What do you do when you feel your mental health slipping?

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I’m just curious about what you all do to cope during difficult stretches besides therapy or medications (they’re a given!).

Lock myself in the apartament (balcony if the weather is nice) alone, avoiding human contact.
I can't completely avoid human contact because of my family responsibilities but I do as little as possible.
Hanging up on WP, solving jigsaw puzzles, playing logic games, reading on my last casual special interest - Permian tetrapods. Listening to my special music, the songs that make me cry. Sometimes dancing to myself. Wrapping myself in a cozy, fluffy blanket.
Sleeping more with help from pills.

Watching traffic on a Cameroonian highway via YouTube.

I try to be kinder to myself, to balance out the building negativity. I do some things I enjoy, baths, massage, being outdoors being with animals, more so of late I've been considering returning to yoga to help with mind body regulation.

Once i recognise what is happening it can feel like I've been hijacked or manipulated by something inside of me, so I tend to be distrustful of my emotions, as I'm not myself. I rely on rational thought as much as possible, though that also becomes unreliable if the anxiety/depression really takes hold. At this point I need to rely on others to 'reality test' as Kraftiekortie (Hi there) would say.

When my working memory starts to decline I'll go to the doctor as a minimum, and if i have the funds I'll organise yet more therapy.

I'm starting to recognise that I've stored physical memories in my sympathetic nervous system, as I have unresolved traumas that typical talk therapy and medication can remedy temporarily but not completely rectify.

These physical sensations are triggered quite easily it seems and as I understand it now seem linked to the anxiety=depression cycles I go through.
Mentally I might be in a good place, but spiral significantly when unrelated small issues trigger these physical memories.

I think its possible that people especially undiagnosed adults on the spectrum will have a higher than average share of these physical memories.

I take time for myself, doing things I find enjoyable like reading or just sleeping lol

My primary thing is to spend time with my animals.This also often includes some kind of physical activity. Play with them, walk with them, do maintenance on their stuff, groom them etc. I always feel better after being with my horse for awhile and unlike with my cats, she gets me outside

Listening to music that articulates how I am feeling.

hard sweaty work out in the yard. when i was young i'd run for hours then swim laps for hours until i was too exhausted to think or feel anything. then i'd sleep the sleep of seeming death.

Eating

Stim

Withdraw