Coping Skills

Talk to my few friends, listen to music, watch tv or a movie, bake or even shop. Babysitting helps too, cause it takes mt mind off problems going on for a bit

I scream and yell and in a few mins. all is well. I don't have serious problems...so it's easy to cope.

Glad your meds help you ok - I just try to ride through my anxieties or take my mind off them through other activity - writing them out can be a cathartic purging too

It is fantastic to find coping skills that work for you. I normally don't need them because when something starts to get me down I go to the beach and take a swim.

I talk it over with mybetter half and sometime my family

Nice to have your little chemical friend. But what helps me to cope with lots of stuff is ... to be active doing lots of stuff and meeting people. That drags your mind out of problems.

The social skills we try to teach the kids at school are known as the Zones of Regulation. It helps to know and label what you are feeling. We have breathing skills we teach the kids and help them make a "tool kit" of activities that work for them. You can be in the blue zone, where you are down or ill, or the yellow zone where you are feeling uptight and on edge or the red zone where you are out of control in some way. The goal is to get to the green zone where you are calm, ready to learn or play and managing your feelings in an expected and acceptable way. There are no wrong zones, they just need to be managed for us to be happy. Some of the kids are soothed by spraying and wiping down counters or by having a meaningful activity or listening to a story or music. I know I get stressed out when I cannot get to my computer enough.I know that getting even a small corner organized really boosts my feelings.

The best way I cope is finding ways to take my mind off of the things that are bothering me. I try to avert my attention to where it's needed most. I think for me the most difficult thing was learning that there are things in my life I can't control and even though that doesn't take the stress away I have learned to keep moving forward because I can't change it. I also see my therapist which helps some but I still have a difficult time talking about certain issues in my life. I once learned that as long as we keep those things to ourselves and refuse to open up we'll never be able to get over those issues. You have to be able to talk about them to someone. I hate how anxiety can take you down in a moments notice. One minute you can be on the top of the world and then anxiety creeps in and brings you to your knees, it sucks but that's how life is. I don't take medicine for mine because I hate the idea of taking it. I would probably have anxiety over that. Hopefully, you start feeling yourself again, and by that I mean who you are despite your anxiety and depression.

I do not have stress or anything upsetting me since I retired.

I have a tendency to munch on sweets when I have anxiety. I hate this.