Hello my new friends. I have been responding to discussions in various threads about negative coping skills. I thought maybe a thread for transitioning these negative ones to positive ones may be useful for all to help generate alternatives that we have tried and worked. Let me lay it out for you what I have discussed in prior postings:

Negative Coping I have used

Cutting

Positive Alternatives that I have used

Rub an ice cube over my skin
Snapping a rubber band on my wrist

- Drinking

+ Substitute Fruit Juice and a clonopin
+ Take trazadone and go to bed

- Destroying/Breaking things

+ Clean the refrigerator out
+ Pillow fight with a chair
+ Bouncing a super ball repeatedly

- Smoking

+ taking a walk before I light up
+ Restricting the locations I smoke
+ Cleaning out and washing all the ashtrays in the house


Please post all attempts whether successful or not. It may work for someone!

A success is a try not necessarily stopping the process. Even delaying the negative action is growth in a positive direction. You are conscious of your choice.

Remember the days of just responding to our emotions we couldn't handle because we didn't have them before. Now that some of us are aware and can even identify them - WHAT DO WE DO WITH THEM..... :naughty: