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    Default What do you do to numb the pain and escape your emotions?

    Just curious what you all do?
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    do you want real answers or lets pretend we're all happy healthy people answers?

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    I deal with them and the ones that I can't fix or do shit about, I don't concern myself with them.
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    Default Re: What do you do to numb the pain and escape your emotions?

    LOL, well I was about to post a poll but something happened..... lol

    I guess I'll start.....I shop. I hide my emotions and bury them deep inside me and put up a wall and shut people out. Then I go buy things.
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    I immerse myself in tasks. Fix something, build something, research how to fix something. I iz handyguy.


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    I take an SSRI that is pretty good at numbing things. I also avoid dealing with things.

    The SSRI is prescribed for an anxiety disorder that I have so I'm not self medicating but I'm dependant/addicted to it.
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    Exercise.

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    sleep or stay in bed all day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by renaissance View Post
    LOL, well I was about to post a poll but something happened..... lol

    I guess I'll start.....I shop. I hide my emotions and bury them deep inside me and put up a wall and shut people out. Then I go buy things.
    How does shopping help?

    I ask because I just say a True Life: I'm a compulsive shopper and it was actually REALLY sad. I never thought of it as a real addiction before, but that sold me. I'm not saying your addicted or compulsive but y'all both do it to feel better. I jsut want to know what about shopping specifically does that.

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    Weed, writing, friends

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    Quote Originally Posted by britt244 View Post
    do you want real answers or lets pretend we're all happy healthy people answers?
    My first thought exactly!

    I could tell you what I do, but I'd have the PC brigade on me like white on rice.
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    A combo of curling up in bed, relaxing by reading/watching shows or movies I love/lounging in the pool,etc...and pills(prescribed for actual emotional and chronic pain conditions..not to get high)

    Plus I vent to my friends...that helps.

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    I used use SI to cope. Now I find myself using a series of things. Binging, excessive cleaning, excessive working out. I try to shut them up...but I've learned some new coping methods in DBT that has helped A LOT. Mostly I talk about my problems and it really helps.
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    try to work them out and vent to friends.....and SLEEP!

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    This is going to sound really weird but I have tons of picture of little girls on my computer in pretty princess dresses and I look at the pictures escape into my little girl fantasy world where I don't have to deal with grown-up issues.

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    Denial, self-destruction, and hermit-hood are my natural coping mechanisms but I try to beat them by getting out of the house, reading/writing, and doing productive things.

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    Default Re: What do you do to numb the pain and escape your emotions?

    when i'm alone binging and purging takes my mind off things for a while. Then of course i feel even worse.
    I have been learning to reach out to other people. A big hug from my bf works much better.
    I have to say that nothing can distract me from my lows from depression. Thankfully my mood has stabilised after a long course of AD's, but i dread that feeling,that absoute rock bottom feeling of despair that even death doesn't seem like a relief *takes off emo hat*.
    If anyone has tips for that i would love to hear them.
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    depends on the emotion...
    anger - beat the shit out of a pillow. (side note: i reaallly want to pu a crappy couch at the thift store to destroy when im angry yes im weird - but- my weirdness dossnt harm anything lving!)
    event caused depression- i too shop. theres just something theraputic about it and bringing something new into your life. i also sleep, eat sweets, watch movies all day, or masturbate. ive started taking sam-e to see if it will help.
    chemical depression- much of the same except i try to stay busy constantly so i have no time to think.
    giddy- my bcp fucks with my emotions and sometimes makes me ridiculously high type happy which is not my chosen feeling/state of mind (does that make sense?) think stepford wives. anyways i dont like it. i usually try to work like crazy because in this emotional state i can hustle asshat customers and deal with their bs without it affecting my state of mind.

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    sleep or eat, usually a combination of both.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sveta View Post
    I could tell you what I do, but I'd have the PC brigade on me like white on rice.
    Me too. Sooo....yeah, I'm a headcase and I do weird shit.

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    ...and SLEEP!
    Yeah..this helps too...when I can.Though lack of it is one of my problems

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    I used to smoke a lot of pot and do yummy hallucinogenic drugs like mushrooms and acid. I even drank a lot for a short period. That didn't help.
    But in the end, therapy and a good healthy relationship. Now when I have a problem, I either talk it over in therapy, take a bath, cry it out, or tell a good friend/my boyfriend.

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    eat sleep and watch tons of trash tv

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    Sleep. Take sleeping pills to sleep more.
    Read voraciously to pretend I'm somewhere else. Then sleep because the book is over and I'm still here.

    Occasionally shop. But I suffer from buyer's guilt.



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    I shop. Nothing crazy, usually just $100 pair of jeans or a shirt. Sometimes a bunch of small shit at Target. Or Bath & Body Works. Or expensive perfume. Or makeup. It doesn't really make anything better, it just gets my mind off things, and then I have cute clothes (that I have nowhere to put as I'm completely out of closet and dresser space.

    Anywho ....2 weekends ago was my worst ever. I really don't even know why...I was just blah. I spent $220 at Ulta, $150 at Macy's and then like $100 at Target. I usually keep it in check and feel satisfied after $100.






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