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@outlander

i know its hard but maybe if you could just muster a little bit of energy to try these???

sometimes i use these

Self-Harm Avoidance Techniques

T – Change your body temperature to change your autonomic nervous system (the part of your body that handles unconscious functions like breathing and heart rate)

• Take advantage of your dive reflex, seen when you dive into cold water. Hold your breath and submerge your face into ice water or hold cold packs up to your face. It’s important that you get the eye socket area and under the eye cold.
• Warm your body to relax. Soak in a warm bath or put your feet in hot water.

I – Intensely exercise to calm down a body revved up by stress and emotions.

• Engage in intense exercise even if only for a short time
• Expend your body’s pent up energy and strength by running, walking fast, walking up stairs, playing basketball, weightlifting, etc.

P – Progressively relax your muscles. (There are many relaxation and meditation techniques that work to do this.)

• Starting with your hands and moving to your forearms, upper arms, shoulders, neck, forehead, eyes, cheeks and lips, tongue and teeth, chest, upper back, stomach, buttocks, thighs, calves, ankles and feet – tense for 10 seconds the relax each muscle and move onto the next.

Putting Self-Harm Avoidance Techniques into Practice

Only you can stop your own self-harm. You have to trust that some of these techniques are going to work for you but you have to actually do them for them to work. You have to want to stop your self-harm. You have toreach out to others. You have to get help. You can stop self-harming, but you have to do the work to make it happen.

Hi @outlander

It's Arie here. I'm sorry that you are going through this pain.

When you have felt like this in the past what positive strategies have you found assist in reducing the discomfort? @mudsum has made a few great suggetions, have you tried or do you think you might try any of these strategies?

Sometimes by reflecting on what we have done before to get through difficult moments, we can determine what may, or may not be helpfu in this moment

I can hear how difficult this is for you right now.

Sometimes when your body is aching it can be helpful to have a warm shower, encourage your muscles and body to relax a little. Use this time to engage your senses... use strongly scented body wash, a exfoliating scrub/ glove, and wrap yourself firmly in a soft towel. This can all help to calm your nervous system which will assist you to regulate.