Posted by littleone on October 2, 2006, at 21:18:49
In reply to My Turn, posted by Phillipa on October 1, 2006, at 12:26:04
Hi Phillipa,
I found this book helpful when I was feeling unwell:
"How I stayed alive when my brain was trying to kill me" by Susan Blauner.
There are some quite triggering parts in the book, so I wouldn't recommend reading it for the first time when you're actively feeling unwell. But if you can read through it in between real bad times, then you can mark pages that you think will help when you really need them. Then next time you feel really unwell, you can go straight to those pages for help.
I have a box hidden away at home that contains this book as well as other things I've found on the internet that I think might help talk me out of acting on unwell feelings. It also contains a few things that could help comfort the part that feels unwell. It's smart to have this all together in one place easily retrieved. If you have to go hunting around for it when you feel unwell, you probably wouldn't bother looking.
I'm glad you could see that it's your thought processes hurting you here. That you really don't want to act on those thoughts/feelings. That in itself is a big step forward.
The other thing that helps me is to remember that no feeling lasts forever, you just have to wait it out and it will pass (actually, I might have even learnt this from the book!).
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