely coming on here.

anything more then it’s friends who know I only reach out for certain stuff when it’s needed, but I also do same for them.

if it’s really bad, my best friend that I grew up with, she has been with me from the start and me for her. We might not see each other for 8 months, but we will and have cross the world for each other.

after that..

Blackened skies haunt my dreams,
Nightmares that are just too real.
Droplets of blood
Seeping through my cuts.

1 cut, 2 cuts, 3 cuts and then more
Waiting for your words
To tare me all apart.
Another ****** memory.

Snow white scars line my wrists.
Blood red tears line my cheeks.
Safety pin bandages cover my arms.
Long restless nights of pain.

I don't know what I'm doing,
Scaring my arms and legs.
I don't know what I'm doing,
Hiding away from the world.

I'm a lost cause,
We've known that from the start.
I'm a messed up guy.
That's never going to change.

[Ez-Bri-Z]

*hug*

[ChrisMaster69]

@ez-bri-z hugs, no hiding under the blanket

[Ez-Bri-Z]

It beats the other alternative.

[ChrisMaster69]

@ez-bri-z do not even think about the other alternative, you are not allowed to stand behind the curtains, we have said this before

[Ez-Bri-Z]

But out of the spotlight is best. I want others to shine and just be a supporting staff from behind the scenes

[ChrisMaster69]

@ez-bri-z you shine, or chase th pretty lights

[ChrisMaster69]

@ez-bri-z thank you most appreciated

[TurboKid]

I like adrenaline-pumping things. I don't get to skydive that often even though I have a friend who is an instructor for tandem jumps. But something remotely working towards that is my ultimate stress relief like bungee jumping or, in my specific case, skateboarding on a vert ramp. If I can't do or prepare myself for all such things though, I like rollercoasters.

[TurboKid]

My thinking is that we carry so much needless stress conforming to modern society. You do something that is really dangerous or at least simulates that danger with heart-pumping and adrenaline rushing and you forget about it. You end up relaxed so much after and realize these are trivial things. it gives you a perspective on life when you put it in extreme danger or at least simulate it.

[Ez-Bri-Z]

I do that too, though in my case it is sitting in my room working when suddenly the whole house is quiet. I lean back in the chair and listen but still hear nothing. That's when my heart starts racing because I know that if our kids are being quiet, they are up to something. Last time that happened our daughter ended up looking like Dora the explorer from the hair cuts they gave each other.

[DarkCarousel]

Allowing myself to feel it rather than burying it like I want to. Like other emotions, pain or sadness remind us what we have lived through, or what we have survived. And so I allow myself to experience it.


And when it gets to be unbearable, I use a listing technique to reduce the anxiety and bring me back to the surface.


Say it out loud:

[loves2learn]

Grab my special stuffed animals and hide under my weighted blanket.
.
How are you today?

[Ez-Bri-Z]

I finally had to get one of those myself (didn't really have stuffed animals growing up). Gosh... I was missing so much.

Today started off worse than it ended yesterday honestly. Still here though.

How are you my friend?

[loves2learn]

I’m doing ok. I attached myself to some stuffed animals as a small child as an anxiety coping mechanism I think. But I still can’t sleep without them. Just a quirky thing about me. If I didn’t have them I think I would need sleep meds.

[loves2learn]

https://imgur.com/a/qrHgiSR

[Ez-Bri-Z]

We all have our things. You have stuffed animals, I wear one sock and have to close every door and window around me.

Its fine 🙂

[loves2learn]

❤️❤️❤️ I will admit my poor bunny has seen better days.

[Ez-Bri-Z]

Lol just a bit. It could use some TLC

[loves2learn]

I TLC’d him to death. 🤣

[Ez-Bri-Z]

Lmao I just got my own bunny today in fact

[Ez-Bri-Z]

drive.google.com/.../view?usp=drivesdk

[loves2learn]

Awwww! I LOVE that book!

[Ez-Bri-Z]

Lol not too late to get matching bunnies you know 😁

[Sonorous]

Piano. I notice I play more when I'm stressed and it relieves my anxiety.

[coachTanthony]

-------------Meditation works for me. It calms me down where I can now think straight. A good workout does the same. I would stay away from alcohol or drugs though... they may numb the pain but nothing productive comes from it.

"It's going to be hard but hard doesn't mean impossible."
~Coach T Anthony @thedatecoach IG

[Agape93]

Depends on why and how far I’ve slipped. It be either drinking a few fingers of whiskey to fall asleep for a while, to reaching out when I’m on the edge of oblivion

[Miah02]

Momma's advice. Father's words of encouragement.
They got that magic words that always know how to make me feel better and safe and they always finish it with a hug.

[blindedd]

cry like a bitch then go and read fan fictions.
that or play games.

[Ez-Bri-Z]

Oh hey look, it's me lmao

[blindedd]

a nice cry sesh is a little like therapy

[Ez-Bri-Z]

Pretty much and games get out any last bit of anger. Lol

[beebella]

Listen to music that will make me cry so that the walls are not the only things that are crumbling.

[ChefPapiChulo]

wtf?

[beebella]

Yes..

[ChefPapiChulo]

really?

[beebella]

Mayhaps..

[ChefPapiChulo]

i didn't know you were depressed. i feel bad for making fun of you now.

[beebella]

I'm not depressed. At least I don't think I am, but you should still feel bad.

[ChefPapiChulo]

do you feel bad when you make fun of me?

[beebella]

I don't make fun of you.

[ChefPapiChulo]

super sus

[Gwenhwyfar]

Curl up in bed with a good book or spend time with my boyfriend (or both lol)

[Still-alive]

you got a boyfriend? :O

[ZackBan]

I used to go for a drive but I don't have my car anymore so now I just put on some music

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

You're at the end of your rope and can't take any more, time to step outside take a walk just somewhere to calm down and tell yourself you can do it

[exitseven]

I get in my truck and drive to a place on the ocean that I have been going to since high school.

[Andres77]

Talk to my wife.
Or talk to my mom.
That's all I have... but it's enough.

[Andres77]

My family is traveling now and I'm home, going to work.
If I'm feeling lonely it's beer and a wank and binge watch a favorite show until I fall asleep...

[Feelicks]

A door frame, panic room, bomb shelter or wide open field.

[Still-alive]

listening to music. playing an old video game that brings back memories of an innocent time.

[bannacookies]

I listen to music or an audio book. Or I go outside for a walk if the weather allows

[Likes2drive]

Get in my car and drive down to the beach and take a walk on the boardwalk

[hearvoices]

Usually I go hiking. The outdoors has proven to be good therapy.

[shouldnobetter]

Go out driving around in my car while talking on my CB radio.

[Anonymous]

Good vodka always works might take a double could be half the bottle but it works

[888theGreat]

I never do because I have God as my support.

[Ez-Bri-Z]

I know you and I go back and forth a lot, but not on this one. I'm glad you found your support. I honestly am. I do hope one day that I find my way back to God and find his worshippers more accepting of me this time around. Otherwise, I am going to have to forge the connection on my own.

[PeacefulRainDrop]

Taking a candle lit bubble bath

[PeacefulRainDrop]

I also do alternative nose breathing.

www.healthline.com/.../alternate-nostril-breathing

[Shihab91]

well, the solution might be behind these walls

[NightHawk99]

Get under a table. It's probably an earthquake.

[Furuok]

Start having fun ! At the Y. M. C. A.!

[Luckycharms12]

Work out walk my dog listen to music

[Mamaganja]

RuneScape.

[ItsYoGirlMia]

I pray to God.

[Aakash_Hangargi]

I sleep it off

[krin_m]

A good fiction book.

[CubaPirate]

Music sex and beer

[Anonymous]

heroin.

[SuccessfulHornDog]

Heroin

[Tstrbrainer]

Zzzzzzz 😴😴😴😴