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blackeyed-daisy · 9 days ago

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okay genuine question @ mentally unwell people of Tumblr do you have any spare coping/emotional regulation skills I can borrow

because literally none of the therapists I've had have ever actually told me anything helpful. I can't distract myself because the thoughts/feelings are still there regardless of what I do and are genuinely all-encompassing. and I can't do anything physiological like deep breathing/tipps/whatever because I never feel anything physical whenever I'm upset. and I can't just reframe anything because all my thoughts/feelings are in response to real things that are really happening and really being said and not just "cognitive distortions." and stuff like journaling just makes me feel actively worse. but that's all therapists tell me to do and they never believe me when I tell them it doesn't work so does anypony out there have advice. please

#self post #vent #kind of bc im mad at therapy as an institution #but rly any input from anybody... please....#i vant look up coping skills myself because every time i try i just see the same handful of ineffective skills over and over again #and just get so upset and frustrated that i genuinely cant function for the rest of the day or at least the next few hours #(probably because none of my therapists ever did their fucking jobs and gave me the coping/regulation skills ive been begging for lol)#i dont even know what i could tag this as to get genuine input #i guess ill come back later once i trawl thru all the mental illness related hashtags #mental health #mental illness #autism #< added because theres what i think is a strong possibility i might have it #ocd #< added because while Im not sure i have ocd i feel like my thoughts/feelings might be persistent enough for ocd-related things to be useful #im sorry to people in the autism/ocd tags if youre annoyed by this but i literally cant ask peofessionals #and i dont know where else to look that wont either waste time or potentially upset me super bad due to Fucked In The Head Disorder

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