News of Coping Methods & Techniques

Hi guys,I created a 7 minute guided meditation video for self help.I uploaded it in YouTube.

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I had started to practise a Being present exercise daily for my dissociative symptoms.This thing works like wonder and in the book it says the first step is learning to present.And everydayI try it.Each day I am getting more awareness about internal experiances and also I can sense some of my Feelings that belong to some go my parts.And that was a good feeling like a torch light was placed inside my mind.even though most ...

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My brother wants to throw me out of the house my dad lives in;as do i.to supposedly take care of him. Which theirs no one to watch him at all. He wants me in a halfway house cause I have PTSD/DID. Or multiple personality. I got this from my family growing up, and no one caring what happened to me. I'm scared I won't get my pills I need, or have them stolen. I'm not ...

I was wondering if anyone could help me on this. My counselor wants me to work on therapeutic visualization as a coping technique for my OCD and anxiety. Since I'm heavily into anime, she suggested I incorporate that into my 'place'. Let me explain: Basically she talked me through a visualization of a peaceful meadow, trying to get me to calm myself down. You know, the typical laying in the grass, hearing birds chirp, that ...

Lists direct ways of coping with ptsd symptoms in the full article:

https://www.ptsd.va.gov/gethelp/coping_ ... ctions.asp

Hi all,

I'm a 27 year old gay male and I've been dating someone who claims to be bisexual for about a year now. I've done a lot of personal growth over the past couple months, in particular to facing a lot of the shame I grew up with about being gay and all the implications that has had on my development as an adult.

Fortunately, I've been able to answer a lot of questions ...

I have an appointment with a psychiatrist on August 6th, and I think it should go without saying that I'm nervous af. What should I do to help myself relax and not be scared?

To begin, I'm new to this forum and new to the understanding that I do not have control over my anxiety. At 46, I'm also realizing I've secretly dealt with issues my whole life that aren't normal (and that they're probably related to my anxiety issues). Since grade school, I have had periods where I've dealt with pica, excoriation, stealthily counting/drumming patterns with my fingers and feet... but nothing compares to the earworms.

When I ...

Hi all,my name is Neo but you can call me Neo for short...heh.But let’s get to the point.

For the longest time I’ve been bottling up all my emotions and now I don’t think I can let them out,I’ve tried countless times to make myself cry to let out my emotions but at this point they’re just building up and I don’t know how to let them out,to the point where I feel like I’ll ...