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Isn’t it already?

no, that’s the right one

Not OP but one of my chosen personal values to live my life by is actually literally to make the world a weirder place.

(sorry to advertise my comm here but this fits the post of the week and I like to think promoting a mental health comm is for a good cause)

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I find it helpful to think of it like emotional asthma. She’s a little wheezy right now. She should probably take things a little easier. She might need a puff of her “inhaler” (although if she does have rescue meds for mental health it’s probably a pill) but ultimately that’s her private business. She’s not doing her best but that also doesn’t necessarily mean she needs to be committed or even necessarily inpatient. Suicidal ideation can absolutely be managed outpatient in a lot of cases as long as there’s no active plan / intent and there’s a solid safety plan in place.

In fact if you’re interested in learning more about safety planning and other things you can personally do to manage your own mental health you should come join us over at !DIYMentalHealth@lemmy.dbzer0.com We also have a wiki that specifically includes a page on safety planning!

this comment is the best understanding of the concepts thus far

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As a night shift Psych nurse basically my entire job is re-tuning people’s circadian rhythms. For this specific situation I recommend getting used to sleeping to a loud white noise with a fair amount of variation in pitches / “texture” I guess? The more different noises it has the better it covers random environmental noises.

My go-to is usually a raging thunderstorm with lots of lightning cracks and rumbling thunder. There’s very few things that doesn’t drown out and it should only take a week or two to get used to sleeping to whatever soundtrack you pick (think about how long it takes to get used to sleeping somewhere new when you move).

For extra oomph it can help to bring in your other senses as well. Essential oils may not cure cancer but they make excellent Pavlovian conditioning cues.

Remember kids, the biggest difference between you and Pavlov’s dogs is that you get to choose what you get trained to do!

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So one of the things that’s super relevant to the self-soothe skill is pavlovian / classical conditioning. Basically your body gets used to drinking tea when you’re calm, so if you occasionally drink it when you’re not calm your body will be like “wait we’re doing the thing we do when we’re calm though? I’m probably supposed to be calm then.”

It could also have an ingredient that’s mildly sedating or if you have ADHD it’s caffeinated sometimes it can help you focus, which can reduce agitation. Some people will even say caffeine helps them sleep and while it can help you focus on falling asleep it will still reduce overall sleep quality (there’s other, better ADHD meds that can be used around bedtime for that reason).

So there are other reasons it might be helping you, but classical pavlovian conditioning is a common mechanism and a lot of behavioral therapies include teaching on how to exploit for your own benefit. I’m super excited to talk about this because spreading info on these specific sort of topics is exactly why I made this community!

Oh and here’s my weeks’ mood log:

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Those last couple worknights suuucked and I’m really trying to double down on my PLEASE and self-soothe this week (good timing!)

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Fun fact! PLEASE is an actual skill in Dialectal Behavior Therapy and we’ll probably be covering it within the next couple months over on !DIYMentalHealth@lemmy.dbzer0.com. Please subscribe and get active if you’re looking to improve your mental health lately! The main page of our wiki has a quickstart guide if you’re looking for something you could even do today to help stabilize yourself a little.

!DIYMentalHealth@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I’m trying to start a mental health support community that’s skills based to hopefully help people who can’t afford or otherwise access professional therapy.

Here’s the wiki (the main page has a quickstart guide if you’re looking for some things you can do today even just to maybe help stabilize yourself a little)

Here’s a specific list of ways you can get involved with growing this community

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nope, but even if I had my long term plan is a complete rotating cycle.

Learning effectiveness was arguably the skill that had the most meaningful effect on my BPD. Learning to pick my battles was huge for me.

0/7 this week. I need to find a good app. If I knew how to program more I’d make one specifically for this sub where you could copy and share the week literally like a wordle but that’s for a future me who knows how to do stuff like that!