Dont Let The World Tell You Who You Are.

You tell it.

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Focus On Making Yourself The Person You Strive To Be By Your Actions, And Use Your Thoughts As Tools. Not As A Place To Live

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Over Thinking 🙃

Thoughts. They’re great. They lead us to be creative. To create. To give. To express our inner selves. To love. To move. To be alive.

But thoughts are just thoughts until expressed, you know¿

They are not seen by others.

They also are not something you can see, or prove.

They can even happen when we don’t want them to.

That’s sometimes the biggest fear of what makes a thought, a thought. The fact that it’s uncontrollable. But there is also the fact that we have the ability to decide what we want to do with them.

Actions make us the people we are, not our thoughts.

Focus on the things you do. The things you say. The places you go, and the real things that matter.

Focus on making yourself the person you strive to be by your actions, and use your thoughts as tools. Not as a place to live

[recoveringalaska]

Here are some helpful links and sites to help you cope with dissociation. It is by no means complete, because that wouldn’t be possible, but if you know something that you think should really be in this post, feel free to message me. :)

General Information

What is dissociation?

Dissociation explained

Dissociative Disorders

Symptoms & Facts

Dissociative Disorder Fact Sheet

Helplines / Hotlines

Clinic for dissociative studies

Mind / MindInfoline: 08457660163

Positive outcomes for dissociative disorders / PODS helpline: 08001814420

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Related Disorders

Hallucinations

Schizophrenia

Non-epileptic seizures

Coping Tips

Ideas for coping with dissociation

Top 21 grounding techniques

Progressive Muscle Relaxiation

Emotional beggage check

Finding escape through art: Grounding techniques

More grounding techniques

Make a grounding box

Distractions

Silk

2048

Planetarium

Color game

Imagination

Virtual piano

[fuckfuckfuckdissociation]

Reminder

It’s okay. It’s okay to not feel like yourself sometimes. It’s okay to feel like things may not be real. It’s okay to feel confused about time. It’s okay to feel disconnected from yourself or reality. It’s okay to feel all that, but I have to remind you that those are just feelings. It’s real. You’re real.

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You are safe. You are not in immediate danger. I know.. Your body tells you otherwise. You can’t breath right now. Your pupils are dilated Things aren’t crisp like they were before You feel off. I know. But you’ve felt this way before, and you are still here. They are emotions. Anxiety. A chemical in your brain that cause actual symptoms to form. But guess what? You’re alive. And you’ve been alive. This didn’t kill you before And it won’t kill you now. This chemical in your brain causes you to feel in immediate danger. Life or Death survival kicks in, and it does a lot of things to distort reality awhile. But if anything, don’t fear an anxiety attack. It’s a normal human sensation to feel emotions. You are just experiencing an overload of them. Stay strong. Stay loving. Stay in the moment friend.

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💞

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Derealization, Make Yourself Aware

Make yourself aware of triggers. Realize it can be flared up. Even In a constant state, I have discovered certain situations I find myself bored or uninvolved in, can really intensify my symptoms. After all, I think of Derealization as an emergency deploy. An escape. Something that naturally happens in your brain to protect itself from a current situation or emotion to avoid damage. It removes you from it mentally And for me, continuing to be in a situation that is unappealing to me, furthers my mind to want to remove itself. Know when you are getting worsened symptoms aside from underlying ones, and change your surroundings. Change the topic. Change your clothes. Put cold water on your hands, your face. Something, Anything to bring you back to the moment. To your life. Do it because you know you deserve to live the present moment. In your present life. The one you have a choice in

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The Negative In This World Has A Way Of Taking Care Of Itself. It's Up To You To Create The Positive

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Why Must We Always Know What Moment We Are In To Enjoy It

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*Goes To Dinner* Waitress Asks If You'd Care To Enjoy Anything From The Bar. Normal Response "Sure"; "No Thank You" Me: Nah. I've Literally Been Drunk For The Past 8 Months, But I'm Good Life With Derealization🙋🏼

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When They Tell You They’re High On Life -Translation To A Derealizationer: “It’s More Of A Drunk Feeling If I Do Say So Myself”

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Advice To My Former Self: Find A Healthy Way To Deal With Emotions. Be Honest With Yourself, And Who You Are. Bottling Up Emotions Does More Harm To Yourself Than You Could Have Ever Imagined. But We All Make Mistakes, And I Don't Blame You. We've Come A Long Way, And We Will Keep Going ❤️

[keepon-creepingon]

It’s not that I don’t feel the pain it’s just I’m not afraid of hurting anymore.

Last Hope, Paramore (via keepon-creepingon)

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One day you will look back and thank yourself for finally making the decision to get better.

(via broken-and-recovering)

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Why Only Be Good Things? Suck At Them Instead

Why Do We Gravitate Only To The Things We Are Already Good At? Solely Build Upon Those Things. What If Our True Satisfaction Was Actually Becoming Good At The Things We Weren't. The Things We Cringed At In Defeat. The Things We Never Explored. These Things Would Build More Than Just Another Skill The End Result Might Make You Surprised. That The Self Satisfaction And Confidence It Took To Concur It, Was Enough To Spark An Interest You Never Saw Before. A New Path. A Great One

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

10 Things your should give up to be happy

1. Give up your need to always be right.

2. Give up your need for control.

3. Give up blame.

4. Give up your self-defeating self-talk, and your limiting beliefs.

5. Give up complaining.

6. Give up your need to impress others.

7. Give up your resistance to change.

8. Give up your fears.

9. Give up your excuses.

10. Give up on living your life to fit other peoples’ expectations.

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You Know, When Your Friend Is Down About Themselves, You Never Let Them Keep Talking. You Give Them A Pep Talk And Spill Out Every Positive You Can Until They Are Nodding In Agreement? Why Aren’t You That Friend To Yourself…

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You are safe. You are not in immediate danger. I know.. Your body tells you otherwise. You can’t breath right now. Your pupils are dilated Things aren’t crisp like they were before You feel off. I know. But you’ve felt this way before, and you are still here. They are emotions. Anxiety. A chemical in your brain that cause actual symptoms to form. But guess what? You’re alive. And you’ve been alive. This didn’t kill you before And it won’t kill you now. This chemical in your brain causes you to feel in immediate danger. Life or Death survival kicks in, and it does a lot of things to distort reality awhile. But if anything, don’t fear an anxiety attack. It’s a normal human sensation to feel emotions. You are just experiencing an overload of them. Stay strong. Stay loving. Stay in the moment friend.