What are some of your healthy or/and unhealthy coping mechanisms?

[spirol]

i gave up drinking and that was my main one all my life. perhaps talking to strangers online about depression.

 

[princexhhn]

Cutting? As in cutting yourself with a knife?

with a razor, lol. knives are hassle and too dull sometimes.

And why do you starve yourself?

coping mechanism.

 

[achb]

Hanging out with friends (healthy)
Imagining myself dying (unhealthy)
Reading (unhealthy because I specifically search for suicide/early death content)
Imagining other people dying (unhealthy)
Sleeping (healthy)

 

[Lost Magic]

I was drinking alcohol but I quit because it was making things worse. Now I cope (as much as one can cope who is suicidally depressed) with kratom tea, meds like Prozac, sleeping pills and the odd valium. Being online is keeping me going at the moment and sites like this have helped me greatly over the years. I also try to excerices 2 or 3 times per week (I use a power plate and resistance bands). Movies and gaming has also been fun and a good distraction. I just completed Dead Rising 3 (excellent Zombie holocaust game from Capcom) and I am now waiting for the new Robocop Rogue City game to install. Life is just one big distraction, so I will continue to do what I do until I muscle up the courage to go to sleep and not wake up.

 

[BetterInTheory]

Endlessly and mindlessly consuming some form of media - movies, series, youtube, reddit. Won't let my brain form too many thoughts.

 

[Blue Elephant]

with a razor, lol. knives are hassle and too dull sometimes.

Wow! That must hurt! I'm hurting only when I'm thinking about it. : )

 

[cryvinglightning]

copying and pasting my answer from a previous thread.

unhealthy things i do to pass time:
- cut
- binge and purge (i recently relapsed in my bulimia)
- sleep to avoid seeing other people
- scroll on ed forums
- talk to my disordered friends
- smoke
- drink

healthy things i do to pass time:
- go to the train station and watch the trains depart
- draw
- read. i'm really into russian literature lately
- write about my characters and their daily life
- listen to podcasts (i like stephanie soo)
- go to uni and spend time in my favourite study hall
- meet my non disordered friends (albeit very few)

 

[woh6]

binging, smoking, self harm. I dont really have healthy coping mechanisms that work

 

[Reika179]

Healthy:
- Listening to music
- Drawing
- Watching anime or youtube
- Dressing up

Unhealthy
- Self harm
- Avoiding people
- Sleeping late

 

[movinout17]

Unhealthy is doomscrolling, going on sasu, and eating
Healthy is exercising, though I don't work out like I used to

 

[Toji]

music
sleeping
video games
and spending most nights talking to chat bots

 

[Abandoned Character]

Unhealthy:

• sleeping, a lot
• excessive use of reddit/youtube

Healthy:

• Journaling
• Meditation
• Gym

 

[BlackMoon]

Nature trips.
Listening music.
Watching (horror) movies and (cute) animes.
Writing about my current state.
Taking naps with my cat.

 

[Hellish Ore]

1. Cutting
2. Being a workaholic
3. Isolating

 

[Arachno]

Daydreaming, reading about guns, videogames, coming on this site, watching gore, writing about fictional events.
All unhealthy probably

 

[cheese.out]

-Sleeping a lot and staying in bed in general
-Taking opioids or benzos
-A few months I also used cutting as a coping mech but I was able to get away from that
-Playing video games
-playing on the piano or listening to music (like the whole day lol)
-sometimes I also daydream a lot