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Anxiety Coping Skills!

I’m gonna share a few of my various coping skills that have personally helped me or a loved one of mine with anxiety! Feel free to add on if you’d like, and also please use them if you want! i love you !

i’ve used my phone as a way to help me kind of distract myself from my thoughts and irrational fears (shift your focus)

played with sensory objects

be mindful

deep breathing

what’s the worst/best/realistic

journaling

yoga

meditation

affirmations

going for a walk

music

vent to a friend or loved one

ask a trusted adult for advice/guidance

ask for reassurance

draw/color

brain dump

clean

re organize something (binder, closet, bookshelf, etc)

call a loved one

hot coco!!

play with a pet

anxiety jar

tumblr positivity tag

take a bath and meditate in there

cry

art projects!

think of your anxiety as a learning experience and a cool challenge that you can overcome! then reward yourself !!

celebrate baby steps

forgive yourself

know your limits and respect them

take breaks

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Do's and Don't's for helping someone through a PTSD flashback!

So personally I have PTSD. Everyone has different coping skills and ways of getting through their flashbacks, and these are some of the things that help me, personally. Feel free to add anything you think night be helpful and feel free to reblog to help those who also struggle with this horrible mental illness.

DO’s: *separate the person from a large group. Large groups personally make everything worse. Get them to a quiet, secluded area as quickly and as quietly as you can, it will decrease anxiety so fast.

*give the person an ice cube to hold. The cold is painful enough that it brings the oersons senses back to reality and out of their flashback, but it isn’t too damaging.

*talk to the person,if they are willing, about what they are seeing. Remind that person in soft and quiet tones that you are not their abuser, and that they are safe.

*ask for permission before you touch them!!! Personally if someone I don’t know touches me when I’m having a flashback I get so much worse. If I haven’t given you permission to touch me DO NOT DO IT!

*give the person a distraction. Be it a quiet cartoon, soft classical music. Something calming and not too overstimulating.

DON’T’S

*DON’T speak in a loud voice. This makes us think you are angry, or upset that we are having an episode. It will make an even worse and I will find the closest thing to hide under.

*DON’T raise your hands or move too quickly. My biggest fear during an episode is that I’m going to be hit so seeing raised arms or fast movements will scare me really badly.

*DON’T tell the person that it’s all in their head. This is not only redundant but it makes us feel even stupider and more vulnerable.

*DON’T panic yourself. I know that helping us through our episode can be stressful but please do not panic. It will set us off even harder. I feel more vulnerable and susceptible to others emotions and if you panic, I will too.

Just some useful stuff that personally helps me. As I said feel free to add to this or reblog it to maybe help someone else. C:

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A perpetual spell to cope with intrusive thoughts

Thanks to severe OCD and PTSD, I’m often stuck in my own head with a bunch of intrusive and obsessive nonsense. I came up with a perpetual banishing and transmutation spell to help process and deal with unwanted thoughts.

The Banishing Bin functions somewhat like a computer’s recycle bin:

write unwanted thought/feeling on a sticky note or piece of small paper

draw banishing/transmutation sigil over words

fold up paper and throw in banishing bin 

burn/rip/trash them during the waning crescent or dark moon

This is a great spell if you’re a spoonie or not open about your craft. It’s fairly easy to perform and store without raising eyebrows (it literally just sits on my bookcase unsuspiciously). I found the mini trashcan at a local discount store for a couple dollars. The cheapest one I can find online can be purchased from Amazon here, but you can use any container you like as a bin. If you don’t have a banishing sigil you’re already working with, feel free to use mine. 

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A lot is changing and I couldn’t be more happy this life is full of surprises

[atransgirlslife-blog]

Hello loves, my name is Aurora. I am a trans woman, if you aren’t sure what that means it means I was assigned male at birth and have transitioned to be a woman. Some trans people choose not to have surgeries, I am not one of them. I am proud to say that by June 2019 I will have gotten all three life changing surgeries to finally live my life the way I want to. As of June 26th, 2018 I have had bottom surgery (full depth vaginoplasty) in San Francisco, California. There is an amazing team of doctors that work for kaiser Northern California that preformed the surgery! It was an intensive 7 and a half hour surgery. I stayed in the hospital for 7 days after surgery and had an amazing experience. I think it was the third day in the hospital when I realized my disphoria was better for the first time I felt right in my skin and it felt amazing! I spent that week with my support team and our bonds grew stronger, my mother and I were close before but now I feel more confident and comfortable around her. She said something a week or so later along the lines of I’m happy to have you back… that hit me I had been hiding myself for so long and now I could finally be free. Healing is going well I’m one month and one week post op, life’s getting back to normal. Dilation is tolerable and the pain is subsiding. I’ll be posting pictures from the hospital follow @atransgirlslife for more

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THIS NEW GENERATION IS LOOKING WOKER THAN US

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There’s like… so much going on in this picture lmao.

This pic is chaos, madness.

I love it.

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Thisade my fucking morning holy shit

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Enough said

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black power fists

kids kneeling 

hands behind their backs

i fear for our immediate future

but the i believe in the next generation

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Yaaasss!!

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Are we not gonna mention the cute lil gay couple on the left?

[transstudent]

Here’s a great comic by Melanie Gillman speaking on their experience as non-binary. Check out their blog!

http://othersideanthology.com

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She’s so broke

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im not even gonna ask who bc i already know its me

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I always feel at home in the water happy summers is almost over. 🌞🍁🍂🍃

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Went to the ocean with my love

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New under cut I'm in love

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