Healing

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We've all been hurt and we're all trying to cope, so I felt it necessary to make an all-purpose healing thread. Discuss your coping methods, send love and well-wishes to users who are struggling, remind yourselves all of how far you've come and how resilient you've had to be to make it this far. And since life can sometimes seem joyles, let us all celebrate our collective abilities to overcome that which hinders and threatens to overwhelm us!

To me, one of the best healing methods is to do things for other people just for the heck of it.

Also: doing things that you really enjoy. I really enjoy watching old baseball games on YouTube.

When I feel too complex psychologically, I tend to feel lots of cobwebs in my head. This is why I like to "simplify" things. It's akin to having too much clutter in your home. Get rid of the emotional clutter.

I cope by waking up every day, if even reluctantly. I want to die nearly everyday for months. But I still somehow manage to get to work everyday and tread water in ife things. The bitterness of being more lonely than I ever have in my entire life is hard and nearly impossible to stay motivated thru. But I still am clinging on. So i guess thats coping.

Healing is a dream I fear lll never live

I go along the avenues of prayer and reading God's word. I also use guided meditations on youtube like
1. Letting go
2. Forgiveness
3. Releasing Anger
4. Mindfulness
5. Inner-Peace

When something is bothering me, keeping it stuffed down is not helpful. I find it helps to talk about it somewhere. Those who know me well here at WP have seen me write about troubles I am having. I'm not always looking for support, sometimes I just need to admit, and express, the trouble. In other words, admitting I am having a hard time coping is in itself a form of coping.

After getting something off my chest like that, I feel freed to be happy and relaxed again. I hope my sharing this helps someone.

Simply hanging in their is certainly a form of coping, a very effective one even. It can be all to easy to just give up, to act recklessly or ignore certain details and just "let go". Hanging on to stability and structure in one's life can be invaluable in at least keeping one tethered, as I call it, long enough for them to find a way to turn things around for the better.

I have a mantra for myself, "no earthly worries" - repeat as needed. I tell myself that heaven is waiting just on the other side of the veil, that I will be there soon, no worries.

I've gone from near-constant depression with moments of happiness to near-constant contentedness with seasonal depression. Most of it was getting myself out of the situations that worsened my depression. It's a very complicated story, but the point is, here are some things that helped me:
*Coloring books
*Pets
*Going for a walk, weather permitting
*Finding a hygiene routine that works for me
*Saving a playlist of funny videos on YouTube (also useful for panic attacks)
*Learning new skills
*Celebrating small victories, within reason
*Listening to sad music and crying or listening to angry music and punching pillows
*Spiritual practices like prayer and reading the Bible

what got me through an especially desolate time [in the army back in the 80s] was running myself ragged, literally- running at top speed around a golf course, then swimming a mile of laps afterwards. I was so wore out I couldn't think of anything else.

Hmm, maybe another variation also: will this even matter next week? Next month? Next year? Five years from now? ETC. Just to put real concerns versus immediate worries/annoyances.

I also like your exercise suggestion. When I don't feel motivated to exercise, I'll remember your words, and the contentedly tired, accomplished feeling that comes after intense exercise.