Body sensations

Hello Tamara. It's a good thing that you've got your diagnoses and I hope you can get the treatment you need for each. I'm really bad ar coping mechanisms, but lately I've had to give them more practice. For the past two months I've been listening to rain sounds with or without my earphones, but especially with my earphones. Unless I'm at work, I'm almost always listening to it. It helps to calm my thoughts, block out the sounds around me on the train, or even the traffic outside my apartment. It also really helps me to sleep. I journal a lot. My therapist told me to keep two journals: one for messy thoughts and one for gratefulness. I write more in the messy ones. It helps a lot in the nights when my low periods are worse. I listen to podcasts and programmes on YouTube (medcircle channel) and they've helped me understand more. For example, to challenge negative thoughts by saying "this is a thought and not a fact." I really never thought any of this would work, but I've gotten to a desperate point to try and it has been helping since I started a week ago. Medication helped me a lot earlier this year and I've recently started again. It helps me with the anxious obsessive thoughts and gets me out of bed to do the things that I need to do to function. But I have to be honest that some days nothing works. Some days seem wasted and others I barely just show up so that I can get paid for work. I'll keep the phone next to me at times and dial my sister or someone else in my support circle. They'll stay on the line in silence if I'm crying or talk to me until I get out of bed and eat or shower. Every once in a while you'll find new or better methods to help you. I really hope you can have some amount of peace and comfort soon.