I Want to Share Coping Strategies and Techniques

One of my favorite coping strategies for chronic pain is distraction. For distraction to really work, you have to find something that you get completely and totally mentally involved in. My distraction is video games. When I'm in a lot...

When you are stressed and feel that you can't cope with things, write down exactly what is on your mind, as if you are talking to yourself, so write it in first person. Then pretend someone you love is telling you that that is their...

There are so many benefits to exercise in general... health, sense of accomplishment, RELAXATION.....
 
Something that I call 'focused exercising', is a fantastic help for me with my anxiety.  It's my meditation - and for...

Sometimes I cut. But i try not to do that anymore. I'm not your average anything. Anyone. Anywho... My therapy used to be all about trying new coping mechanisms. I've come across a couple good ones. And when I say good, I mean that they...

I have started this group, with the intention of sharing coping and management skills/ideas/techniques/strategies for a variety of issues that affect me, but also (after observation), it seems, a lot of others here at EP.
I have found...

My therapist gave me a card with these tips to help me cope with anxiety and panic:

1. Remember, feelings of panic are just exaggerations of normal bodily stress reactions.

2. Sensations are neither harmful nor dangerous - just...

When I was a kid, the television was always on in my house.  My mom had a hearing problem... it gave me a reading problem.  Deeply enamoured by the good book, I learned to suppress the blinding noise from my mind. ...

My Understanding of Controlled Breathing, is that, it is Diaphragmic, Slow, 'controlled' and Mindful Breathing - which is especially good for Anxiety, Panic and Stress.... but is also the gateway to a lot of other relaxation techniques...

What is pacing and why is it relevant?
It's one of the hardest things to do, but the most freeing thing you can do, when you suffer from Chronic Pain.
when we are injured, hurt and in Acute Pain - we limp, we guard and protect our...

If you are like thousands of other commuters, staying in Orange County and doing the daily commute to LA downtown, or further, you may be setting yourself up to some serious back issues.
Especially in Southern California, we are almost...

I learned this technique at at the Pain Management Centre.  It is especially good with reducing muscle tension and pain when walking.  It apparantly is also a technique that is used on forced marches in the millitary, to help...

I'm going to attempt to explain 'how' to pace....  I previously wrote Pacing introduction, to explain the reasoning behind pacing, now is the practical....
 
To pace, is to take the necessary time, YOU need, to complete a...